{"id":194324,"date":"2008-10-05T05:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/05\/hope-hits-target-in-tests\/"},"modified":"2008-10-05T05:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T10:42:00","slug":"hope-hits-target-in-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/05\/hope-hits-target-in-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope Hits Target in Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img148.imageshack.us\/img148\/5938\/hopediehl0585127uu3.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" \/>The German Hope penetrating glide bomb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/generic\/story.jsp?id=news\/GLIDE09258.xml&amp;headline=Glide-Bomb%20Success%20Turns%20Attention%20To%20Future&amp;channel=defense\">hit its target in flight trials in September<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a 3000 lb class weapon that is  supposed to have a better penetrating capability than the 5000 lb GBU-28, and it has a range in excess of 100 km and a CEP of 3m.<\/p>\n<p>I find it interesting that it appears to have a variable incidence oblique wing, at least as shown in the picture, which is probably needed to get the range.<\/p>\n<p>If one assumes a launch at 35,000 feet, and a terminal dive from 5000 feet, the range implies a 10:1 glide ratio, which would require decent aerodynamic efficiency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German Hope penetrating glide bomb hit its target in flight trials in September. It&#8217;s a 3000 lb class weapon that is supposed to have a better penetrating capability than the 5000 lb GBU-28, and it has a range in excess of 100 km and a CEP of 3m. I find it interesting that it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1006,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-military","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}