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To: janus
The 55 Brigade is now helping retreating Taliban units to hold their positions. Many are dug in on the front lines north of Kabul facing the Northern Alliance.

Good, they are perfect targets for heavily loaded B-1s and B-52s in those trenchs. A trench is no match for a 500 pound Mk-82 GP bomb, let alone 50-80 of them, and that's from just one airplane. (84 Mk 82s for B-1B, suprisingly only 51 for B-52H, although older models could carry more see FAS Site) Makes a nice linear target too, perfect for "carpet bombing".

6 posted on 10/20/2001 8:21:53 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: El Gato
Yo cat, I prefer the AC-130 raining 105mm howitzers down on the trenches. They find the target and they just circle the target pointing there guns on the target and raining death on the talipuss.
9 posted on 10/20/2001 8:38:19 PM PDT by The Vast Right Wing
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