graves_09 Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Title says it all. I starting thinking, would the inert JDAMs, Mk-8x's etc still have the coatings since they are not filled with explosive their would be no reason to put a protective coating. Or is it done anyway? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ski6502 Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Nope. No ablative coating on BDU-45s or Mk 83/84 Inerts. I have seen some static display thermally protected weapons with two blue stripes around the nose, but never seen them loaded (and that was a loooooooong time ago!) Semper Ski Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Reddog Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Usually thermally coated inert bombs are used in weapon seperation testing and other testing and are not generally used out in the fleet. There are only a limited number of thermally coated inert bombs manufactured and those are slated for the test community. HTH Reddog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
graves_09 Posted August 13, 2009 Author Share Posted August 13, 2009 (edited) Cool thanks guys! Now the decision: do I go the easy route forgo the coating and make the inert GBU-31 or put the coating on and make a live weapon... Edited August 13, 2009 by graves_09 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Reddog Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 You can do a Non Thermally Protected (NTP), i.e. no coating, live bomb. They do have live none coated bombs, they just don't use them on boats. V/R Reddog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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