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To: Candor7

Drone strikes in Pakistan. Really?

And again, while it sounds good to say that we should give Israel the bombs, Israel have no practicable way to deliver a bunker buster of that size.


41 posted on 12/20/2009 7:41:58 PM PST by Ready4Freddy (Everyone knows there's a difference between muslims & terrorists... no one knows what it is, though.)
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To: Ready4Freddy

IAF F-15I RA’AM
The aircraft has a maximum load of 11 ton munitions.The GBU-28 is under 11 Tons.

http://www.worldwide-military.com/Military%20Aircraft/Israel%20Fighters/F-15i_Algemene_info_english.htm

A bunker biuster is The GBU-28 is a 5,000-pound laser-guided conventional munition that uses a 4,400-pound penetrating warhead. The bombs are modified Army artillery tubes, weigh 4,637 pounds, and contain 630 pounds of high explosives. They are fitted with GBU-27 LGB kits, 14.5 inches in diameter and almost 19 feet long. The operator illuminates a target with a laser designator and then the munition guides to a spot of laser energy reflected from the target.

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/gbu-28.htm


47 posted on 12/20/2009 8:47:03 PM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member NRA))
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