You Can't Drop Bombs While Doing Mach, Can You?

[assailant 0]

For some reason I thought you had to be subsonic to drop bombs. Not missiles (a2a), but definitely bombs. Am I crazy? Or was this just "fun" in the video?

 

[switch 0]

No, you`re not crazy!

He was hauling butt over Mach1 ingressing and egressing. In the pop though,

he slowed down a bit. I couldn`t see the airspeed readout on his HUD or the

gauge but I noticed his rpm dropping slightly when he was "in hot".

And yes, he was having fun!!

[Fenna 0]

Aircraft don't need to be sub sonic to drop bombs.

Many aircraft, such as the Tornado IDS and the F-111 were designed specifically to drop ordnance at supersonic speeds.

[Seawolf 0]

There is video at the boeing site showing the FA18E doing Supersonic drops.

[switch 0]

There is video at the boeing site showing the FA18E doing Supersonic drops.

Yea, I`m a little behind on current technology.

Seawolf, can you give me a link to that Boeing vid?

I tried to browse through their videos but I couldn`t find that one.

[splode 0]

Yeah!

 

Would like to see that!

[Seawolf 0]

I will try and find it. It was dropping MK82s in a dive at Mach1 (vapor cloud around the plane and the bombs, it was pretty cool)

[Seawolf 0]

This is not the same photo from a video I saw but it does show what I am talking about.

 

http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/fa18/fa183.html