Four Boeing Small Diameter Bombs Dropped in Final Development Test

Boeing ^ | August 26, 2005

[Righty_McRight]

Small Diameter Bomb

[vpintheak]

Sweeeeet.

[Redcitizen]

At 71 inches long, this 250-pound class weapon quadruples the number of weapons on each aircraft can carry.

Umm....Grammatical error. Otherwise the rest of the article is right on target.

[Doogle]

..yo Akbar,listen up


Doogle

[andyk]

SDBs loaded on an F-16:

[konaice]

It has a standoff range of 60 nautical miles.

So is this thing powered (rocket) or what? How do you achieve a 60nm standoff of a gravity weapon? That's too far to even see the aircraft in most cases.

Is that a lob trajectory or what?

[Last Dakotan]

How well it work after the Chinese knock out the GPS satellites?

[Enchante]

"It has a standoff range of 60 nautical miles"

Very cool!! Hope Zarqawi gets one of these coming down his chimney or in through his window very soon....!

[Righty_McRight]

GBU-39/B: multipurpose, insensitive, penetrating, blast-fragmentation warhead for stationary targets with deployable wings for extended standoff range

I guess it's a really good glider.

[maestro]

Four Boeing Small Diameter Bombs Dropped in Final Development Test ....THIS IS GREAT NEWS!!!!!

Now,....keep Chinese 'spies' OUT of Boeing,....and Boeing OUT of China!

[drypowder]

It has a standoff range of 60 nautical miles

AWSOME! How do you say "where in the heck did that come from" in Arabic?

[John Jorsett]

So is this thing powered (rocket) or what? How do you achieve a 60nm standoff of a gravity weapon? That's too far to even see the aircraft in most cases.

Is that a lob trajectory or what?

In some of the pictures I've seen, it looks like it has some pop-out wings.

[Righty_McRight]

I think that's a picture of a lockheed martin version. The Boeing SDB also deploys wings though.

[KarlInOhio]

The B-2 will be able to carry up to 216 of them. Sweet, over 200 separate targets with one bomber.

[nuffsenuff]

Okay... So when will the first shipments be ready for Iraq?

[Righty_McRight]

2006

[nuffsenuff]

Can't speed up production?

[Righty_McRight]

A silent swarm swooping in.

[Righty_McRight]

I'm not sure. I just know the first ones are going to be used on F-15E's in 2006. I assume we have some stationed over there.

[tortoise]

How well it work after the Chinese knock out the GPS satellites?

We do not have any GPS guided weapons in our inventory.

However, we have lots of GPS-corrected inertially guided weapons systems -- GPS just reduces the CEP. The idea of 'GPS guided weapons' is a media invented canard that refuses to die. Our weapon designers are not stupid. You wouldn't want to be sitting in the target even if you did eliminate GPS; it is a small blessing to have it miss you by ten feet instead of landing on top of you. Really hard to jam inertial guidance, short of altering the gravitational constant of the universe. And if the Chinese can do that, we might as well throw in the towel now.