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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (40344)1/12/2010 6:31:43 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 71588
 
and then use Hellfire missiles that cause far less damage than older bombs or missiles

That's the way things are going.

Rather than

Filling Tritonal, Minol or H6
Filling weight 192 lb (89 kg)
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or

125 pounds (57 kg) hollow charge with contact fuze in A, B, D and H models;
300 pounds (140 kg) high explosive penetrator with delayed fuze in E, F, G, J and K models

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or something bigger, you get

Warhead AFX-757 Dense Inert Metal Explosive
Warhead weight 38 lb (17 kg)[2]
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High Explosive Anti-Tank (HEAT); 20 lb (9 kg) tandem anti-armor
Metal augmented charge (MAC); 18 lb (8 kg) shaped-charge
Blast Fragmentation

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or 10 to 20 lbs of exploses from something like this
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a developing version of the AIM-9 Sidwider that can hit ground targets (again about 20lbs of explosives)

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flightglobal.com

or even
Warhead: 1.05 kg (2.3 lb) (HEAT).
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