U.S. sending new long-range precision bombs to Ukraine with a range of up to 90 miles

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[janetjanet998]

U.S. sending new long-range precision bombs to Ukraine with a range of up to 90 miles (145 km)

Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bombs. They're expected to arrive in Ukraine tomorrow

[Robe]

Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bombs

Didn't they use to be called MISSILES?

[dfwgator]

The Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bombs are flying....hallelujah....hallelujah.

Doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.

[JustaTech]

Didn't they use to be called MISSILES?

Nope, they were air-launched guided glide bombs.

Now they're ground-launched rocket-powered guided glide bombs.

[Mariner]

DoD contract to Boeing.
Boeing is delivering on IOU.

[SauronOfMordor]

Ukraine is the Beta test site.

[Rockingham]

The new weapon works. Known as StormBreaker, it is a ground launched rocket with a small diameter bomb with wings as the payload. After a long development process, the combination has performed well in tests and in previous and current combat use.

Using three different guidance systems -- radar, heat seeker, and homing on laser light bounced off the target -- Stormbreaker is highly accurate and hard to jam. It can identify, track, and hit stationary or moving targets in any weather and at night. This includes moving land targets, like trucks or train cars carrying munitions or other Russian supplies as well as ships at sea.

[SaveFerris]

(The Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bombs are flying....hallelujah)

The missiles are flying!

Hallelujah!

Hallelujah!

[canuck_conservative]

[Elsie]

U.S. sending new long-range precision bombs to Ukraine with a range of up to 90 miles

That's mighty high for a plane to drop them!

[Elsie]

Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bombs.

Whut???

Those have been known as ARTILLERY SHELLS for hundreds of years now.

[Elsie]

...a precision-guided 250-pound bomb strapped to a rocket motor...

HELLO!

This normally called a MISSILE!

[Elsie]

... launched from ground-based missile systems...

DUH

[bimboeruption]

>Ukraine will receive its first batch of Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bombs, a brand new long-range weapon made by Boeing that even the U.S. doesn’t have in its inventory, according to the four people, all of whom were granted anonymity to discuss matters ahead of an announcement.<

How long before Zelensky sells them to the highest bidder?

[Krosan]

It’s attaching a small gliding bomb to an obsolete M26 rocket motor. M26-s were marked for decommission because they are short range and very inaccurate, but the gliding bomb solves both of these problems and does is very cheaply.

[Elsie]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb

Sonar guided...