The GBU-15 is an unpowered, precision-guided glide bomb built by Rockwell International and introduced in 1975, formed by attaching modular guidance kits to a Mark 84 general-purpose bomb or a BLU-109 penetrating warhead. It can be guided by television for daytime use or imaging infrared at night, with a data link letting the launching aircraft steer it remotely, and it saw combat in the 1991 Gulf War, where all 71 rounds dropped were released from F-111F aircraft, including strikes used to seal Kuwaiti oil pipeline manifolds.
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Source Wikipedia: GBU-15Infobox: originQuote, Infobox: origin
United States
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1. Wikipedia: GBU-15
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is an unpowered glide weapon used to destroy high-value enemy targets.
Infobox: service
1975-present
Used In: Gulf War, Infobox: wars
Operation Wooden Leg Persian Gulf War
View the Source2. GBU-15 (Wikidata)
Wikidata- Weapon class classified from the entity's own sourced description text.
- Correction: a precision-guided glide bomb, not an aircraft.
Wikidata Q1484837 (P729 service entry): 1975
Service entry (Wikidata property P729): 1975.
View the Source 3. Wikidata: GBU-15
Wikidata Q1484837, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source GlobalSecurity.org: GBU-15
GlobalSecurity.orgOperated By: United States Air Force, Program managementQuote, Operated By: United States Air Force, Program management
program management responsibility for the GBU-15 weapon system transferred from the Air Force Systems Command
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