[redbaiter]

Because when the first round lands, everyone it did not hit runs away or takes cover, and survives. Here, all eight rounds arrive at the same time, though of course not on exactly the same spot. Every bad guy in the neighborhood gets his 72 virgins. Imagine if a dozen of these monsters were sharing target data, and all of them fired off their rounds in this simultaneous way. Think 'daisy cutter.'

I trust Rummy's judgement, but I'll be sad if this program gets killed. It is so cool.

[eno_]

The Osprey is cool, too. But if it doesn't work or is a solution looking for a problem... there are better things to spend the money on. We are low on precision bombs and cruise missles. We need to build those in time for the Christmas rush to Bagdad. We don't want Saddam to lack for stocking stuffers, har har!

[eno_]

Think 'daisy cutter'

Not even close. 15,000# bombs can be delivered by air. Think of the supply and force-protection issues involved in getting this much artillery to an Afganistan battle. Ooops, the towelheads are on the next mountain range. 15 minutes by helicopter for the grunts, but the guns don't arrive for another two hours - not good!

[Young Werther]

T.O.T. (time on target) is not new. Whether one gun or many gums are employed, it ensures that you get everyone on the way to the crapper. Worked great in WWI but is it needed today?

High tech battlewear which incorporates medical sensors, surroundings sensors, (night vision, FLIR motion detection etc) along with the weapons and ability to call in air strikes for those daisy cutter and fuel air bombs will allow a squad to engage an enemy.

In the first several years of SNL there was an ongoing skit about how history would be changed if...one skit was "If the defenders of the Alamo had had a B-52". This was a joke 25 years ago but today's battlefield may be one in which high tech and precision are more important than mass fire, massed troops and massive effort. Precision application of force.