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To: PIF
Since the Ruskies have only dumb bombs for the most part,

Do you really believe that ?

29 posted on 10/03/2015 7:30:30 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Sorry to take so long to get back - yes what I said seems to be true - here’s an article from the Strategy Page (a mil site).

“... But analysis of the battlefield later revealed that the guided bombs had done 75 percent of the actual damage. This pattern kept repeating itself and by the late 1990s the U.S. was on its way to using nothing but smart bombs. Not so Russia. While new smart bombs were developed in Russia very few were built. Moreover few Russian warplanes were equipped to use smart bombs and few pilots had any experience with these weapons. So it should be no surprise that Russia is using few smart bombs in Syria. The simple fact is that Russia has few of these weapons and even fewer aircraft and pilots able to handle them.”

http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles/Russian-Smart-Bomb-Shortage-Revealed-10-31-2015.asp


31 posted on 10/31/2015 2:54:53 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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