Originally known as the Small Diameter Bomb II, the GBU-53/B StormBreaker is a gliding ... and F-15E — the latter can carry up to 28 StormBreakers. Efforts to incorporate this weapon with ...

23 GBU-27 Penetrator Laser-Guided Bomb (2,000 lb) 11 GBU-28 Bunker Buster Laser-Guided Bomb (5,000 lb) 1 GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) GPS-Guided Bomb (2,000 lb) 5,086 GBU-32 JDAM GPS ...

First, it is so heavy that only Israel’s twenty-five F15Is are able to carry it, one bomb for each plane. For optimum use against a target, the GBU-28 also requires a clear line of sight ...

namely GBU-28 bombs. The Israel Defense Forces have reached for them more than once. For example, the GBU-28s fell on Hamas tunnels in 2021 during the "Guardian of the Walls" operation in Gaza.

A U.S. Navy F-35C dropped a pair of externally-loaded GBU-54 Laser Joint Direct Attack Munition (LJDAM) bombs for the first ...