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To: SauronOfMordor
Hellfire missile uses a shaped charge, designed to penetrate armor.

Anything other than a direct hit with a 250 lb bomb would simply shake up the crew of a tank.

Different weapons, different missions...

Look, bombs do a lot of things, from putting holes in the ground (denying the enemy a runway, for example) to denying the enemy personnel land (cbu bomblets), to blowing up Palaces.
57 posted on 04/18/2004 7:43:21 PM PDT by Lokibob (All typos and spelling errors are mine and copyrighted!!!!)
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To: Lokibob
Anything other than a direct hit with a 250 lb bomb would simply shake up the crew of a tank.

A direct hit with a concrete bomb can destroy a tank. I would imagine a direct hit with a 250 pound bomb will do likewise (as you point out)

There is nothing stopping the military from putting a shaped charge on a laser-guided bomb. The main difference between a gravity-propelled bomb and a rocket-propelled bomb is that one drops vertically, and the other flies horizontontally. A laser-guided bomb can hit a particular spot on a tank too, and with a much bigger warhead.

63 posted on 04/19/2004 3:32:26 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (That which does not kill me had better be able to run away damn fast.)
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