{"id":764,"date":"2026-06-25T15:02:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T19:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviation.christophermreed.net\/?page_id=764"},"modified":"2026-09-23T18:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:18:39","slug":"vb-3-razon-guided-bomb","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/christophermreed.net\/aviation\/vb-3-razon-guided-bomb\/","title":{"rendered":"VB-3 Razon guided bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just too late for combat use during WWII, the Razon guided bomb was a 1,000lb AN-M65 bomb fitted with aft control surfaces to llow the weapon to be steered in range and azimuth, as opposed to the earlier VB-1 Azon, which could only be controlled in azimuth.<\/p>\n

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Tested from B-17s<\/a> during the war, stockpiled Razons were brought into service for use against North Korean bridge targets by B-29s<\/a>. This preserved example is seen at the NMUSAF, next to the B-29<\/a> Command Decision<\/em> fuselage display.<\/p>\n

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Just too late for combat use during WWII, the Razon guided bomb was a 1,000lb AN-M65 bomb fitted with aft control surfaces to llow the weapon to be steered in range and azimuth, as opposed to the earlier VB-1 Azon, which could only be controlled in azimuth. Tested from B-17s during the war, stockpiled Razons […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-764","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermreed.net\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermreed.net\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermreed.net\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermreed.net\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermreed.net\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/christophermreed.net\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/christophermreed.net\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/764\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermreed.net\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}