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Mobile And Mid-Range Targets An Issue For USAF, Targeting Planner Says

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, January 29th, 2026

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Mobile And Mid-Range Targets An Issue For USAF, Targeting Planner Says

An F-15E Strike Eagle is loaded with five JASSMs at Eglin AFB, Fla., on May 11, 2021 as part of Project Strike Rodeo, led by the 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Defense analysts have said that insufficient attention to fielded forces' input in the determination of military service requirements has been a chronic problem for the Defense Department, one example of which may lie in munitions. The destruction of hard and deeply buried targets (HDBTs) thus far has no stand-off solution and requires stand-in weapons, most particularly Boeing's [BA] 30,000 pound GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator used in Operation Midnight Hammer against Iranian nuclear sites in June (Defense Daily, June 25). DoD…

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