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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: B-52 bombings
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.030917.24509@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 31 Aug 90 03:09:17 GMT
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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
In article <1990Aug24.034016.305@cbnews.att.com>, 0003751365@mcimail.com (Thomas J Klotzbach) writes:

|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.

I beg to differ. You can't (yet) use ALCMs to hit moving targets. B-52s would
be used to carpet-bomb formations in the desert 'cuz there's no place to
hide...