Golden Horde Swarming Munitions Program Back On Target After Second Round Of Tests
Four specially adapted Small Diameter Bombs were released by an F-16 near Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.
By Thomas Newdick March 3, 2021
The War Zone
Golden Horde Test Mission
40th Flight Test Squadron—Public Domain
The Air Force’s new swarming air-launched munitions program, Golden Horde, has been put to the test for a second time. The latest mission that we know about took place on February 19 and involved a two-seat F-16D Viper fighter jet from the 40th Flight Test Squadron, based at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, dropping four of the specially configured Collaborative Small Diameter Bombs (CSDB).
Although details remain limited, the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) today released four photos of the test, in which the jet is seen circling the target after “successfully dropping four CSDBs for the second Golden Horde test mission near Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico,†according to the captions. The CDSBs are Small Diameter Bombs modified to incorporate networked swarming technology.
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