Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!unmvax!uokmax!occrsh!fang!att!cbnewsc!cbnews!cbnews!military From: ab3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Allan Bourdius) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Bombing accuracy in the Gulf Message-ID: <1991Jun28.022138.26289@cbnews.cb.att.com> Date: 28 Jun 91 02:21:38 GMT References: <1991Jun27.013820.28408@cbnews.cb.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.cb.att.com (william.a.thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 24 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Allan Bourdius >I heard on PBS's program "After the War" (with Bill Moyers) that 70% of >the bombs dropped in the Gulf missed their targets. Does anyone know >where Moyers could have got this information from? Did the DoD release an >estimate of the accuracy of the bombs recently? Can anyone point me to such a >study? He also said that most of the bombs dropped in the conflict were not >precision weapons. Could this be because a high percentage of the tonnage was >dropped on the Iraqi Republican Guard and the rest of the Army, where precision >was not needed? Well, I suppose it depends on how you define a "miss". If your target is a building and that's what you aim for and the bomb lands 20 feet away in the street, that could be construed as a "miss" even though the bomb will most likely destroy or damage the target in some way. Allan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Allan Bourdius [USMC Officer Candidate/Brother, Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity] ab3o+@andrew.cmu.edu or 1069 Morewood Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 CMU is not a fun place. Stay away at all costs. The opinions in this post/mail are only those of the author, nobody else.