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From: consp04@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Dan Boyd)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Bombers over the Falklands (was Re: B52 Replacement)
Keywords: laser-guided
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.042833.21632@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 22 Mar 91 04:28:33 GMT
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From: consp04@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Dan Boyd)
In article <1991Mar20.035047.2613@cbnews.att.com>, 
vexpert!mst@relay.EU.net (Markus Stumptner) writes:
|> It is a wonder they hit the runway at all.  [...] The pilot then
|> started a climb and the bombs were released on an ascending
|> trajectory with the plane still 3 miles away from the coast.

	Tossing iron bombs around this way would not be accurate
enough.  This means to me that they were using laser-guided bombs and
had someone (SAS commandos, perhaps) on the ground with a designator.
	Otherwise, this was quite a tricky piece of flying.

Daniel F. Boyd
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