The Golden Horde semi-autonomous precision weapon system was tested by the US Air Force Research Laboratory on 19 February. Details of the tests performed are disclosed in The Drive.
According to the American publication, during the tests, four GBU-39 / B Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) bombs were dropped in the sky near Holloman airbase (New Mexico) from a two-seat F-16D Viper fighter. The Drive recalls that an earlier test on December 15, 2020 was unsuccessful.
Earlier, the FlightGlobal portal wrote that in the penultimate week of February, during the joint use of four GBU-39 / B SDB bombs integrated into the Golden Horde system, four targets were simultaneously successfully hit.
In June 2020, the F / A-18E / F Super Hornet fighter launched the GBU-53 / B StormBreaker for the first time, which, as Forbes wrote, being integrated into the Golden Horde program, will change “the rules of the game.”
In March of the same year, the US Air Force, at the Air Warfare Symposium 2020 in Orlando, Florida, showed an animation of a strike against an enemy by the promising Golden Horde system, which involves the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and communications.
In December 2019, the American publication Popular Mechanics wrote that the US Air Force wanted to use the Golden Horde system against its opponents.