The Small Diameter Bomb II has a cumbersome process to load Link 16 data, creating a "significant challenge" for timely mission planning and complicating the delivery of valid targeting information for attacks against moving targets, according to a new report from the Pentagon's chief weapons tester. Director of Operational Test and Evaluation Robert Behler found SDB II has an average planning time of over 50 minutes per weapon, when the threshold is just five minutes. The inefficiency results from an...
