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Skip bombing was a low-level bombing technique independently developed by several of the combatant nations in World War II, notably Italy, Australia, Britain, Soviet Union and the United States. It allows an aircraft to attack shipping by skipping the bomb across the water like a stone. Dropped at very low altitudes, the bomb never rises more ...
The United States Navy also experimented with a two-stage version of the Tiny Tim, which mounted another Tiny Tim rocket motor behind a complete Tiny Tim. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Like with the larger Big Richard, this "pusher" assembly was used primarily for testing, where the rocket motor would accelerate a test device to airplane-like speeds.
In 2020, The US Navy began plans to integrate the LRASM on the Boeing P-8 Poseidon. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] In February 2021, U.S. Navy and Air Force awarded a $414 million contract to Lockheed Martin for continued production of the air-launched variant of LRASM, now operational on the U.S. Navy F/A-18E/F and U.S. Air Force B-1B.
An anti-submarine weapon (ASW) is any one of a number of devices that are intended to act against a submarine and its crew, to destroy (sink) the vessel or reduce its capability as a weapon of war. In its simplest sense, an anti-submarine weapon is usually a projectile, missile or bomb that is optimized to destroy submarines.
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).
A US Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber recently used a new anti-ship weapon to sink a decommissioned warship in the Pacific and a cargo ship off the coast of Florida.
The GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) is a 250-pound (110 kg) precision-guided glide bomb that is intended to allow aircraft to carry a greater number of smaller, more accurate bombs. Most US Air Force aircraft will be able to carry (using the BRU-61/A rack [ 16 ] ) a pack of four SDBs in place of a single 2,000-pound (910 kg) Mark 84 bomb .
The Mk 101 Lulu was a US nuclear depth bomb operational from 1958 to 1972 A depth charge fitted with a nuclear warhead is also known as a " nuclear depth bomb ". These were designed to be dropped from a patrol plane or deployed by an anti-submarine missile from a surface ship, or another submarine, located a safe distance away.