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From: 0003751365@mcimail.com (Thomas J Klotzbach)
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Subject: Re: B-52 bombings
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Date: 24 Aug 90 03:40:16 GMT
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From: Thomas J Klotzbach <0003751365@mcimail.com>

Wayne Wood writes:

> a b52 files 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.

Things have changed a lot since Vietnam.  All B-52's now have a completly
re-designed Offensive Avionics System (OAS), which allows for MUCH greater
accuracy in low-level and high-level missions.  Anyways, I don't think you would
see a high-level gravity ordnance mission.  You're more apt to see the bombers
used for a stand-off role by utilizing their ALCM's, as they can be fitted with
a conventional warhead.  Deadly accurate, and hard to defend against.

tom_who_wishes_he_was_on_a_SAC_ramp_right_now

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