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To: DesertRhino

What’s the cost break on a bellyful of dumb bombs for a BUFF versus a few JDAMs? There has to be a crossover point where the dumb bombs win out.


93 posted on 02/01/2016 8:10:33 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

B-52 can carry 51 Mk-82 500#ers @ about $2.5k/per.

24 GBU-38 same bomb, $18k for the fins.


102 posted on 02/02/2016 3:13:56 PM PST by xone
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