11.11.2004
USAF Drops First 500-Pound JDAM
USAF Drops First 500-Pound JDAM
GORDON TROWBRIDGE
BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq
The U.S. Air Force hopes within days to begin using a new, lightweight, satellite-guided bomb here, giving F-16 crews a new option to strike Iraqi insurgents and reduce unwanted destruction...
The bomb is half the size of what had been the smallest Joint Direct Attack Munition in use, and its corresponding lack of explosive force is designed to reduce 'collateral damage'...
"Our job is to destroy things if need be," Tech Sgt. Robert Franks said Nov. 4. "But why not use as little explosive as possible" "If we don't have to destroy something, we don't want to."
Well put
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GORDON TROWBRIDGE
BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq
The U.S. Air Force hopes within days to begin using a new, lightweight, satellite-guided bomb here, giving F-16 crews a new option to strike Iraqi insurgents and reduce unwanted destruction...
The bomb is half the size of what had been the smallest Joint Direct Attack Munition in use, and its corresponding lack of explosive force is designed to reduce 'collateral damage'...
"Our job is to destroy things if need be," Tech Sgt. Robert Franks said Nov. 4. "But why not use as little explosive as possible" "If we don't have to destroy something, we don't want to."
Well put
Read the rest here
# posted by Frank_D @ 16:49 
