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With the incredible accuracy of the JDAMs, the DoD has bee ndeveloping smaller bombs, becuase you don't need as much explosive to gaurantee destruction of the target. Specifically, they have kits for all bombs in the Mk-80 series, and many others, last I knew. The two sizes pertaining to this, the 82(500lbs), and the 250lb(someone confirm, I've heard it called a M-81), used for the small diameter munition, are relevant. The smaller bombs allow more to be carried in bays.
To the point, the smaller size, or more specifically, weight, allows tactical aircraft to carry more. An excellent example of this is the BRU-57s which we now have sitting in their crates, waiting for people to get trained so we can accept them. I've thought about this, and actually asked, why not make a new TER(or even a new MER?), rewired to allow these bombs to be carried? Apparently when I asked Ish, the retiree hired so we ca nask him questions, it didn't click that the smaller munitions in development would be perfect for this. The TERs for the F-16s are supposed to have digital trays, anyway, all it would take is a redo of the tray, enlarging the holes for the rocket plugs for the larger connector, redoing the rocket and CBU cables, and the suff to support the cables during bomb realease. Would a MER be too much harder? I don't know the original issues with those, so bear with me on that one. If you want more, smaller bombs, I'd think that this is a better way to go than something like the BRUs.
Did I make sense, or am I not seeing something here, that I've been told a dozen times, that someone here will finally point out in a way that will let me see it, or am I more messed up than I thought?
"Some pup"
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