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Thats only because of its low procurement The GBU-39s only 40K and there are 17,000 made Once procurement goes into full swing, you will see massive drop in price
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Not the bomb the technology is most dangerous part because the GBU-53 seeker can be easily be fitted to larger bombs which would allow them to be launched from greater range The war in Ukraine shown that counter measures against jamming wont work and only real effective measure is destroying the jammer a 500lbs bomb fitted with JDAM-ER wing kit and GBU-seeker would a highly effective weapon in that situation
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@BreandanAnraoi Procurement The GBU-39 only costs 40K per unit because there are over 17,000 made The GBU-53 is just getting into full production The initial batches were expensive to make as they were only ordering a handful testing. The first batch in 2015 was only 144 units The USAF Lot 9 last year is was 12,000 units The Lot 11 buy adds another 9000 The USN and USMC are expected to make their big buys soon Israel may not buy it because of the SPICE-250 but orders from others are starting to flow in
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The SPEAR3 advantage is that its powered which allows it to carry out time sensitive strikes which is capable that GBU-53 should get with later variant
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Yes but its money well spent Russia had convoy outside Kyiv that was hundreds of vehicles across 24 miles which was over 4000 vehicles Imagine being able to accurately target key vehicles like fuel trucks, munitions , food ,water ,air defense and communications Tanks cant fight without fuel or munitions Arty cant fire without munitions Air defense cant protect them from other attack aircraft
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@IronBroccoli The advantage of the GBU-53 is to accurate targeting When Russia had it convoy outside of Kyiv, its was over 30 miles long with over 4000 vehicles With GBU-53, you can target vital assets such fuel trucks, munitions, water, food, SHORADs , Jammers and key weapons like tanks , MLRS and artillery guns With munitions, its just luck of the draw Instead needed hundreds of munitions all targets, you accurately target the assets that they cant operate without Ideally, the US does need to either buy or adopt the UK SPEAR-3 design as its powered so its able to carry out time sensitive strikes up 90 miles away They also need to revisit JSOW-ER as the JSOW has modular warhead options from a unitary 500lbs warhead, submunitions and the BROACH for hard-target penetration with range of 280 miles Ukraine has show how effective all 3 types of warhead options, particularly submunitions are a bane to airfields as Ukraine has destroy a lot russian helos on the ground Of the 61 KA-52s lost, large number have been from ATACMS strikes
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@IronBroccoli The GBU-39s stock would be used first and the GBU-53 in limited use but US does need the SPEAR 3 as its powered
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@christopherchartier3017 Actually do because there are some cases where that extra bang comes in handy
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@christopherchartier3017 ometimes you need that extra bang
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@BoraHorzaGobuchul No, Ukraine has shown destroying the jammer is far more effective than using counter measures Mind you, the US would be actively destroying those jammers
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