Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB) flops in Ukraine

[cd228]

There was a generation of GPS guided munitions, including the JDAM. Everyone clapped then they turn insurgents into chunky salsa. GPS guided munitions are cheaper and lower risk to the air craft than laser guided bomb units. However, GPS jammers have been used against US forces and. Munitions before. Sometimes the jammers have been effective, other times not.

[Slater]

Counter-countermeasures/Home-On-Jam (from the 3 May 24 DoD contract announcements):

"Scientific Applications and Research Associates Inc., Cypress, California, was awarded a $23,554,341 firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee, undefinitized contract for the acquisition of Home-on GPS Jam seekers. This contract provides for the integration of the extended range seekers into existing Joint Direct Attack Munition wing kits. Work will be performed at Cypress, California, and St. Louis, Missouri, and is expected to be completed by Oct. 1, 2025. This contract involves Foreign Military Sales to Ukraine. This contract was a sole source Small Business Innovation Research Phase III acquisition. Fiscal 2023 operation and maintenance funds in the amount of $9,961,706 are being obligated at time of award. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, is the contracting activity (FA8213-24-C-0017)."

[Harpoon]

On 5 December 2011, an American Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was captured by Iranian forces near the city of Kashmar in northeastern Iran. The Iranian government announced that the UAV was brought down by its cyberwarfare unit which commandeered the aircraft and safely landed it...