World’s Most Sophisticated Bomb Ready for Production

AIN online ^ | June 12, 2015 | Chris Pocock

[Dilbert56]

" I guess that is the price we pay for having an acronym happy society."

Yeah, AHSs are a bitch.

[USNBandit]

External carry is an option for the F-35, as well. It is just another way for people to whine about the F-35. that is the cost of going stealth.

[minnesota_bound]

Lightning II will not receive the Block 4 software required to drop the SDB II until 2022

This is 2015. Can’t they hire some apps programmer and knock this out in a weekend?
WW2 was 4 years for us.
How long does the Defense dept think the next war will be?

[alexander_busek]

[...] allows simultaneous attacks in adverse weather and against moving targets at up to 40 nm range [...]

Are they talking about nanometers - i.e., billionths of a meter (= 10 Å)?

Regards,

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

The next President will get use out of these in cleaning up Obama’s “Muzzies Gone Wild” 8 year Spring Break party mess.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

40 Nautical Miles range

[Kickass Conservative]

I assume it means Nautical Miles.

But hey, you guys know best.

[Billthedrill]

40 nanometers does not sound like much of a range.

Yes, but is extremely accurate within that range.

[alexander_busek]

Thanks, fellahs!

Regards,

[Yo-Yo]

The USA produced about 15,000 P-51's in WWII. At the time, it was cutting-edge technology and the best in the skys. Each copy cost $50,900. If you believe the US Bureau of Labor's inflation statistics, in today's dollars that is $650,000 per

And in today's dollars, how much does a MANPADS cost, and how long would a P-51D survive against one?