I was reading about how Senator Kelly spewed the contents of a classified briefing in public (are charges coming?) about how shallow our stockpile of precision munitions is getting.
Need I remind everyone that the dumb munitions still work fine if you're willing to have a larger circle of destruction surrounding the target?
One of the main drivers of precision munitions is to get stand off distance to keep our own people safe from the enemy's defenses.
If the enemy has no defenses to speak of a WW2 bomber could do the mission.
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ReplyDeleteYou're banned you fucking idiot. Did you forget?
DeleteIf, indeed, the Kelly in question opened his fat trap about secret squirrel stuff, then he should be prosecuted, especially if he signed agreements to not open his fat trap.
ReplyDeleteAnd enforce it across all of Congress and the federal bureaucracy.
Curious note, they just reauthorized firing squads for federal capital crimes.
With a relatively simple set of computations, an airframe (A-10?), travelling at a given speed, altitude, and heading, can transition into a climb at a specified angle (37°?) and release a dumb bomb at a specific point in space. The projectile will be on a ballistic trajectory, very similar to artillery physics. This can give significant stan off. The airframe can deploy one, some, or all, then turn away. Multiple aircraft on converging vectors, executing such maneuvers in coordination, could put a significant amount of ouch into a respectably small target area with a very short duration between first and last impact. Truthfully, this is more applicable to the "loyal wingman" systems converted to bomb trucks.
ReplyDeleteCCRP and CCIP are standard modes for releasing dumb bombs built into every tactical aircraft we fly.
DeleteGoogle those, it's neat stuff.
And those are PRIMITIVE versions of what's available.
My dad learned bomb-tossing while flying the F-84G right after the Korean War went into armistice. Bomb-tossing for delivery of nuclear bombs, that is. He said they were frighteningly accurate within close tolerances using the simulated bombs.
DeleteThat was with the very top-shelf avionics of the early 1950s.
Today? It's literally program the point-of-doom and the system will auto-release at the right point, even taking over piloting if the pilot so wants.
Olde Skool "toss-bombing" should be pretty simple with the incredible processing power available on today's fighter/bombers. Hell, back during the Iran-Iraq war of the 80's, the Iraqi air force routinely used it against Iranian oil facilities and they were flying Soviet export models.
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