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From: monson@ee.ualberta.ca (Trevor Monson)
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Subject: Re: Air-to-air kill for an EF-111
Summary: EF-111 or F-15E
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Date: 4 Mar 91 20:50:45 GMT
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From: monson@ee.ualberta.ca (Trevor Monson)
>From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>>From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
>>On a related note, the NY Times today (2/26), in an article on ``smart
>>bombs'', mentioned an incident where an F-111 dropped a smart bomb on
>>an airborne enemy helicopter.
>
>Shaw's "Fighter Combat" mentions bombing helicopters as potentially a
>fairly effective tactic.  Not because a direct hit is often feasible,
>"especially if the bomb is being dropped by a fighter pilot", but because
>a hefty bomb throws shrapnel a long, long way.

    I thought that it was a F-15 Strike Eagle that killed
    a hovering helicopter with a laser guided bomb.  There was
    also an Iraqi tank that was killed by another smart bomb, with
    film shown on CNN.  Can anyone clarify this?  Was the helicopter
    killed by a F-15E or a F-111?  Were there two helicopters killed,
    or did the F-111 get the tank?

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     Trevor Monson		email: monson@ee.ualberta.ca
     University of Alberta