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The first foreign sale of the GBU-28 was the acquisition of 100 units by Israel, authorized in April 2005. [15] Delivery of the weapons was accelerated at the request of Israel in July 2006. Delivery was described as "upcoming" in a cable dated November 2009 which suggested that the weapon could be used against Iran's nuclear facilities . [ 16 ]
In May, the administration gave the green light for the sale of $735 million in precision-guided weapons to Israel. The Israeli military also may also opt to use U.S.-made “bunker buster” GBU ...
Notably, he created the GBU-43, or "mother of all bombs", which is the largest non-nuclear bomb in the inventory of the US Armed Forces, [1] and earlier conceived of the GBU-28, both for use in wars in the Middle East. [2] Weimorts died of brain cancer in 2005, not living to see use of the MOAB, though it would later be used in 2017 in ...
[73] [74] In 2022 Bulgaria was approved to purchase another 8 F-16 C/D Block 70 aircraft, with another 28 GBU-39 (SDB 1), for the same cost. [75] Morocco: On December 20, 2024, the United States approved a possible sale of 500 GBU-39Bs and related equipment to Morocco for an estimated $86 million. [76]
Development continued, with weapons such as the nuclear B61, and conventional thermobaric weapons and GBU-28. One of the more effective housings, the GBU-28 used its large mass (2,130 kg or 4,700 lb) and casing (constructed from barrels of surplus 203 mm howitzers ) to penetrate 6 meters (20 feet) of concrete, and more than 30 metres (98 feet ...
The Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) is a guidance kit that converts unguided bombs, or "dumb bombs", into all-weather precision-guided munitions (PGMs). JDAM-equipped bombs are guided by an integrated inertial guidance system coupled to a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, giving them a published range of up to 15 nautical miles (28 km).
The first foreign sale of the GBU-27 was the acquisition by Israel of 500 units equipped with BLU-109 penetrating warheads, authorized in September 2004. [5] Delivery of such precision guided weaponry was accelerated at the request of Israel in July 2006, though the exact munition were not specified.
Texas officials try to intercept sale of surplus border wall materials Patrick noted that Texas became aware of the materials slated for auction on Dec. 12, the same day the Daily Wire reported ...