GBU-54/B LJDAM
Guided high explosive squash head-twitchy puma with a nominal weight of 500 lb.
Around the year 2006 of the combat formations of the u.s. air force began to ozívat voices requesting a guided bomb capable of hitting even moving targets. With the answer came the Boeing company, which proposed to expand the possibilities of pum series of JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition) on the laser guide. So a number of charges referred to LJDAM (Laser JDAM). Development was started in January 2007 and was carried out as an urgent operational need, which allowed in the case of the GBU-54/B the whole process speed up so that puma was for operational use ready after less than 17 months of development and testing work. During the tests should be allegedly achieved by the intervention of the vehicle traveling at the speed of 135 km/h. Although the cougars LJDAM have been developed for the u.s. air force, with their deployment of the envisaged even the US Navy. The first contract in the summer of 2007 for the company Boeing consisted of the production of 600 kits for laser guide (400 for the u.s. air force, the rest for the navy), which had to be delivered by June 2009.
The GBU-54/B comes directly from the type of GBU-38/B JDAM, the only significant difference is the use of sensors for laser guide DSU-38/B.
The first combat use of the bombs GBU-54/B, there was 12. August 2008, when a pair of aircraft F-16C from the assembly 77. EFS bombed a moving insurgent vehicle in the iraq province of Dijala. Cavalry charge took place in order to ensure the joint combat operations of the iraqi army and the us marine corps.
Sources
1) www.designation-systems.net
2) www.centaf.af.mil
3) defense-update.com
4) http://www.letectvi.cz/letectvi/Article66442.html.
Guided high explosive squash head-twitchy puma with a nominal weight of 500 lb.
Around the year 2006 of the combat formations of the u.s. air force began to ozívat voices requesting a guided bomb capable of hitting even moving targets. With the answer came the Boeing company, which proposed to expand the possibilities of pum series of JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition) on the laser guide. So a number of charges referred to LJDAM (Laser JDAM). Development was started in January 2007 and was carried out as an urgent operational need, which allowed in the case of the GBU-54/B the whole process speed up so that puma was for operational use ready after less than 17 months of development and testing work. During the tests should be allegedly achieved by the intervention of the vehicle traveling at the speed of 135 km/h. Although the cougars LJDAM have been developed for the u.s. air force, with their deployment of the envisaged even the US Navy. The first contract in the summer of 2007 for the company Boeing consisted of the production of 600 kits for laser guide (400 for the u.s. air force, the rest for the navy), which had to be delivered by June 2009.
The GBU-54/B comes directly from the type of GBU-38/B JDAM, the only significant difference is the use of sensors for laser guide DSU-38/B.
The first combat use of the bombs GBU-54/B, there was 12. August 2008, when a pair of aircraft F-16C from the assembly 77. EFS bombed a moving insurgent vehicle in the iraq province of Dijala. Cavalry charge took place in order to ensure the joint combat operations of the iraqi army and the us marine corps.
Sources
1) www.designation-systems.net
2) www.centaf.af.mil
3) defense-update.com
4) http://www.letectvi.cz/letectvi/Article66442.html.
