Imagine guys sitting around, and their life’s passion...is to discuss how they can destroy something to approximately 72 percent. Then they spend days and weeks perfecting the 72 percent ratio and ingredients.
A kinder, gentler, Mk82.
Not a “Smart Bomb” but a “Nice Bomb”. Sort of fits with these idiots in charge, eh?
BTW, we already have something like this called the Neutron Bomb. I thought Barry was all about saving money? Well, as long as it’s not his own that he’s spending.
How did they perfect the guidance system to zero in on Korans, bomb vests and darling pet goats?
Remember the good old days when to take out a factory the US would level several square blocks? It seems to me that collateral damage goes a long way towards winning a war. War is not about winning hearts and minds, it is about breaking them.
“low-collateral damage Mk 82 bomb”
Sounds to me like the Air Force is angling for some “courageous restraint” medals for pilots.
I wonder if you can be awarded a medal for “courageous restraint” for not dropping a low-collateral damage bomb?
Make it out of NERF foam - that would be very “low-collateral.”
Actually if you recall the Tom Clancy novel and movie “Patriot Games”, the AF dropped a cellulose-cased bomb on a drug kingpin’s house, but the reason was strictly deniability...there would be no evidence of a US weapon left at the site. Or so they thought.
I think dropping pictures of all democratic female politicians would be a cheaper way to paralyze an enemy. Shock and Awe!
Apparently, these people are not as well informed as they should be on the ramifications of "carbonfibre" in bomb casings. Metal shrapnel is easy to find in a damaged but living body - even if the trauma surgeon can't see it, he can still image it with x-ray or other technology. Composites with carbon fibers (I'm in the States, so I won't use the Brit spelling) are almost impossible to find with most imaging technologies. That means that while the shrapnel is less penetrating, it is also much harder to remove from the injured. Doctors have to do a lot of exploratory surgery to find the little bits of carbon fiber, which look and even feel a whole lot like they belong in the human body.
Have we just paid for another weapon that will never be used because it's "inhumane"?