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From: bnr-vpa!schow%bcarh185.bnr.ca@watmath.waterloo.edu (Stanley T.H. Chow)
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Subject: B-52 powers (was Re: OP. DESERT SHIELD
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Date: 30 Nov 90 02:10:21 GMT
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From: bnr-vpa!schow%bcarh185.bnr.ca@watmath.waterloo.edu (Stanley T.H. Chow)

In article <1990Nov29.002106.18319@cbnews.att.com> ifaq570@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (allen kitchen) writes:
>	Speaking as one who has first hand knowledge of what the B52
>can do as far as damage, using this plane in this conflict is a good
>idea. It shouldn't be the first plane over the border, by all means,
>but one B52 can make a city block into a parking lot in under 10 secs.

I assume you mean parking lot for tanks and/or very big truks. I don't
think my car can climb over all the debris. :-)

Also, your figure of "10 secs" sounds very suspicious. As I recall, the
B52 is subsonic, the only damage a B52 can do within 10 secs is to its
own airstrip.

(Oh, you mean the time it take the bombs to drop? Isn't that time more
or less constant for most planes?)

[mod.note:  I would presume the point is that the B52 can do it in one
pass, instead of several missions.  - Bill ]

>As far as accuracy goes, we usually could land our bombs within 5-10ft
>of target. It got to the point we were so cocky we
>would ask who the command wanted to die first in the target site...

You should have told this to the Pentagon Brass. They could have saved
the U.S. tax payers a whole lot of money by not developing all those
new gold-plated smart bombs/bombers/missles/...

Also, that would have saved the Pentagon the embarrassment of the Tipoli
raid.


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