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2006-06-13 Science & Technology

Raptor hits bulls eye on Mach 1.5 bomb run

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Posted by DanNY 2006-06-13 09:01|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Dead terrorists now available with ~~Special~~ Supersonic Delivery!

Posted by Zenster 2006-06-13 11:27|| 2006-06-13 11:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Good news. Needed to verify the release at Mach 1+, as this seriously interupts airflow at time of release. This will allow much faster time on target if we really need it.

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-06-13 11:32|| 2006-06-13 11:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Was the bomb stil supersonic at impact? No warning at all...

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-06-13 11:58|| 2006-06-13 11:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Almost 10 miles up, 1 1/2 times the speed of sound, and directly hits the target. Gotta love it!

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-06-13 12:10|| 2006-06-13 12:10|| Front Page Top

#5 The test saw a 1,000-pound Mk-83 JDAM dropped from 24 miles away use Global Positioning Satellite signals to zero in on what was termed in a news release as a "small ground target."

If I'm reading that right, the reason for the high altitude and high speed is to give the bomb enough momentum for a nice looooong slant range. That would let them JDAM something without flying anywhere near it--say, from outside the engagement envelope of the defensive SAM site, or from the airspace of the next country over, or some such.

Cool.

Posted by Mike 2006-06-13 12:21|| 2006-06-13 12:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Delivered in 10 minutes or the next one is free!

Posted by Spomose Angick9582 2006-06-13 14:44|| 2006-06-13 14:44|| Front Page Top

#7 It'd probably take ten minutes to get there after release!

Posted by Bobby 2006-06-13 14:52|| 2006-06-13 14:52|| Front Page Top

#8 In the future, I imagine a very high altitude bomber, unmanned, that could make some very interesting things happen. For instance, having 30 500 pound JDAM iron bombs hitting almost the exact same point with say a 1 second interval between them. Like a gigantic jack hammer.

Or 50 independently targetted 250 lb JDAM iron bombs covering an area perhaps 10 miles in circumfrence.

Or an unmanned plane designed for just a single cargo bomb, a giant bomb instead of much of its fusilage. It could take the bomb to great altitude, then crash dive, dislodging the bomb at high speed and veering off. The bomb itself could have a ramjet engine to accelerate its descent to tremendous speed before impact.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-06-13 15:13|| 2006-06-13 15:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Easily defeated by thousan..... woof! woof! grrrrrrr!

Posted by 6 2006-06-13 16:22|| 2006-06-13 16:22|| Front Page Top

#10 Or an unmanned plane designed for just a single cargo bomb, a giant bomb instead of much of its fusilage. It could take the bomb to great altitude, then crash dive, dislodging the bomb at high speed and veering off. The bomb itself could have a ramjet engine to accelerate its descent to tremendous speed before impact.

That's essentially what a cruise missile does. We have the technology to build absolutely huge cruise missiles if we wanted to. We could make them the size of a C-5. Imagine a missile coming at you that has three MOABs inside!

Posted by crosspatch">crosspatch 2006-06-13 16:22|| http://crufty.blogspot.com]">[http://crufty.blogspot.com] 2006-06-13 16:22|| Front Page Top

#11 Then you would have the suborbital bomb that would be mounted on a missile and hit the target at Mach Kerblooie!

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-06-13 16:36|| 2006-06-13 16:36|| Front Page Top

#12 crosspatch: granted, something the size of a C5-A that flies like a cruise missile is one thing, and definitely payback for 9-11, but I add the altitude and very high speed angles for the sub-orbital "rods from god" effect.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-06-13 16:38|| 2006-06-13 16:38|| Front Page Top

#13 That's a nuclear release, boys.

Posted by Skidmark 2006-06-13 18:05|| 2006-06-13 18:05|| Front Page Top

#14 Skidmark got it. Our fighters are now (small, guided) nuke capable.

Bwahahahahaaah!

Posted by Parabellum 2006-06-13 18:40|| 2006-06-13 18:40|| Front Page Top

#15 Raptor is one awesome fighter. It has great stand off capability meaning safety for fly boys (and gals).

Posted by Captain America 2006-06-13 19:22|| 2006-06-13 19:22|| Front Page Top

#16 In honor of our fly gals:

Posted by lotp 2006-06-13 19:38|| 2006-06-13 19:38|| Front Page Top

#17 Raptor is amazing, I am proud to help produce some of the components for this bird!

Posted by bombay">bombay 2006-06-13 20:05|| 2006-06-13 20:05|| Front Page Top

#18 thank you bombay!

kool job, I'd love to just walk through the machine and assembly rooms. I'll have to wait just to see it fly at airshows.
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6r and Alaska Paul,

I'll take Mach Kerblooie! woof! woof! grrrrrrr! for a thousand! »:-)

Posted by RD 2006-06-13 21:37|| 2006-06-13 21:37|| Front Page Top

#19 Or an unmanned plane designed for just a single cargo bomb, a giant bomb instead of much of its fusilage. It could take the bomb to great altitude, then crash dive,

For a moment, I thought we were discussing 9/11. Missed the unmanned part.

Posted by john">john 2006-06-13 21:49|| 2006-06-13 21:49|| Front Page Top

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