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U.S. Air Force Golden Horde Vanguard Program Flight Tests ‘Collaborative Weapons’

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, January 7th, 2021

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U.S. Air Force Golden Horde Vanguard Program Flight Tests ‘Collaborative Weapons’

The Collaborative Small Diameter Bomb (Air Force Research Laboratory Photo)

The U.S. Air Force Golden Horde program test flew two Collaborative Small Diameter Bombs (CSDBs) released from an F-16 on Dec. 15 in what the Air Force called the first-ever flight demonstration of collaborative weapons. The CSDBs used technology developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and California-based Scientific Applications and Research Associates, Inc. (SARA), which received a $100 million contract for CSDB-I in 2019 (Defense Daily, July 7, 2020). In 2019, as part of Golden Horde, Georgia Tech Applied Research…

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