Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: FQV@PSUVM.PSU.EDU (jim bowers) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Long range tank destruction Message-ID: <1990Sep24.001517.23322@cbnews.att.com> Date: 24 Sep 90 00:15:17 GMT Sender: military-request@att.att.com Organization: Penn State University Lines: 23 Approved: military@att.att.com From: jim bowers It seems to me that the technology exists to destroy every Iraqi Tank in Kuwait without any U.S. personnel ever crossing the border. Use RPV's (like the ones the Israelis have used to such good effect for intelligence gathering) and attach a laser designator to the tv camera. The only thing you now need is a long range delivery system for some pave laser guided bombs. Ideally a simple unguided long range rocket should do the trick. Since it would probably take too long to develop this technology, I suggest a high speed / high altitude release from an F-15 in a ballistic trajectory. Although I haven't worked it out, it seems to me that a 250 lb laser guided bomb released from an F-15 at 50,000 ft at a 45 degree angle (up) at mach 2 would be able to travel one very long way. A technician targets a tank, the computers work out the ballistics, a F-15 pilot goes for a little training mission, and 150 miles away an Iraqi tank mysteriously disappears into a small crater. Feasible????????