SMALL SMART BOMBS WIN RESEARCH PRIORITY

The Pentagon's demand for smaller aerial weapons, particularly to beef-up the firepower of stealth aircraft, has triggered fast-paced research into miniaturized precision guidance both for existing, lower-weight dumb bombs and for a new family of reduced-diameter weapons. Current efforts are divided...

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