Two months later, on January 29, 1963, the first demonstration of the
glide bomb's automatic homing feature took place when an YA--4B Skyhawk, flown by Cdr J.A.
The Indian defence authorities said the aircraft used the 2,000-lb Israeli-made SPICE 2000
glide bomb in the strike, having ability to destroy concrete bunkers.
The Luftwaffe had just launched an anti-shipping
glide bomb attack on the fleet, with radio-controlled missiles and the ship was sinking fast.
New Delhi India on Friday successfully test-fired its indigenously-developed lightweight '
glide bomb', the Smart Anti-Airfield Weapon at the Integrated Test Range at Odisha's Chandipur.
Another guided ordnance used in Desert Storm (though on a much smaller scale) was the EO/IIR-guided 1,140-kg Rockwell GBU15
glide bomb. The US Air Force retains an undisclosed number of GBU-15s.
The Walleye, a
glide bomb designed for soft, stationary targets, contained a small television camera mounted in its nose that transmitted images to the cockpit where a pilot could then designate an aim point and release the bomb.
The "X-37B after re-entry would be a slow moving, not very maneuverable
glide bomb, easy prey for any air defense system along its path to the target," Weeden wrote.
The PRC has been acquiring more and arming them with a variety of weapons, including the Kh-59E and Kh-29T air-to-surface missiles and the KAB-500Kr
glide bomb. The Su-30MKK also carries the Gsh-301 cannon and several types of air-to-air missiles, and it is capable of employing the Kh-31 anti-ship missile.
The Hakim project entered its third -- and most ambitious -- phase in the early 1990s under the management of Britain's GEC-Marconi, who acquired that bit of the Ferranti business in this took a laser
glide bomb, adapted with an infra-red seeker head, and added rocket propulsion.
The tube-launched Viper Strike
glide bomb employs laser terminal homing and entered US Army service on the MQ-5 in 2007.