The Stormbreaker bomb is capable of tracking and destroying moving targets in all kinds of weather conditions from ranges as far as 40-nautical miles.
The US Air Force is arming its entire fleet of F-35s with the cutting edge Stormbreaker bomb capable of tracking and destroying moving targets in all kinds of weather conditions from ranges as far as 40-nautical miles.
In development for years, the now operational Stormbreaker arms the F-15E and F/A-18 and is currently testing on all three variants of F-35s. Beginning as the Small Diameter Bomb II, the Stormbreaker has been a pioneering and ground-breaking, air-launched weapon engineered with a “tri-mode” seeker enabling it to track targets with infrared, laser and millimeter wave technology. The weapon is also one of the early iterations of how two-way data links can be engineered into an air dropped weapon to better enable in-flight course correction and an ability to hit moving targets.
For these reasons, Stormbreaker is described by Raytheon engineers as a “network-enabled weapon that can engage moving targets in all weather conditions using its multi-effects warhead and tri-mode seeker.” This kind of progress with Stormbreaker is part of why the Air Force just awarded Raytheon with a deal to build as many as 1,500 of the bombs. The arrival of the weapon in greater numbers follows a year of 28 successful test drops in 2023 and the expansion of the Stormbreaker across the Pentagon’s fleet of attack aircraft.
The Stormbreaker is engineered with warhead and explosive versatility as well, as it can leverage shape-charge jets and better fragmentation technologies to both penetrate tanks and improve lethality. The weapon can also use various kinds of “fusing” technologies such as a delayed fuse enabling the bomb to penetrate a target before detonating to maximize explosive effect.
"Smart" bombs are getting smarter all the time. The ones we used in the 1970s took two planes to deliver- - - -one to paint the target with a laser, and another to actually drop the bomb to home in on the laser signal. Hanoi used to surround military targets with high rise apartment houses, and our guys had to thread the needle between them to get a good hit. Talk about an increased pucker factor for the laser guy!
The Stormbreaker bomb is capable of tracking and destroying moving targets in all kinds of weather conditions from ranges as far as 40-nautical miles.
The US Air Force is arming its entire fleet of F-35s with the cutting edge Stormbreaker bomb capable of tracking and destroying moving targets in all kinds of weather conditions from ranges as far as 40-nautical miles.
In development for years, the now operational Stormbreaker arms the F-15E and F/A-18 and is currently testing on all three variants of F-35s. Beginning as the Small Diameter Bomb II, the Stormbreaker has been a pioneering and ground-breaking, air-launched weapon engineered with a “tri-mode” seeker enabling it to track targets with infrared, laser and millimeter wave technology. The weapon is also one of the early iterations of how two-way data links can be engineered into an air dropped weapon to better enable in-flight course correction and an ability to hit moving targets.
For these reasons, Stormbreaker is described by Raytheon engineers as a “network-enabled weapon that can engage moving targets in all weather conditions using its multi-effects warhead and tri-mode seeker.” This kind of progress with Stormbreaker is part of why the Air Force just awarded Raytheon with a deal to build as many as 1,500 of the bombs. The arrival of the weapon in greater numbers follows a year of 28 successful test drops in 2023 and the expansion of the Stormbreaker across the Pentagon’s fleet of attack aircraft.
The Stormbreaker is engineered with warhead and explosive versatility as well, as it can leverage shape-charge jets and better fragmentation technologies to both penetrate tanks and improve lethality. The weapon can also use various kinds of “fusing” technologies such as a delayed fuse enabling the bomb to penetrate a target before detonating to maximize explosive effect.
Bet Bi-duh and the Democrat National Socialist/Communist Regime would have loved to leave a bunch of these in Afghanistan, for the people who want us dead.
The Stormbreaker bomb is capable of tracking and destroying moving targets in all kinds of weather conditions from ranges as far as 40-nautical miles.
The US Air Force is arming its entire fleet of F-35s with the cutting edge Stormbreaker bomb capable of tracking and destroying moving targets in all kinds of weather conditions from ranges as far as 40-nautical miles.
In development for years, the now operational Stormbreaker arms the F-15E and F/A-18 and is currently testing on all three variants of F-35s. Beginning as the Small Diameter Bomb II, the Stormbreaker has been a pioneering and ground-breaking, air-launched weapon engineered with a “tri-mode” seeker enabling it to track targets with infrared, laser and millimeter wave technology. The weapon is also one of the early iterations of how two-way data links can be engineered into an air dropped weapon to better enable in-flight course correction and an ability to hit moving targets.
For these reasons, Stormbreaker is described by Raytheon engineers as a “network-enabled weapon that can engage moving targets in all weather conditions using its multi-effects warhead and tri-mode seeker.” This kind of progress with Stormbreaker is part of why the Air Force just awarded Raytheon with a deal to build as many as 1,500 of the bombs. The arrival of the weapon in greater numbers follows a year of 28 successful test drops in 2023 and the expansion of the Stormbreaker across the Pentagon’s fleet of attack aircraft.
The Stormbreaker is engineered with warhead and explosive versatility as well, as it can leverage shape-charge jets and better fragmentation technologies to both penetrate tanks and improve lethality. The weapon can also use various kinds of “fusing” technologies such as a delayed fuse enabling the bomb to penetrate a target before detonating to maximize explosive effect.
Bet Bi-duh and the Democrat National Socialist/Communist Regime would have loved to leave a bunch of these in Afghanistan, for the people who want us dead.
For the F-35 these small diameter bombs greatly increase the number of bombs carried in the internal bays so as to maintain low observability (Stealth).
Increasing precision makes the 250lbs as effective as larger bombs that might have less precision.
With the fused sensors and AI of the F-35 and the tri mode seeker head with 2 way data link those little bombs are sub MOA all day.
John Burns
I have all the sources. They can't stop the signal.
I still kind of like the f22 raptor. I wish they could have updated the electronics and stuff on it with some of the f35 money and built a few more 22s. I wish they'd not have tried to make the f35 work for everything and just made it the best fighter. The marines should have done their own thing.
I would not buy something that runs on any kind of primer given the possibility of primer shortages and even regulations. In fact, why not buy a flintlock? Really. Rocks aren't going away anytime soon.
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