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From: woody@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Wayne Wood)
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Subject: B-52 bombings
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Date: 22 Aug 90 02:51:21 GMT
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From: Wayne Wood <woody@eos.arc.nasa.gov>
In article <1990Aug15.031944.25575@cbnews.att.com> graham!john@uunet.UU.NET (John Braun) writes:
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>From: graham!john@uunet.UU.NET (John Braun)
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>   I wonder what B52 strikes would accomplish against Iraqi dug-in
>positions.

ever heard of "arclight"?

a b52 flies over an area and saturates it with 250/500/1000 pounders...
it ain't accurate, and it ain't pretty, but if you hit a bunker hard
enough, for long enough, it stops being a bunker and becomes a 
smoking hole in the ground.

the ground shakes.

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