Last Updated on 26/08/2024 by Ankita
The Israeli Air Force has special fighter jets. These are F-15I Ra’am multirole fighter jets. Actually, these fighter jets are being used to drop bombs on Hezbollah’s hideouts. Mark-82 bombs equipped with special JDAM technology have been installed in them.
JDAM means Joint Direct Attack Munition. This technology takes the bomb towards the target with utmost accuracy. So that the target is not missed. First let us know about the Ra’am fighter jet. Then we will know about the bomb. Why is the combination of these two extremely dangerous?
Watch the amazing video of this fighter jet below…
What is the F-15I Ra’am multirole fighter jet?
This fighter jet is manufactured by the American Boeing Company. Its real name is F-15 Strike Eagle. Israel has given it the name Ra’am. Which means thunder. The length of this fighter jet is 63.9 feet. The wingspan is 42.9 feet and the height is 18.6 feet. Its weight is 14,379 kilograms.
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The F-15 Strike Eagle has 2 Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-220 afterburning turbofan engines. Which give it a power of 129.7 kilonewtons. Its maximum speed is 2656 km/hr. Combat range is 1272 and ferry range is 3900 kilometers. It can reach a maximum height of 60 thousand feet.
F-15 reaches a height of 50 thousand feet in a minute. It is fitted with a 20mm M61A1 Vulcan 6 barreled Gatling cannon. Apart from this, four bombs can be fitted under the wings. Four types of air-to-air missiles, 9 types of air-to-surface missiles or 18 types of bombs can be fitted. Or a mixture of all these can be made. It can fly with weapons weighing up to 10,400 kg.
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What is Mark-82 bomb?
This bomb is also manufactured by the American company General Dynamics. It is an unguided, low drag general purpose bomb. But by applying JDAM technology it becomes guided and accurate. It has five variants – GBU-12 Paveway II, GBU-22 Paveway III, GBU‐38 JDAM, JDAM-ER and Paveway IV. Usually they weigh 241 kilograms. These bombs are 7.3 feet long and 10.7 inches in diameter. Variants are used according to the explosive.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)