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| 2025-04-27 |
| [TWZ] StormBreaker Advanced Glide Bomb Lands In Yemen Largely Intact. The cutting-edge StormBreaker was only recently confirmed as being used in combat and could be of major intelligence value to an adversary. The wreckage of a GBU-53/B StormBreaker glide bomb, also known as the Small Diameter Bomb II (SDB II), has appeared in Yemen. The weapon, which was only recently confirmed as being used in combat in that country, offers some very advanced capabilities, especially over the previous GBU-39/B SDB I. It is set to become one of America’s most important and widely employed weapons, across its own aerial fleets and many of its allies. With that in mind, the technological risk of the remains of this still near-completely intact weapon falling into an adversary’s hands is significant. Photos showing the StormBreaker laying in the sand began to circulate recently on social media. Reportedly, the weapon was found by citizens in the Asilan area within the Shabwah governorate, a region in southeast Yemen (not in the northeast of the country, as some accounts have implied). The weapon has clearly not detonated and appears to have had its impact cushioned by desert sand, leaving it in one piece. Its pop-out wings are seen in a partially deployed position. |
| Posted by:Mercutio |
| #3 #2 One thing many people are ignorant of is complex munitions have a significant failure rate, estimanted to be on the 20-25% range. It's why they like to send two, because one's not work. Makes you wonder about the nukes. Posted by: ed in texas 2025-04-27 08:46 Ed, From personal knowledge, I trust our nukes, and those of the British and French as well. The Chinese are probably some distance north of 50%. The Russians, quite frankly, are more likely to kill you dropping it on your head than trying to set it off. The Norks have nuclear devices, not weapons. I would be very surprised if they have functioning, reliable missile warheads. StormBreaker has been in service for nearly 11 years, and it's early 2000s tech. Not good that the bad guys can get one; not a whole lot anybody can do with it. Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2025-04-27 11:37 |
| #2 One thing many people are ignorant of is complex munitions have a significant failure rate, estimanted to be on the 20-25% range. It's why they like to send two, because one's not work. Makes you wonder about the nukes. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2025-04-27 08:46 |
| #1 So, just drop another bomb on top of it and distroy it! Problem solved! |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2025-04-27 01:50 |