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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: LindyBill who wrote (45789)9/24/2002 3:50:05 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
Hi LindyBill; Re: "He knows it, Carl. You missed the sequence. These bombs are recent, and overall better than the Lazer guided."

The eternal promise of precision guided munitions is one bomb one kill. That promise predates the Gulf war, but the GAO study proved that it was a lie.

So the air force says that now they have achieved one bomb one kill? Why would anyone believe them. These claims date back to the Vietnam war.

Even with perfect GPS coordinates you still have plenty of problems for bombs:

(a) The coordinates are obtained inaccurately (i.e. with a laser that has the same inaccuracy that the laser guided bombs did.

(b) The other side builds very large numbers of spoof targets, just like they did in the last Gulf war, except they've have 12 years to improve on it, and a longer time frame to get ready.

(c) Dispersion of forces eliminates any advantage that air dropped munitions give. JDAMs are too expensive to use on snipers. In addition, individual soldiers can see the planes in the air and will be less likely to sit in one place. Humans don't like to be killed.

-- Carl

P.S. I can't believe how many posts I have to catch up with. I probably won't read them, so if there's anything I should read, please send me a PM.
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