Ground-directed bombing
Ground-directed bombing (GDB) is a military tactic for
A 21st century variant of ground-directed bombing is the radio command guidance for armed unmanned aerial vehicles to effect ground-directed release of ordnance (e.g., precision-guided munitions for bombing such as the AGM-114 Hellfire).[3]
World War II
In early 1945, ground-directed bombing was invented by Lt Col Reginald Clizbe, deputy commander of the
Korean War
Vietnam War
Late Cold War
Post-Vietnam War GDB Strategic Air Command missions were occasionally used for training/readiness, e.g., to maintain proficiency of aircrews and SAC's GDB-qualified technicians at 1st Combat Evaluation Group RBS sites. A new GBD system developed c. 1980 from the [who?]AN/TPB-1C Course Directing Central was the solid-state US Dynamics AN/TPQ-43 Bomb Scoring Set[4] which included optical tracking.[5] The AN/TPQ-43 ("Seek Score") replaced the AN/MSQ-77, -81, & -96 systems at the end of the Cold War[23] before being decommissioned in 2007,[24] and GDB systems were also designated for use during airdrops as part of the Ground Radar Aerial Delivery System (GRADS).[25]
Iraq War
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- ^ ISBN 9781563112409, retrieved 2012-05-26,
Won his first Air Medal while working with Col. Clizby in developing a means to bomb close support to the troops using ground control radar.
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- ^ "Trivia Question - alt.military.retired | Google Groups". groups.google.com. Archived from the original on 10 July 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
- ^ Preliminary Operation and Maintenance Handbook for Release Point Indicator AN/ARA-17. Radiation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1945-01-01.
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- ^ http://www.radomes.org/museum/guestbook.php?guestfile=2004/guest200407.txt (see also Yahoo posting 12333)
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On the MSQ-1, we operated in the same manner, but later learned that [for the "brand new MSQ-2 plotting equipment"] we should have entered the target coordinates into the new digital/analog computer, AND THEN 'ZEROED' THEM OUT AGAIN. The computer would remember the offset and track accordingly. Unfortunately, we did not know that without the TO's. By leaving them in, like the 584, we effectively located the target's position over the top of ourselves.
- ^ from Direct Air Support Center wikipage
- TACANused multiple beacons, not Skyspot--which used only one radar even if a non-transmitting Skyspot backup receiving the A/C transponder returns tracked or later commanded the bomb run.
- ^ Morocco, John (1985). Rain of Fire: Air War, 1969–1973. Boston: Boston Publishing Company. p. 14.
- ^ Jost, Alan C. (2007). ConOps:The Cryptex to Operational System Mission Success (PDF) (Report). Raytheon. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-08-05. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
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