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Popping up in front of everything from phones to bombs, "smart" might just be the latest word trend.
When Raytheon, the defense contractor, repeatedly consulted with visiting American forces last year about making "dumb" bombs "smart," and in February actual smart bombs fell on Mindanao, killing alleged jihadists from Malaysia and Singapore, editorials came up with a familiar specter.
Smart drugs, smart bombs, smart mice--there seems to be nothing upon which science can't bestow a higher IQ.
THE U.S. MILITARY HAS SPENT $1 trillion in the past decade developing and procuring weapons, including smart bombs, smart satellites and precision lasers which should be able to deliver an almost bloodless battle (as in the Gulf war on the allied side).
The U.S. military has spent $1 trillion in the past decade developing and procuring weapons, including smart bombs, smart satellites and precision lasers that should be able to deliver an almost bloodless battle (as in the Gulf war on the allied side).
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Joint Direct Attack Munition Manufacturer Boeingg, formerly made by McDonnell-Douglas What it does: A kit developed to make "dumb" bombs smarter.
Like a regular bomb, a smart bomb falls to the target solely by the force of gravity, but its fins or wings have control surfaces that move in response to guidance commands, enabling adjustments to be made to the angle of the bomb's descent or the direction of its fall.
Apart from the stratospheric price, the most controversial element of the B61 upgrade is the replacement of the existing rigid tail with one that has moving fins that will make the bomb smarter and allow it to be guided more accurately to a target.
To hear the Pentagon briefers tell it, virtually all the bombs were smart -- or at least above average -- and were dropping with surgical precision.
The JDAM kit, or Joint Direct Attack Munition, is a U.S. technology that converts unguided bombs into "smart" munitions. .
If you need to tow a bomb, ensure Vehicle Smart Bomb is turned off, or otherwise it will cause the bomb to explode.
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