StormBreaker Mini Glide Bombs Take Longer To Load Onto Strike Eagles Due To Their Data Links
Some of the advantages the Air Force’s GBU-53/B StormBreaker glide bomb offers also mean it takes longer to prepare for action.
Some of the advantages the Air Force’s GBU-53/B StormBreaker glide bomb offers also mean it takes longer to prepare for action.
Now it has been approved for fielding, U.S. Air Force F-15E squadrons downrange will be the first to carry the precision weapons on combat sorties.
The testing milestone comes amid difficulties and delays that have pushed back Air Force plans for the weapon and temporarily halted its production.
The U.S. Navy says that it is interested in dramatically expanding the arsenal of weapons that its P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft are capable of carrying. The service says that it wants to start by integrating the AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missile, or LRASM, on the planes, but then potentially move on to add various air-launched naval mines, precision-guided bombs, and the Miniature Air Launched Decoy, or MALD, to the available loadout options.