Hamas Launches Infiltration, Rocket Attack on Israel

[DadSmith]

Why is this Iranian drone allowed so close to our Aircraft Carrier?

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[DadSmith]

 

[DadSmith]

 

[d.kaufman]

Why is this Iranian drone allowed so close to our Aircraft Carrier?

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It was probably picking up cash provided by the Bidet administration, i.e, the American tax payer.

 

[DadSmith]

I caught it just before it hit. Can any of you Airforce guys tell what it is by this Picture?

 

[SheepDog4Life]

Not a JDAM, looks like a Paveway (laser guided precision) or similar.

Paveway - Wikipedia

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[GodFearinGunTotin]

A day of (some) god, maybe.

 

[Route 45]

 

[DadSmith]

Poor innocent Palestinian children.
I'm sure they'll fit right in with inner-city gangs here in the USA. We've got to rescue them all.

 

[Shadow01]

Once they pick up a ral weapon thry become legitimate targets

 

[smittygj]

I caught it just before it hit. Can any of you Airforce guys tell what it is by this Picture?
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GBU-12. Maybe a GBU-10, but looking at the size compared to balconies, etc. I think it's a 12.

 

[BugI02]

I caught it just before it hit. Can any of you Airforce guys tell what it is by this Picture?
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Looks like some kind of GBU with drag brakes to allow low level deployment

 

[smittygj]

Looks like some kind of GBU with drag brakes to allow low level deployment

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Nope. It's gbu, not a snakeye.

 

[smittygj]

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...by-houthi-missiles-u-s-destroyer-downs-drones

 

[DadSmith]

 

[BugI02]

Nope. It's gbu, not a snakeye.

My thought was that some sort of airbrakes similar to the Snakeye might allow for the straight down on target impact that we see in the picture so as to maximize penetration and damage to that particular target and minimize collateral

It's definitely air-dropped, and the only two ways I can game that vertical impact is drag fins slow the horizontal component of its delivery speed to zero or it is dropped at a much higher altitude and terminal guidance has time to deliver a vertical impact. Don't quite understand the need for the smaller fins at the very back of the device if the larger elements ahead of that are also for steering - unless they are part of an add-on steering kit and the nucleus is a standard gravity bomb. I included the picture of the Snakeyes just to clarify what I meant by 'air brakes', not to suggest it was an actual Snakeye

 

[semperfi211]

United Auto Workers union calls for "immediate, permanent cease-fire" in Israel-Hamas war, becoming largest labor union to do so

Other labor organizations have shared their support for a cease-fire in the war-torn region.

www.cbsnews.com

Just shut up and build cars.

 

[Leadeye]

My thought was that some sort of airbrakes similar to the Snakeye might allow for the straight down on target impact that we see in the picture so as to maximize penetration and damage to that particular target and minimize collateral

It's definitely air-dropped, and the only two ways I can game that vertical impact is drag fins slow the horizontal component of its delivery speed to zero or it is dropped at a much higher altitude and terminal guidance has time to deliver a vertical impact. Don't quite understand the need for the smaller fins at the very back of the device if the larger elements ahead of that are also for steering - unless they are part of an add-on steering kit and the nucleus is a standard gravity bomb. I included the picture of the Snakeyes just to clarify what I meant by 'air brakes', not to suggest it was an actual Snakeye

Runs with the old "snake and nape" combo probably aren't under consideration these days.

 

[Leadeye]

United Auto Workers union calls for "immediate, permanent cease-fire" in Israel-Hamas war, becoming largest labor union to do so

Other labor organizations have shared their support for a cease-fire in the war-torn region.

www.cbsnews.com

Just shut up and build cars.

Crazy how all these various groups expect to influence events in this mess on the other side of the world.

 

[KLB]

Crazy how all these various groups expect to influence events in this mess on the other side of the world.

Just the latest virtue signaling fad.