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To: thackney
"The Saudi-led coalition pounded Shiite rebels in Yemen on Tuesday, killing 20 in a city in the country’s west as the civilian death toll rose to 38 from airstrikes the day before in the capital, Sanaa, officials said.

That not bombing!
This is bombing. Dresden (1945) after three days of heavy bombardment by the RAF and USAAC.

32 posted on 04/21/2015 12:47:38 PM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: jpsb; Travis McGee; Squantos

Not arguing but that damage is more from the burn than explosives

Similar end result

Except in Dresden architectural hipsters if there were any coulda have preserved the historical facades to incorporate into the rebuild

JDAM AND MOAB don’t leave cast iron facades and fancy moulding work intact

Course we’re more likely to use precision don’t hurt folks bombs

Strange world no?

Massive tunnel busters and remote piloted missles and fighter bomber video game like force delivery

Versus WWII fire tornados from 1000s of bombs

Or good old fashioned B-52 carpet bombs in Arc Light which dropped on average 300 to 2000 sorties per month with 35000 and up pounds of ordnance per plane

Shock and Awe is a memory

It does appear that the damage from USAAC indeed did more damage with conventional bombing in WII

BUT WASNT MORE TONNAGE DROPPED IN INDOCHINA


63 posted on 04/22/2015 12:38:36 AM PDT by wardaddy (Dems hate western civilization and GOP are cowards...We are headed to a dark place)
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