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TITLE:
GBU-30(JDAM)
DESCRIPTION:
The US Air Force and Navy are jointly developing two new air-to-surface stand-off guided bombs with conventional warheads - the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) and the Joint Stand-Off Weapon (JSOW). In addition, the Tri-Service Stand-off Attack Missile (TSSAM) MGM-AGM-137 would cover the launch spectrum from short to long range in adverse weather against a variety of high-value targets. The TSSAM is covered under the air-to-surface missile section of this binder.
 The JDAM-1 programme will add an all-weather inertial navigation system, augmented with a Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite receiver, to Mk 82, Mk 84 and BLU-109/B bombs in the USAF and USN inventories. The combination of the INS/GPS is expected to allow the bombs to hit within 10 to 15 m of their targets. The second-phase JDAM-2 will include a programmable fuze under development for LGBs, the GBU-15 and the AGM-130 stand-off weapons. The third phase JDAM-3 will introduce a terminal seeker to the bombs that would give them a 3 m accuracy.
 In late 1993 the future of the JDAM 1 programme began to be questioned because of an almost identical munition proposed by Northrop and Hughes, GATS/GAM (see above), which could be operational on the B-2 bomber by 1996 if required, some 3-4 years before JDAM.
 JSOW is intended to replace six existing weapons: AGM-65 Maverick, AGM-123 Skipper, AGM-62A Walleye, Rockeye and APAM (Anti-Personnel/Anti-Material) submunition dispensers and laser guided bombs. The baseline of JSOW, previously called AIWS (Advanced Interdiction Weapon System), will be a 450 kg, unpowered winged glide bomb with INS/GPS that will be launched outside the range of enemy air defences to dispense submunitions at a predetermined point over the target area. The Navy/Marine Corps JSOW, scheduled to become operational in 1998, will carry 145 BLU-97 Combined Effects Bomblet (currently used in the CBU-87/B). The USAF version will carry six BLU-108/B Sensor Fuzed Weapons, each with four terminally guided Skeet anti-armour warheads. Primarily USAF JSOW launch aircraft will be F-15E Strike Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft and B-1B bombers. A follow on JSOW will incorporate a precision terminal seeker and will carry a unitary warhead.
 The USN also wants to add a data link to transmit seeker video to the aircraft, as the JSOW approaches the target area, to allow the aircrew to refine the aimpoint or select a different target if the first has been destroyed.
TITLE:
PAVEWAY LASER-GUIDED BOMB SYSTEMS
GBU-10
Type:
Laser-guided bombs.
Development:
In 1965 the USAF Armament Development and Test Center (ADTC) Eglin AFB initiated a competitive evaluation of two laser-guidance concepts for standard low-drag general purpose bombs. Following successful evaluation the Paveway programme office was established at Wright-Patterson AFB with Texas Instruments selected to develop and supply guidance packages as modification kits for M 117 general purpose bombs. The system underwent Southeast Asia evaluations with the first operational releases in Vietnam in 1968. The success of the weapon rapidly led to the development of other modification kits to fit other free-fall bombs. Modular design concepts were used resulting in a common guidance and control unit being adapted to the Mk 82 (227 kg), Mk 83 (454 kg), Mk 84 (908 kg), M 118 general purpose bombs and the HSM penetrating bomb, with only the aerodynamic surfaces changed to meet the requirements of each size bomb. Details of the Mk 80 series of bombs can be found under a separate entry. The modification kits were designated GBU (Guidance Bomb Unit)-10 for the Mk 84, GBU-11 for the M 118, GBU-12 for the Mk 82, GBU-16 for the Mk 83 and GBU-17 for the HSM penetrating bomb.
The original Paveway Laser-Guided Bomb (LGB) became known as Paveway I in 1978 when a Production Engineering Programme (PEP) was initiated to improve LGB capabilities. The outcome of the PEP resulted in an updated LGB system which became known as Paveway II. The main improvements were: folding wings which open upon release for increased aircraft payload; improved electronics and greater manoeuvrability. The new programme also incorporated cost reduction features such as plastic lenses, plastic ringtail and integrated circuitry to improve reliability and reduce manufacturing time. The folding wings also permitted a larger number of aircraft to carry the bombs. Joint development in the late 1970s between Texas Instruments, the Royal Aircraft Establishment and Portsmouth Aviation Ltd led to the introduction of the Paveway II Guidance Units for the UK.
In 1980 US Naval Weapon Center, China Lake, began development of a rocket boosted version of the Paveway II GBU-16. This programme was designated AGM-123, called Skipper and entered service with the USN in 1985. This power-assisted LGB is covered by a separate entry in the Air-to-Surface missile section of Jane's Air-Launched Weapons.
A third-generation LGB system started development in 1980-81. Known as Paveway III, and as Low-Level Laser-Guided Bomb (LLLGB), it was developed to provide delivery at very low altitudes and significant standoff ranges. This modification kit was designed to fit the Mk 82 and Mk 84 GP bombs and the modified bombs were designated GBU-22 and GBU-24. The GBU-24/A Paveway III incorporates updated microprocessor technology, high-lift folding wings and an improved scanning seeker. Development was successfully completed in 1986 when the USAF dropped 47 GBU-24 from F-4 and F-111 aircraft scoring 44 successes. However, the GBU-22 version was terminated and did not enter production at that time.
In 1984 development began on a new 900 kg penetrating bomb designated BLU-109/B (see separate entry for details). In 1985 when the new bomb entered service with the USAF, Paveway II (GBU-10) and Paveway III (GBU-24/B) were adapted to fit it. When fitted with the BLU-109/B these GBUs are redesignated GBU-10G, H and J and GBU-24A/B.
The LGB system requires the targets to be designated/marked by either airborne, ground-mounted or hand-held designators. The airborne designators can be carried by the launch aircraft or a standoff control aircraft in support. Early airborne designators with which the Paveway LGBs could operate were Pave Knife, Pave Tack and Pave Spike (UK) which operated at a wavelength of 1.064 µm, which matched other western military lasers at that time. More recent target illumination has been provided by Atlis II, LTDS, TRAM, GLLD, MULE, LTM, Lantirn, and TI's own FLIR/laser designator.
The LGBs, depending on their size, are fitted with 356 mm or 762 mm spaced suspension lugs, and have been cleared for carriage on Alpha Jet, A-4 Skyhawk, A-6 Intruder, A-7 Corsair, A-10 Thunderbolt 2, AV-8B Harrier, B-52 Stratofortress, F-4 Phantom, F-5 Freedom Fighter, F-14 Tomcat, F-15E Strike Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon, F/A-18 Hornet, F-117 Nighthawk, F-111 Raven, Buccaneer, Jaguar, Mirage and Tornado aircraft.
During the 1991 Gulf War it was revealed that the F-117A Nighthawk stealth combat aircraft was involved in LGB attacks against high-value strategic targets and bunker command posts. It was also revealed that two new types of penetrating LGBs had been employed which up until then were programmes that had been shrouded in secrecy. The first of these was a modified Paveway III designated GBU-27/B, and the other weapon was the GBU-28/B which had been developed for deep bunker penetration and used modified GBU-27/B guidance and control components. Both of these specialised LGBs are covered in a separate entry. In 1994 the UK selected Paveway III, with several components made in the UK (see separate unclassified entry).
In 1996 Texas Instruments (now Raytheon Defense Systems) announced that a privately funded development had fitted Paveway III to a Mk 82 (227 kg) warhead, and that this new version was designated GBU-22/B. This version has been proposed for use in situations where collateral damage risks have to be reduced.
Description
The Paveway LGB system consists of two major bolt-on subassemblies for the conversion of conventional or specialised free-fall bombs to a laser-guided bomb. All of the LGBs are made up of three major assemblies: the front end laser guidance and control section, the main body warhead with suspension lugs, and the bolt-on stabilising tail assembly.
The Paveway II front end guidance and control section is a pointed, streamlined container with four moving clipped-tip delta control fins mounted on the rear half of the assembly. Mounted on the pointed front end of the unit is a stabilised gimballed housing that has a circular wing attached to four fins. This front assembly, which contains the semi-laser seeker, `weather-vanes' during bomb flight and aligns approximately along the bomb flight path. The four different body warhead units used for Paveway II bombs are described separately below. The bolt-on rear end assembly has four fixed, large, flip-out aerofoil surfaces arranged in a cruciform pattern.
The GBU-10C, D, E, and F use a standard Mk 84 general purpose bomb with 762 mm spaced suspension lugs as the warhead. The overall length of the LGB is 4.32 m long; it has a maximum body diameter of 460 mm and with an explosive charge filling of 428 kg of Tritonal or H-6 weighs approximately 900 kg. GBU-10 has a maximum range of 15 km when released from medium altitude (30,000 ft).
The GBU-10G, H, and J use a BLU-109/B penetrating bomb with 762 mm spaced suspension lugs as the warhead. The overall length of the LGB is 4.26 m, it has a body diameter of 370 mm (460 mm with body saddle hardback adaptor), and with an explosive charge filling of 240 kg of Tritonal weighs approximately 900 kg. The GBU-12B, C and D use a standard Mk 82 general purpose bomb with 356 mm or 762 mm spaced suspension lugs as the warhead. The overall length of the LGB is 3.33 m long; it has a maximum body diameter of 273 mm and with an explosive charge filling of 89 kg of Tritonal weighs 225 kg. GBU-12 has a maximum range of 15 km when released from medium altitude (30,000 ft).
The GBU-16A and B use a standard Mk 83 general purpose bomb with 356 mm or 762 mm spaced suspension lugs as the warhead. The overall length of the LGB is 3.68 m long; it has a maximum body diameter of 350 mm and with an explosive charge filling of 202 kg of Tritonal weighs 454 kg. The closed tailspan of the GBU-12 is 0.43 m; this extends to 1.34 m once the bomb has cleared the aircraft. All variants of the GBU-10 and the GBU-16 have a closed span of 0.72 m, and this extends to 1.68 m once the bomb has cleared the release aircraft.
Because of the new laser-guidance scanning seeker used in the Paveway III system, the guidance section no longer has the distinctive weather-vaning nose. There are two versions of the guidance section, designated WGU-12/B and WGU-39/B. Both guidance sections are similar and have a long light metal cylindrical tube with a clear plastic dome and four in-line, moving clipped delta control surfaces that run from the centre to the rear of the unit. The Paveway III GBU-24/A and -24A/B use the same warheads as the GBU-10C and -10G respectively, but use the BSG-84/B airfoil group which is larger and increases the weapon length to 4.39 m for the GBU-24/A and 4.31 m for the GBU-24A/B. When the wings of the airfoil group are folded the bomb has a tailspan of 0.94 m, which extends to 2.0 m once the bomb has cleared the aircraft and the wings have unfolded. A GBU-24B/B has also been developed, using the BLU-109/B warhead, but with a different hardback adaptor designated ADG-770/B. GBU-24 has a maximum range of 18.5 km when released from medium altitude (30,000 ft).
Guidance for all Paveway LGBs is by semi-active laser, the detector assembly and laser energy receiver being mounted in the front end behind the glass dome. After the bomb is released the laser error detector measures the angle between the bomb's velocity vector and the line between the bomb and target. Steering corrections are made by moving the nose-mounted canard control fins to adjust the bomb's trajectory to line up with the target. The tailfins/wings are for stabilisation purposes only. Target illumination for the system may be either by an aircraft-mounted laser marker (not necessarily the parent aircraft) or a ground-based laser transmitter.
SPECIFICATIONS :ÂÂ
GBU-10C, D, E,F
Length    4.32 m    ÂÂ
Body diameter 460 mm    ÂÂ
Tailspan   0.72 m closedÂÂ
       1.68 m extended
Lug spacing  762 mm    ÂÂ
Weight    900 kg approxÂÂ
Filling    428 kg Tritonal
GBU-10G, H, J
Length    4.26 m    ÂÂ
Body diameter 370 mm    ÂÂ
Tailspan   0.72 m closedÂÂ
       1.68 m extended
Lug spacing 762 mm     ÂÂ
Weight    900 kg approxÂÂ
Filling    240 kg Tritonal
GBU-12B, C, D
Length    3.33 m    ÂÂ
Body diameter 273 mm   ÂÂ
Tailspan   0.43 m closedÂÂ
       1.34 m extended
Lug spacing  356 or 762 mm  ÂÂ
Weight    225 kg    ÂÂ
Filling    89 kg TritonalÂÂ
GBU-16A, B
Length    3.68 m    ÂÂ
Body diameter 350 mm   ÂÂ
Tailspan   0.72 m closedÂÂ
       1.68 m extended
Lug spacing  356 or 762 mm  ÂÂ
Weight    454 kg approxÂÂ
Filling    202 kg Tritonal
GBU-24/A
Length    4.39 m   ÂÂ
Body diameter 460 mm
Tailspan   0.94 m closedÂÂ
       2.0 m extended
Lug spacing  762 mm     ÂÂ
Weight    900 kg approxÂÂ
Filling    428 kg Tritonal
GBU-24A/B
Length    4.31 m
Body diameter 370 mm
Tailspan   0.94 m closed
       2.0 m extended
Lug spacing  762 mm
Weight    900 kg approx
Filling    240 kg Tritonal
