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To: CatHerd
JDAMs are not being converted.

I believe what you are referring to is Small Diameter Bombs (SDB).

The Ground Launched SDB has already been developed and tested by Boeing and SAAB. However, the GLSDB is a product in search of a customer.

Below is a link to a marketing video by SAAB.

https://www.saab.com/products/ground-launched-small-diameter-bomb-glsdb

48 posted on 02/17/2023 12:13:48 PM PST by FtrPilot
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To: FtrPilot

No, I distictly recall it was JDAMS. Again, it may have been pie-in-the-sky thinking (lots of that going around).

Search did not turn up much on the fly, but this one is kind of interesting:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ground-launched-small-diameter-bomb-would-double-ukraines-precision-strike-range


49 posted on 02/17/2023 12:21:06 PM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: FtrPilot

I can easily believe the JDOMs conversion to ground-to-ground weapons is nonsense. There were also reports refuting the reports this was possible and being done.

I hate fly consider myself myself a munitions expert. And so I am leery of all these reports.


50 posted on 02/17/2023 12:33:07 PM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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