Small Diameter Bomb films

You can bet both will be the primary air to ground weapon of the F-35. Regardless, of the operator………..:eek:

Yeah well the UK uses Paveways so something has to give otherwise they won’t have anything for F35s to carry internally.

Since we’re buying F35B we should buy SDB and JDAMs for them, don’t know if there are any plans though.

You can bet both will be the primary air to ground weapon of the F-35. Regardless, of the operator………..:eek:

Is the UK buying the SDB?

Since we’re buying F35B we should buy SDB and JDAMs for them, don’t know if there are any plans though.

Perhaps a couple of ALARMs instead of AMRAAMs to partially compensate for its lack of stealth … maybe an ECM pod too (what’s its onboard ECM capability like?).

The ‘integrated self-defence system’ is supposed to be pretty whiz

3 fuel tanks? They really should hurry up with those conformal fuel tanks …

Hell yeah

I remember as a small child seeing my first piccy of F15E with FASTpacks and thinking ‘why isn’t everyone else doing that’

Then SU27 shows the way with LOTS of internal fuel storage

The DesertFalcon finally gets in on the act

And EFA is still carrying bit drag-enhancers (‘I know we need more fuel, great lets mount it in a way which adds lots of drag so that each mile travelled requires more fuel, perfect, where’s the downsize?’)

Al

hi,
How many of these could the Typhoon theoretically carry?

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sentersoftech.

Well, I believe they weight about 267 lbs each……………So, my guess would be 20 max. Of course I doubt a Typhoon would in practice. As it would require external fuel tanks during most missions.:cool:

Small Diameter Bomb films

hi,
How many of these could the Typhoon theoretically carry?

www.staffingpower.com

sentersoftech.

Are ALARMs really that much bigger than AMRAAM? Does this mean that Meteor won’t be able to be mounted where the AMRAAMs are?

Both the AMRAAM’s and Meteor’s fit in the recesses under the fuselage of the Typhoon much like the F-4 Phantom of the resent past. It has more to with shape than size………………..

Are ALARMs really that much bigger than AMRAAM? Does this mean that Meteor won’t be able to be mounted where the AMRAAMs are?

Perhaps a couple of ALARMs instead of AMRAAMs to partially compensate for its lack of stealth … maybe an ECM pod too (what’s its onboard ECM capability like?).

3 fuel tanks? They really should hurry up with those conformal fuel tanks …

Yes, as the Alarms and ECM won’t fit in place of the AMRAAM’s thereby having to give up the number of SDB’s you could carry! 🙁

Perhaps a couple of ALARMs instead of AMRAAMs to partially compensate for its lack of stealth … maybe an ECM pod too (what’s its onboard ECM capability like?).

3 fuel tanks? They really should hurry up with those conformal fuel tanks …

If you replace the six 1000lb LGBs and the 1000L drop tank in this pic with seven SDB racks it could carry 28 (7×4=28).

Impressive surely! Why not keep one external tank and 24-SDB’s? Really, to be practical a more likely load would be 3- External Tanks, 4- AMRAAM’s, 2-ASRAAM’s, and 16- SDB’s. Still a very capable package with respectable range and a very good self-defense capability! IMO :rolleyes:

Is the UK buying the SDB?

How many of these could the Typhoon theoretically carry?

If you replace the six 1000lb LGBs and the 1000L drop tank in this pic with seven SDB racks it could carry 28 (7×4=28).

How many of these could the Typhoon theoretically carry?

Interesting collection of SDB pics here http://www.eglin.af.mil/agmsw/mm/1.html

GBU-39 SDB training rounds at Lakenheath pics http://www.af.mil/photos/media_search.asp?q=small+diameter+bomb

Imagine a single high-flying large aircraft eg a B-52 could bring a very large area indeed to a near standstill with these. Presumably the B-52 could carry in excess of 100 SDB ? Even a Nimrod could prove quite effective with a weapons bay full of these operating at its service ceiling

Urban strike SDB to be developed http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/04/18/206017/F-15Es+to+field+urban+strike+weapon.html

Although funding has yet to be approved, the USAF has signalled its intent to award Boeing a contract to develop a version of its SDB Increment 1 weapon with a composite-cased warhead. The case will break into fibres rather than heavier metal fragments when the bomb explodes, limiting its lethal range, while it will also release a dense metal powder that will lose energy quickly, reducing the blast radius.

What’s the purpose of those giant endplates?

That was my first thought too, I think they are just aerodynamic mountings for doing wind tunnel tests on a clean airframe.

A bit like the way they are testing this F/A-18 model.

Maritime attack role eyed for B-1B http://www.janes.com/defence/news/jdw/jdw060522_2_n.shtml

Raytheon tests SDB 2 http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/05/23/206828/Raytheon+tests+SDB+2.html

What’s the purpose of those giant endplates?