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Laser Guided Bomb Testing

Reel Number: 220340-06

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1980s

Country: USA

Location: Eglan AFB, Florida

TC Begins: 04:23:05

TC Ends: 04:28:41

Duration: 00:05:36

Laser Guided Bomb Testing Eglan AFB. Tanks past camera. Man sighting telescope. Satellite dish w/ trucks. Cannon on front of tank. Aerial of fighter bomber in flight, pilot fires rocket. Tank on ground explodes. B ig explosion & smoke seen from air. Bombs exploding at Vietnam river bridge. Guided missile dropping. Inside bomb hatch in plane. Bomber on ground at night. 04:24:04 Colonel Leon Redenbocker, joint system program manager for AMRAAM (advanced medium range air to air missile going into production in 1985) talks to camera. Missile hits target. Woman in lab coat looks at missile. Chief of the Air to Air System Support Section talks to camera in chamber to simulate engagement between AMRAAM & air target. Shots of chamber functioning. Control room, computers, screens & buttons, operating simulation. 04:25:58 Test plane in hanger. Lt. Kathy Bailey explains test wing function. Missiles loaded, plane taxiing. Man talks in microphone w/ screen. Validation w/aircraft in flight & effect of missiles on wings; good shots control room. 04:27:07 MIGS. Firing missile from plane, plane hit. Infra-red image of missile. Explosions on ground, bombs dropped. Runway busters, modular guided & sensor fuzed weapons. Infra-red picture missile targeting tank, many good shots target practice. Military Destruction; 1980s Air Force Weapons Testing; Smart Bombs; Munitions;

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