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Boeing Combines Army Rockets With Air Force Bombs To Create Smarter Artillery Option

Mai Hanoon

Monday, September 30th, 2013

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Boeing [BA] is working to integrate the Air Force’s Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) with the rocket motors from the Army’s M26 Multiple Launch Rocket System to create a smarter ground-launched artillery option for combatant commanders while creating cost savings for the Army. The M26 system is being demilitarized, with its Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munition having been banned in a 2008 cluster munitions treaty. The Army must get rid of its entire stockpile of about 400,000 worldwide by 2019, leaving…

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