{"id":195271,"date":"2008-07-19T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/19\/f-22-performs-first-supersonic-sdb-drop\/"},"modified":"2008-07-19T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T19:39:00","slug":"f-22-performs-first-supersonic-sdb-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/19\/f-22-performs-first-supersonic-sdb-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"F-22 Performs First Supersonic SDB drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below are pictures of the F-22 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwards.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123107101\">dropping the 250 lb Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) drop at supersonic speed<\/a>.  This is actually a unique and valuable capability.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a guided weapon, so there is some body lift generated, so if they drop the weapon at above 60,000 feet and supersonic speed, you could strike something 50+ miles away.<\/p>\n<p>There are, however standoff weapons that equal this capability, though the round would be more expensive, but the plane cheaper.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/20109639\/326157080.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/20109639\/326157069.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/worldwidewarpigs.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/first-super-sonic-sdb-drop.html\">World Wide War Pigs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below are pictures of the F-22 dropping the 250 lb Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) drop at supersonic speed. This is actually a unique and valuable capability. It&#8217;s a guided weapon, so there is some body lift generated, so if they drop the weapon at above 60,000 feet and supersonic speed, you could strike something 50+ &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195271"}],"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=195271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}