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To: phoneman08

Yes, me too

My thought is that dropping lots of smart bombs specifically targeted gives lawyerly argument for innocence


34 posted on 02/06/2018 12:59:17 PM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: bert

The smart bombs are simmply more effective. You do - after all - have specific targets you want to kill. Missing a “tent” by 200 feet that holds the meeting you want destroyed between ISIS leaders does nothing. WWII we were happy to get 20% of the bombs within 5 miles of the target - a factory or oil refinery or train depot. Forget bridges or submarine pens or tunnels. Only the specially-trained - and very few - Tallboy bombardiers could get close to kill those targets.

Now, any pilot can get every one with 90% success the first time. Don’t have to fly subsequent missions to try and miss the same target again.


35 posted on 02/06/2018 1:07:43 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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