USAF Demos Quicksink Bomb

[MIflyer]

From Avweb:

Communist China has been effectively employing a vast fleet of low-tech, lightly armed government vessels and dual-use civilian craft and naval militias to expand and dominate large swaths of the Western Pacific.

Until now, the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard could only respond to this 'Gray Zone' armada with small deck guns, scarce heavy torpedoes, or expensive anti-ship missiles and line-of-sight laser-guided bombs.

That equation has now changed as the Pentagon has shown off its latest low-tech 2,000-pound Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) – appropriately named 'QUICKSINK,' in an impressive live-fire demonstration in the Gulf of Mexico.

It can be dropped on ships from 20 miles away. Note that it hits the side of the ship and "torpedoes" it. Just like Billy Mitchell.

 

[GrauGeist]

Dang...

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

That looked like snapping a matchstick.

 

[Snautzer01]

Magic trick. Now you see it... booom...now you dont.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Also, the B-52 might have a new lease on life.

 

[BlackSheep]

From Avweb:

Communist China has been effectively employing a vast fleet of low-tech, lightly armed government vessels and dual-use civilian craft and naval militias to expand and dominate large swaths of the Western Pacific.

Until now, the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard could only respond to this 'Gray Zone' armada with small deck guns, scarce heavy torpedoes, or expensive anti-ship missiles and line-of-sight laser-guided bombs.

That equation has now changed as the Pentagon has shown off its latest low-tech 2,000-pound Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) – appropriately named 'QUICKSINK,' in an impressive live-fire demonstration in the Gulf of Mexico.

It can be dropped on ships from 20 miles away. Note that it hits the side of the ship and "torpedoes" it. Just like Billy Mitchell.

Billy Mitchell, now there is a patriot with the ability to say "I told you dumb mf's so", if there ever was one.

 

[SaparotRob]

Also, the B-52 might have a new lease on life.

Again.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Also, the B-52 might have a new lease on life.

I don't think the B-52 will ever retire. The USAF is now modernizing the fleet again, including re-engining them.

 

[MIflyer]

When I worked at Tinker AFB one day I unrolled some B-52 drawings and examined them for data I needed to solve an engineering problem. Then I stood up and said they would have to assign another engineer to the task; I was not qualified. The drawings were dated to before I was born.

Now, of course, I work on my Ercoupe 415C; it was built before I was born and most of the drawings are even older than that.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

I wonder how many of these Quicksinks (@2000 lbs) a BUFF could carry? I know in Desert Storm the G models we had in the 801st carried 51 750-lbers. A -52 carrying ten or twelve of these could cover a large swathe of ocean efficiently.

 

[SaparotRob]

I wonder how many of these Quicksinks (@2000 lbs) a BUFF could carry? I know in Desert Storm the G models we had in the 801st carried 51 750-lbers. A -52 carrying ten or twelve of these could cover a large swathe of ocean efficiently.

Probably all of them.

 

[GrauGeist]

If I'm not mistaken, the F-35 can carry 2,000 lb. bombs in it's bays.

Now that would be a scary prospect...

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Newly-released footage from the same test, taken from a camera on the deck: