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re: What's your favorite military plane ?
Posted on 5/17/23 at 9:58 pm to FlyingTiger06
Posted on 5/17/23 at 9:58 pm to FlyingTiger06
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JDAM just as accurately as anyone else?
I was thinking of descriptions of Arc Light strikes, with associated slicks and maybe snakes. We're talking about Skyraiders and F-4s, and stuff, so I defaulted to old school. I know bombers are used differently than they were used 60 years ago, but...2k lbs 17 meters away? I never would have expected that was OK, but kudos for warheads on foreheads. Holee shite.
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Posted on 5/17/23 at 10:21 pm to LemmyLives
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2k lbs 17 meters away? I never would have expected that was OK
Yep. Target was on the second floor of a 5 story building, so needed the 2,000 lb penetrator (GBU-31v3) to get down through the building and into that space. I still made them tell me twice that the risk of dropping that big of a weapon that close was better than continuing to receive fire from that location. The answer was an emphatic yes and with the comment that the Iraqi CTS troops were "hunkered down behind a concrete wall." Sure that would mitigate frag from the weapon, but that doesn't stop the blast from that big of an explosion. I imagine their eardrums were split wide open and they likely got severe concussions. The bomb damage assessment (BDA) we got was that the strike was successful and several EKIA (don't remember the number).
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