The U.S Air Force released photographs of a Sept. 4 bomb test in which a solo B-1B flew into this tiny pirate boat in the Gulf of Mexico. Because why not?
Now you see it.
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Now you don't.
U.S. Air Force Dyess Air Base / Via theaviationist.com
The test bombing is apparently meant to show that the bomber (a GBU-10 bomb dropped by a B-1) can be effectively deployed against small sea-borne surface targets, such as pirates, or other small moving objects.
A single GBU-10 bomb costs $23,700. The weapon was developed in the 1980s for the USA's Cold War needs, but was not used until 1998, when President Clinton issued a military strike in Iraq.
