Storm Shadow, England

Storm Shadow is an air-launched, conventionally-armed, long-range, stand-off, precision weapon, which is deployable at night or day, in most weather and operational conditions. It has been developed to attack and desroy a wide variety of static, high value ‘hardened’ targets such as Command and Control facilities, airfield facilities and brigades.

Storm Shadow made its operational debut during Operation TELIC, the liberation of Iraq, with No 617 Squadron in March 2003. The Storm Shadow missile embodies the following key features: very long range, fire and forget, with fully autonomous guidance, low level terrain following, stealthy profile and penetrator warhead.

Small Diameter Bomb(SDB) testing scene

Small Diameter Bomb, or SDB :

The Small Diameter Bomb(SDB) system is a low-cost, precision-strike weapon system that can be mounted with internal or external carriages on fighters, bombers, and unmanned combat air vehicles.

Components and Capabilities :

The SDB system comprises the following components: The weapon itself, a four-weapon BRU-61/A carriage, a differential GPS accuracy-support infrastructure, a mission-planning system, and a logistics-support system.

Advantages :

The SDB system offers the following advantages over systems that have a single 1,000-pound or 2,000-pound weapon – Increases the number of targets per sortie(four to one), Reduces collateral damage as a result of improved accuracy and small-weapon size, Increases pilot safety with its extended standoff range.