The Air Force (Air Force) of the United States completed the first phase of the demonstration test of the Golden Horde High-Residual High-precision Weapon System (“Golden Orda”), for the first time, hit by six bits of Collaborative Small Diameter Bomb (CSDB), reports Defense News.
The last tests took place on May 26, the White Sands missile test site in New Mexico. During testing fighter F-16 Fighting Falcon dropped six CSDB bombs, which exchanged data with each other and with a ground station. Thus, the first task of tests was performed – establishing a connection between bombs using the BANSHEE 2 network (four and two bombs interacted in previous tests). Within the framework of the second task, the CSDB from the ground station was submitted updated target information.
As a result, the pair of bombs synchronously destroyed one goal, two more bombs hit the pair of different targets.
In March, the FlightGlobal portal wrote that in the penultimate week of February, during the joint use of four GBU-39 / B SDB airbabers, integrated into the Golden Horde system, four targets were simultaneously affected.
In June 2020, the F / A-18E / F Super Hornet fighter released the GBU-53 / B Stormbreaker Avia bomb, 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 event in Orlando (Florida) showed an animation of the strike on the enemy of the promising Golden Horde system, which assumes the use of artificial intelligence and communications.