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To: gleeaikin
"dropped 45 2,000lb bombs on Libya. I wonder where. Isn’t that what they call bunker busters?"
On the airfield at Misratah some 100 miles east of Tripoli.
At tricky question. Because there where bombs that where called bunker busters used years ago that weighted 2KT. But we today normally think of bunker busters to be GBU-28/BLU-113 smart guided bombs that weight well over 4,000 pounds. Following is but one site that will give you an idea what they look like Here.
So why this particular airfield? Because it is where many of the military aircraft take off from and land and has a number of hanger facilities cordoned off for military use rather then civilian traffic.
259 posted on 03/21/2011 12:17:42 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....Duncan Hunter Sr. for POTUS.)
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To: Marine_Uncle; no-to-illegals; Ernest_at_the_Beach; SE Mom; Pan_Yan; All

Lovely sleek missile at the link, but what I really wanted to see was the hole. ;-) Here is the latest AOL News feed on the Libyan situation:

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/21/pentagon-gadhafi-forces-in-disarray-after-assault-on-libya/?ncid=webmail


260 posted on 03/21/2011 12:32:39 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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