[phoneman08]

Don’t we have a few million iron bombs gathering dust we can just carpet bomb with?

[DuncanWaring]

Yes, but we don’t have enough bombers to properly carry them.

[lurk]

Carpet bombing is rather inefficient for going after isolated small encampments, and it causes harm to non-combatants. Why leave large holes all over the valley when one hole will do?

Old dumb iron bombs are actually fitted with guidance kits these days, turning them into precision weapons.

[Blueflag]

iron bombs can be retro-fitted with a guidance nose and steering tail fins.

Quite a good use of “iron”

[jmacusa]

Yeah. Like the DNC headquarters.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Much more prudent to attach smart bomb tail-controllers to those “dumb bombs” and actually hit the target we want to kill.

We found out in Vietnam that tens of thousands of tons of bombs dropped randomly at random “areas around the target” don’t do anything but waste money and shoot down our planes.

[bert]

I believe....

carpet bombing = war crime

[TXnMA]

"Don’t we have a few million iron bombs gathering dust we can just carpet bomb with?"

Why be wasteful and endanger innocent, nearby civilians? All we have to do is strap a sensor nose and steerable tailfins onto a dumb iron bomb -- and, Voilá! instant PGM!

[FreedomPoster]

We retrofit them with fins and seeker heads and make smart bombs out of them. Much more efficient.

[NorthMountain]

Don’t we have a few million iron bombs gathering dust we can just carpet bomb with?

No. And we don't have enough BUFFs left to do a proper carpet-bombing. And we never had enough BOnes or B2s to do it. And smart bombs are just dumb bombs with a guidance package bolted on.

[PapaBear3625]

A smart bomb is just an old iron bomb with a JDAM kit attached.