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2004-11-17 Home Front: Tech

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Posted by Steve 2004-11-17 1:52:37 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If they ever get the GPS-guided artillery rounds down pat, the Air Force won't have to spend quite as much time circling around.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-11-17 2:15:43 PM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2004-11-17 2:15:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 The Small Diameter Bomb was touched on last night on Mail Call (HST). Looking to be deployed in another year or so.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-17 3:39:27 PM|| 2004-11-17 3:39:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 The Small D is 100 lbs... I thought it was 250... whatever... smaller means more.

Posted by Shipman 2004-11-17 5:06:56 PM|| 2004-11-17 5:06:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Something worth mentioning here is that the drawback to this smaller precision munition and its potential to not cause as much collateral damage is the outcry that will result when something goes awry. The media and a lot of the public are getting/have been spoiled as a result of the last couple of conflicts we've been engaged in where U.S. casualties, collateral damage, and civilian casualties have been relatively light. Never mind that nothing is always perfect; the media and various critics of military action will scream bloody murder if in the future a bomb goes astray by a few feet, misses the target and ends up causing unintended casualties among non-combatants.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-17 6:21:39 PM|| 2004-11-17 6:21:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 B-a-r - And these critics will be the same people who can't match socks, make change, or find their car keys, much less program their VCR / TiVo, lol!

Posted by .com 2004-11-17 7:09:48 PM|| 2004-11-17 7:09:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Wait a damn minute... any person and most shelties can program a TiVo! I have a wager/investment on that.

Posted by Shipman 2004-11-17 7:44:39 PM|| 2004-11-17 7:44:39 PM|| Front Page Top

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