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From: leem@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: B-52 powers (was Re: OP. DESERT SHIELD
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From: leem@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger)
In article <1990Nov30.021021.7527@cbnews.att.com> bnr-vpa!schow%bcarh185.bnr.ca@watmath.waterloo.edu (Stanley T.H. Chow) writes:
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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:
:>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.
:Stanley Chow        BitNet:  schow@BNR.CA

While the Circular Error Probability numbers are still classified, I
can attest to the fact that the probability of hitting targets from
high altitude bombing runs in those orders of number are such that I
would be the last to stand on the target even if they were dropping
cast iron bombs.  

This too is from first hand experience.

Lee

"Mit Pulver und Blei, die Gedanken sind frei."

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