Tolun is a conceptual twin to GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb. It's a small(100kgs), highly precise bomb that can be carried in high numbers by small fighters. F-16 can carry 8 at a time. For high value targets like VIPs, aircraft and radar installations on an airbase, complete air defence complexes, important points in military bases, a flight of 2 F-16s with a typical combat load can carry 16 Toluns, compared to a maximum of 8 Mk-82s in double racks. While a 4 aircraft flight can carry 32 compared to 16 Mk-82s. It basically lets you engage many times targets in a single sortie compared to regular guided bombs.Can u explain that
It's directly analogous to GBU-39, which is of course used by multiple countries that are close to US, including us in the future, but only few have such a munition they own themselves. An IIR variant closer to GBU-59 is also in the works.
I think that's just a different camera angle, targets look identical to first ones shown.total 8 drops....