Some reality checks about the ground situation in Benghazi the night of Sept 11, 2012.
It has been almost totally confirmed that at least one laser target designator was operational during the 7-hour fire fight. And, that one fact, puts all the lies and spin generated by the administration and its fellow travelers into the crapper and the chain pulled.
The target designator is used to designate targets for smart bombs and missiles. That class of munitions is called smart because they guide all the way to the target with mean radial errors (MRES) and circle of equal probabilities (CEPS) measured in single meters. What?
When you work munitions issues, tests and operational, you are trying to get the smallest miss distances possible – mean radial error is defined as a range and bearing from the target to the munitions consistent impact. The circle of equal probability is when 50% of your munitions fall inside that circle and 50% outside. The two added together define how accurate that type of munition is.
When I flew as a navigator/radar-navigator in B-52Ds during Vietnam we dropped dumb iron bombs with MRES/CEPS measured in 100rds of feet. Later working with advanced munitions I saw operational test results with MRES/CEPS measured in single digit meters (97% smaller than dumb bombs).
So what does the above hot air mean? There was minimal, if any, risk of missing the targets marked by the laser designator. So the hot air of worrying about where the targets were located and the possibility of killing innocent by-standers is just that - HOT AIR.
Just heard Newt on Greta, there are more emails, that he thinks will break on Wed. or Thursday. It is the NO GO or stand down email, if I understood him correctly.