At just 5.9 feet long and 285 pounds, the bomb’s small size increases the number of weapons an aircraft can carry, therefore raising the amount of targets it can kill in one sortie. Because of its size and precision accuracy, it also reduces collateral, or unintended, damage in the target vicinity. Global Security
Specifications:
Diameter: 7.5 inches
Length: 71 inches
Weight: 250-lb
Warhead: steel case for penetration
50 lbs of high explosive
Guidance Differential GPS/INS , Autonomous, all weather
Accuracy three meters circular error probable (CEP) for surveyed target
stand-off range 60 nautical miles
Penetration "six feet of reinforced concrete"
"more than three feet of steel-reinforced concrete"
Video Below the fold
Showing posts with label military spec. Show all posts
Showing posts with label military spec. Show all posts
Monday, December 29, 2008
GBU-39 Specs
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
A-10 Thunderbolt II Warthog
Primary Function: close air support (A-10), airborne forward air control (OA-10)
Crew: One
Unit Cost: $9.8 million (fiscal 98 constant dollars)
Powerplant
Two General Electric TF34-GE-100 turbofans (9,065 pounds each)
Length: 53 feet, 4 inches (16.16 meters)
Wingspan: 57 feet, 6 inches (17.42 meters)
Height: 14 feet, 8 inches (4.42 meters)
Weights
Empty: 25,600 lb
Maximum Takeoff: 51,000 lb (22950 kg)
Performance
Speed: 420 mph (Mach 0.56)
Ceiling: 45,000 feet (13636 meters)
Range: 800 miles (695 nm)
Armament
One 30 mm GAU-8/A seven-barrel Gatling gun; up to 16,000 pounds (7,200 kilograms) of mixed ordnance on eight under-wing and three under-fuselage pylon stations, including 500 pounds (225 kilograms) of Mk-82 and 2,000 pounds (900 kilograms) of Mk-84 series low/high drag bombs, incendiary cluster bombs, combined effects munitions, mine dispensing munitions, AGM-65 Maverick missiles and laser-guided/electro-optically guided bombs; infrared countermeasure flares; electronic countermeasure chaff; jammer pods; 2.75-inch (6.99 centimeters) rockets; illumination flares and AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles.
Video of an A-10 Thunderbolt II in action below the fold
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Raytheon RIM-161 Standard SM-3
This is what's going to shoot down the US spy satellite
The SM-3 (Standard Missile 3) is a derivative of the RIM-156 Standard SM-2ER Block IV missile, and is the missile component of the U.S. Navy's forthcoming theater-wide ballistic missile defense system, called NTW-TBMD (Navy Theater Wide - Theater Ballistic Missile Defense). It is an upper-tier ballistic missile defense weapon
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Length (incl. booster) 6.55 m (21 ft 6 in)
Finspan 1.57 m (61.8 in)
Diameter 0.34 m (13.5 in)
Weight ?
Speed 9600 km/h (6000 mph)
Ceiling > 160 km (100 miles)
Range > 500 km (270 nm)
Propulsion Booster: United Techologies MK 72 solid-fueled rocket
Sustainer: Atlantic Research Corp. MK 104 dual-thrust solid-fueled rocket
3rd stage: Alliant Techsystem MK 136 solid-fueled rocket
Warhead Hit-to-kill kinetic warhead (KW)
Sunday, February 10, 2008
AH 64
Key Data
Crew 2 - pilot and copilot / gunner
Dimensions
Main Rotor Blade Diameter 14,630cm
Height 3,590cm
Empty Weight 5,352kg
Performance
Maximum Cruising Speed 260km/h
Maximum Rate of Climb 942m/min
Maximum Vertical Rate of Climb 474m/min
Range 400km on internal fuel
1,900km on internal and external fuel
Endurance 3hrs 9min on internal fuel
g Limit Values +3.5g to -0.5g
Armament
M230 30mm Gun
70mm (2.75 inch) Hydra-70 Folding-Fin Aerial Rockets
AGM-114 Hellfire anti-tank missiles
AGM-122 Sidearm anti-radar missile
AIM-9 Sidewinder Air-to-Air missiles
Apahce in action below the fold
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