Description
GB-4 is a glide bomb which is launched from an aircraft and guided by remote radio control to its surface target by employing television intelligence picked up by a television camera on the missile and radioed to a receiver in the launching plane. It has a special plywood airframe built around a 2,000 pound bomb, with rudders and elevators but no ailerons. The airframe is fastened to a magnesium casting threaded to the tail of the bomb.
The Destructor T9 is placed in the control box and is actuated, on impact, by the Fuze T62.
Functioning
No information about functioning.
See Also
Bomb, 2000 lb GP, AN-M66, AN-M66A1, AN-M66A2
Tail, Impact, M121
Source(s)
OP 1664, Volume 2 - US Explosive Ordnance (1947)
