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  • From One Bomb, A Swarm of Tank Killers

    04/04/2003 10:25:30 PM PST · by Diddley · 34 replies · 200+ views
    ABC/GlobalSecurity ^ | Apr 4, 2003 | Ned Potter
    If any Iraqi soldiers had looked up at the right moment, they would only have seen the contrail of a B-52. The crew of that plane, we are told, dropped what looked like a fairly standard 1,000-pound bomb. But this particular one, dubbed the CBU-105, is seeing its first action ever in combat, and according to the U.S. Air Force, it is especially deadly. "It's a fearsome weapon," said John Pike, the head of globalsecurity.org and an ABC NEWS consultant. "If an armored convoy is moving down a road, an attack by this cluster bomb unit would basically stop that...