Mk 83 AIR 1000 lb Retarded Bomb with Ballute - Rigged & Animated Deploy, PBR, Game-Ready LODs

A realistic, true-to-scale Mk 83 1,000 lb bomb with the BSU-85/B air-inflatable retarder ("AIR") tail. One control bone deploys it: the aft cover pops off, the nylon ballute streams out of its canister and inflates into a four-lobed air brake. Four ready-made animations cover carriage, deployment, the inflated pose and a looping in-flight flutter. 4K PBR textures (paint and fabric), M904 nose fuze with spinning arming vane, and three LODs.

Features:

• Rigged: deform bones only under one root (cover, ballute, arming vane), plus a single CTRL_Ballute control: one channel walks the bag from packed to inflated
• 10 shape keys on the ballute: 8 deploy stages (four extraction stages, streaming, two inflation stages, inflated), Breathe and Flap; basis = packed, so engines show the carriage pose without an animation
• 4 animations (30 fps): Closed, Deploy (40 frames), Deployed, Deployed_Flutter (seamless loop), each on its own NLA track
• Animations (bones + morph targets) included in FBX and GLB for every LOD; OBJ and USD in the closed pose
• Real-world scale (metric, 1 unit = 1 m), nose toward ?Y, resting on Z = 0
• Clean quad-dominant geometry, no n-gons, manifold; 60,984 tris (LOD0)
• Game-ready LODs: LOD1 23,100 tris, LOD2 9,542 tris; the ballute LODs keep the inlets, shape keys and UVs
• 13 separate, logically named parts (canister, fins, cover, ballute, fuze, vane, lugs …)
• PBR metal/roughness textures: Body set 4K, Fabric set 4K, Hardware set 2K, plus a downscaled set
• Maps: BaseColor, Roughness, Metallic, Normal (OpenGL + DirectX), AO, Height (16-bit), ORM
• Non-overlapping UVs in 0–1; the ballute is unwrapped as a sewing pattern (one island per gore quarter)
• Stencils baked into the textures, plus editable decal meshes
• Formats: .blend (Blender 5.2), .fbx, .glb, .obj, .usdc; every export re-imported and verified
• No trademarks or logos; all text is original