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2022-11-28 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

The US Considers Sending GLSDB to Ukraine -- But What Is It? - Suchomimus

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Posted by DarthVader 2022-11-28 11:15|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Sounds promising, but not available until Spring '23.

Posted by Angstrom 2022-11-28 19:15|| 2022-11-28 19:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Unless it steerable and GPS (and possibly laser guided) then it is a kludge. Sounds like a defense contract looking for funding really.

Posted by magpie 2022-11-28 20:50|| 2022-11-28 20:50|| Front Page Top

#3 tl;dr: they built a baby cruise missile

It is a kludge. They took an existing air-launched precision glide bomb (GBU-39) and stuck it on an existing MLRS rocket to get a long-range guided artillery rocket. It's kinda clever and makes use of parts that were going to be tossed. I like the little folding wings.

Posted by SteveS 2022-11-28 21:18|| 2022-11-28 21:18|| Front Page Top

#4 It is a GPS guided glide bomb with a boost rocket. Nothing more.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-11-28 23:40|| 2022-11-28 23:40|| Front Page Top

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