Russia is probably using up leftover Cold War inventory.
“Russia is probably using up leftover Cold War inventory”
As I recall, in Gulf War II, we used Vietnam (and earlier!) bombs in the B-52’s.
I’m not sure that using “smart bombs” is now table stakes in warfare. War is, well, war. Kill people and blow up stuff in order to achieve your objectives. It was making me crazy that we were expending $200,000 smart missiles to blow up two easily replaced idiots in a 50 cal machine gun equipped pickup truck. War is partly an economic battle and it always has been. It’s good to be on the “cheap” side of this. For example, a $200,000 MANPAD to take out a 20 million dollar airplane and the millions in cargo and personnel and training. Or, the $1000 RPG that takes out a 2 million dollar APC and its (trained) personnel.