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LGB's were dropped from the Bone, there were pictures of it on the walls in South Base when I worked there years ago. One of the Bone drivers talked a bit about why the plug was pulled. It actually was pretty late in the program, very little was left to certify safe separation. ISTR the main issues were lack of designator (resolved now) and only 4 per rotary. JDAM came along and was a better solution at the time. Then laser JDAM came along and really what targets would require a GBU-10/24 that a GBU-31 or laser JDAM couldn't service?

[QUOTE="mkellytx, post: 551777, member: 3473"] LGB's were dropped from the Bone, there were pictures of it on the walls in South Base when I worked there years ago. One of the Bone drivers talked a bit about why the plug was pulled. It actually was pretty late in the program, very little was left to certify safe separation. ISTR the main issues were lack of designator (resolved now) and only 4 per rotary. JDAM came along and was a better solution at the time. Then laser JDAM came along and really what targets would require a GBU-10/24 that a GBU-31 or laser JDAM couldn't service? [/QUOTE]

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