[Goose]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukrainian-air...59699.html

Great videos of a MIG-29 launching carrying JDAMS to destroy two bridges in Kursk Oblast. It appears the MIG-29 can carry 2 JDAMs. The video also shows ground crew programming/verifying  the JDAMS using a laptop with what appears to be a PCMCIA 1553 interface. This indicates you can't do it from the cockpit as that would be easier. You wouldn't be balancing a laptop on the landing gear. That strongly indicates that the JDAMS aren't getting the high-accuracy handoff they will from an F-16. Not also that one of the bombs has a somewhat dished in nose. Apparently was still functional :-). 

Obviously it isn't necessarily true that the arming of the aircraft and the two bridges being destroyed are directly connected. In fact, the first attack used two JDAMS. At about 43 seconds into the video there are two clearly separate explosions, so the aircraft would at a minimum have to rearm for the second bridge. It is also good that Ukraine put to bed the (many) stories that claimed ATACMS destroyed the bridges. The second bridge does show signs of damage that could have come from an ATACMS. It could have also come from artillery or M31A2 rockets. However, an ATACMS is very unlikely (more like incapable)  of doing what the JDAMS did to the bridges.

[Goose]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukrainian-air...59699.html

Great videos of a MIG-29 launching carrying JDAMS to destroy two bridges in Kursk Oblast. It appears the MIG-29 can carry 2 JDAMs. The video also shows ground crew programming/verifying  the JDAMS using a laptop with what appears to be a PCMCIA 1553 interface. This indicates you can't do it from the cockpit as that would be easier. You wouldn't be balancing a laptop on the landing gear. That strongly indicates that the JDAMS aren't getting the high-accuracy handoff they will from an F-16. Not also that one of the bombs has a somewhat dished in nose. Apparently was still functional :-). 

Obviously it isn't necessarily true that the arming of the aircraft and the two bridges being destroyed are directly connected. In fact, the first attack used two JDAMS. At about 43 seconds into the video there are two clearly separate explosions, so the aircraft would at a minimum have to rearm for the second bridge. It is also good that Ukraine put to bed the (many) stories that claimed ATACMS destroyed the bridges. The second bridge does show signs of damage that could have come from an ATACMS. It could have also come from artillery or M31A2 rockets. However, an ATACMS is very unlikely (more like incapable)  of doing what the JDAMS did to the bridges.