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To: truth4all
In WWII we went on bombing raids and then tried to figure out if we hit the right city. With modern GPS & video - a healthy majority of smart bombs find their way to the right spot. We do have a lot of retrofitted "old bombs", however.

The cost of a miss is too high (doggone daisy bombs cost $18 million a pop). I suppose you could say the cost of the bomb is more that what it's destroying on the ground.

166 posted on 12/10/2001 1:30:02 AM PST by The Raven
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To: The Raven
The bombs cost about $27,000 each. They are dropped from a C-130 cargo plane flying at least 6,000 feet off the ground, to avoid the bomb's massive shock wave. Each is more than 17 feet long and 5 feet in diameter - about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle but far heavier.

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169 posted on 12/10/2001 2:09:36 AM PST by Tennessee_Bob
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