An Air Force F-16 just fired off a pair of swarming munitions for the first time
The age of air-launched munitions which can work together to identify, locate, and take out targets is officially upon us.
By Jared Keller January 10, 2021
Military Tech News
The age of air-launched munitions which can work together to identify, locate, and take out targets in a crowded battlespace is officially upon us.
The Air Force announced last week that the service had conducted the first flight demonstration of its ‘Golden Horde’ weapons system in mid-December involving a pair of Small Diameter Bombs configured with a “collaborative autonomy payload.â€
The munitions were released from an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, after which they “established communication with each other and their seekers detected a GPS jammer,†according to an Air Force press release.
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