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To: Magnum44

True. but I think a cruise missile would have torn down a whole side of a tank. 600lb to 1,000lb warheads at least.

All from the same angle (at least 4 of those tanks). Have to go look again.


94 posted on 09/16/2019 2:06:28 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

That would have been my take as well, but I don’t know what they were carrying. And what they did was sufficient to shut down production so maybe that’s all they expected to do. If I recall a harpoon missile warhead was only about 100 lbs (or was it kilos?) but that could sink a ship. Bunker busters did all the damage inside the bunker but only left a clean hole outside. In 91, it took flight crews working with analysts initially to see that bunker buster strike had been successful. Initially they only saw the penetration hole and thought they needed to go back and hit again. Meanwhile, the inside the bunker was ruble-ized.


95 posted on 09/16/2019 2:12:43 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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