Want to know figures of Iraq War eg,no. and types bombs
dropped,
readiness of warplanes etc.
1.http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/2003/uscentaf_oif_report_30apr2003.pdf
JADM
Laser Guided
Bomb
Global
Positioning System Aided Munition
And the laser-guided bombs were expensivearound $100,000
apiece. JDAMs are guided by Global Positioning Satellites. The
pilot punches the target's coordinates into the bomb's GPS receiver
andthe bomb homes in on the spot; environmental conditions aren't a
factor. And they're cheapa JDAM kit can be strapped onto an
old-fashioned "dumb bomb" for $18,000.
However, it turns out that of the 19,948 smart munitions fired
during Gulf War II, 8,716two-fifthswere the '90s-era laser-guided
bombs. Substantially fewer, 6,642, were JDAMs. The other 4,590
smart weapons were GPS-guided but much more expensive models than
the JDAM.
More surprising, another 9,251 bombsor one-third of all the bombs
dropped during this warwere unguided, unmodified dumb bombs. It
would be good to know where these dumb bombsand the less-reliable
laser-guided bombswere dropped: on the battlefield, in cities? In
other words, was "collateral damage" a greater problem than our
vision of a JDAM-dominating war suggested?
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http://www.defensetech.org/archives/cat_ammo_and_munitions.html
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