https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/us-air-force-unveils-new-precision-anti-ship-bomb/148549.article
지난 4월 28일 멕시코만에서 실제크기 표적을 상대로 QUICKSINK 프로그램의 실사격 테스트를 실시했습니다. 화물을 싣지 않은 수송선의 상부를 JDAM이 직격했으며, 화물선은 즉시 침몰했습니다.
GBU-31 JDAM에 해상용 시커를 장착했다고 합니다. 시커의 종류가 뭔지는 이번에도 미공개네요.
전투함같은 고가치표적은 잠수함이 노리고, 방어가 허술한 수송선단 등은 JDAM으로 싸고 확실하게 보내버리고 싶은 모양입니다. 2차대전 당시 비스마르크해 해전 등 과달카날 해전이 생각나네요. 그 때 미공군들도 일본해군과 교전을 많이 했었죠.
US Air Force unveils new precision anti-ship bomb
By Ryan Finnerty6 May 2022
The US Air Force (USAF) successfully tested an anti-ship munition developed under the service’s QUICKSINK programme.
The test was carried out in the Gulf of Mexico on 28 April and resulted in destruction of a full-scale target vessel, the Air Force says in a written statement. Video of the test shows an empty cargo ship being impacted from above at roughly mid-ship. The vessel appears to break in half and sink within seconds.
The QUICKSINK anti-ship test munition mounted on an F-15E Strike Eagle. DEEPSINK successfully destroyed a surface vessel during recent tests in the Gulf of Mexico.
QUICKSINK is a weapons development programme overseen by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). According to AFRL, the goal of QUICKSINK is to replicate the ship-killing capability of the US Navy’s MK-48 torpedo in a cheaper, more-flexible air-delivered platform.
“A Navy submarine has the ability to launch and destroy a ship with a single torpedo at any time, but the QUICKSINK [Joint Capability Technology Demonstration] aims to develop a low-cost method of achieving torpedo-like kills from the air at a much higher rate and over a much larger area,” says Kirk Herzog, AFRL programme manager, in a 29 April statement.
The recent QUICKSINK test used a modified GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) that incorporates a maritime seeker on the nose. It was released from an Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle over the 52,000sq km (20,000sq mile) Eglin Base Gulf Test and Training Range off the coast of Florida.
첫댓글 2000년대 초반에는 시커 없는 JDAM으로 하려고 했는데 도와줄 J-STARS도 곧 퇴역하니 결국은 시커를 다네요.
https://cafe.daum.net/NTDS/515G/61
폭탄으로 싸고 저렴하게 해상표적 공격할 생각은 예전부터 갖고 있었네요. 중동에는 이런 걸 써먹을 일이 없으니 묵혀놨다가 필요한 때가 되니 또 개발을..