September 10, 2003

On This Day in History /
2003:  A B-2A successfully dropped 80 independently targeted JDAM GBU-38 “smart” munitions against 80 separate targets at the Utah Test and Training Range to test a new Smart Bomb Rack Assembly (SBRA). The SBRA allowed the B-2 to carry, target, release, and control up to 80 GPS-guided weapons rather than its normal load of 16 weapons.
After an 11-sortie buildup toward qualifying the B-2 for the maximum munitions load, B-2 global power bomber combined test force experts successfully dropped the inert munitions. It happened at the Utah Test and Training Range at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, according to Maj. William Power, 419th Flight Test Squadron project pilot.