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Small Diameter Bomb

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Small Diameter Bomb

Check out precision with this hand crafted Small Diameter Bomb. Each model is carved from wood and hand painted to provide a piece you’ll love. 18 inches

The GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) is a 250 lb (110 kg) precision-guided glide bomb that is intended to provide aircraft with the ability to carry a higher number of more accurate bombs. Most US Air Force aircraft will be able to carry (using the BRU-61/A rack) a pack of four SDBs in place of a single 2,000 lb (907 kg) bomb.[9] The Small Diameter Bomb II (SDB-II) / GBU-53/B, adds a tri-mode seeker (radar, infrared homing, and semiactive laser guidance) to the INS and GPS guidance of the original SDB.[10]

The original SDB is equipped with a GPS-aided inertial navigation system to attack fixed/stationary targets such as fuel depots, bunkers, etc. The second variant (Raytheon’s GBU-53 SDB II) will include a thermal seeker and radar with automatic target recognition features for striking mobile targets such as tanks, vehicles, and mobile command posts.[11] The small size of the bomb allows a single strike aircraft to carry more of the munitions than is possible using currently available bomb units. The SDB carries approximately 38 lb (17 kg) of AFX-757 high explosive.[citation needed] It also has integrated “DiamondBack” type wings which deploy after release, increasing the glide time and therefore the maximum range. Its size and accuracy allow for an effective munition with less collateral damage.[12] Warhead penetration is 3 feet (0.91 m) of steel reinforced concrete and the fuze has electronic safe and fire (ESAF) cockpit selectable functions, including air burst and delayed options.[13] The GBU-39 has a circular error probable (CEP) of 5–8 m (16–26 ft).[12] CEP is reduced by updating differential GPS offsets prior to weapon release. These offsets are calculated using an SDB Accuracy Support Infrastructure, consisting of three or more GPS receivers at fixed locations transmitting calculated location to a correlation station at the theatre Air Operations Center. The corrections are then transmitted by Link 16 to SDB-equipped aircraft.
Alternative guidance and warheads[edit] In November 2014, the U.S. Air Force began development of a version of the SDB I intended to track and attack sources of electronic warfare jamming directed to disrupt the munitions’ guidance. The home-on-GPS jam (HOG-J) seeker works similar to the AGM-88 HARM to follow the source of a radio-frequency jammer to destroy it.[14][15] In January 2016, the Air Force awarded a contract to Scientific Systems Co. Inc. to demonstrate the company’s ImageNav technology, a vision-based navigation and precision targeting system that compares a terrain database with the host platform’s sensor to make course corrections. ImageNav technology has demonstrated target geo-location and navigation precision greater than three meters.[16] In January 2016, Orbital ATK revealed that the Alternative Warhead (AW), designed for the M270’s GMLRS to achieve area effects without leaving behind unexploded ordnance, had been successfully tested on the SDB.[17] Development[edit] In 2002, while Boeing and Lockheed Martin were competing to develop the Small Diameter Bomb, Darleen A. Druyun—at that time Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition and Management—deleted the requirement for moving target engagement, which favored Boeing. She was later convicted of violating a conflict of interest statute.[18][19] On May 1, 2009, Raytheon announced that it had completed its first test flight of the GBU-53/B Small Diameter Bomb II, which has a data link and a tri-mode seeker built with technology developed for the Precision Attack Missile.[20] And on August 10, 2010 the U.S. Air Force awarded a $450 million contract for engineering and development.[21] Although unit costs were somewhat uncertain as of 2006, the estimated cost for the INS/GPS version was around US$70,000. Boeing and the Italian firm Oto Melara have signed a contract covering the license production of 500 GBU-39s (INS/GPS) and 50 BRU-61/a racks for the Aeronautica Militare, at a cost of nearly US$34 million. US$317m was spent on R&D and spares for SDB II in FY13/14, with US$148.5m requested in these categories for FY15, the total budget split roughly 70:30 between USAF and USN.[3] SDB II production began in FY14 with 144 bombs for the USAF at a unit cost of US$250,000.[3] The FY15 budget requested 246 bombs at a cost of US$287,000 each.[3] When the Pentagon approved the SDB-II for production and deployment in May 2015, it had a unit cost of US$115,000.

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