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1. David Axe says:

   January 27, 2006 at 10:59 am

   Nicholas,
   Actually, that’s 200 bombs, not 2,000, and most flights return to Al Asad with­out expend­ing ord­nance. Most flights are ded­i­cated solely to recon.
   Cheers.

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2. Nicholas weaver says:

   January 27, 2006 at 2:48 pm

   AHHH. Me brain dam­aged…
   200 is a much more rea­son­able num­ber, but still wor­ry­ingly high. How many squadrons are there?
   If 4/​target, thats only 50 incidents.

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3. Edward Liu says:

   January 27, 2006 at 3:08 pm

   What kind of weirds me about this is the idea that 2 F/A-18’s dumped their entire pay­load, includ­ing 20mm, on a batch of insur­gents, but still found it nec­es­sary to fly back to base for more bombs and fly back out.
   This isn’t meant as a crit­i­cism of the Marine avi­a­tors at all, mind you. I real­ize that this sort of thing can hap­pen, as it did dur­ing the repeated airstrikes in the bat­tle at Roberts’ Ridge dur­ing Anaconda. But jeez! What were those insur­gents made of? Concrete?

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4. jtw says:

   January 27, 2006 at 3:19 pm

   GUess that 100 bil­lion + dol­lars for guided weapons didnt pay off in the accu­racy depart­ment.
   I seen on the Military chan­nel a show that told the story of some rangers or marines (or some­thing) on top of a moun­tain in afghanistan, and there was a bunker of afghani bad guys on the top of the moun­tain.
   3 planes dropped their entire ord­nance and missed the bunker com­pletely. The sol­diers were 100 meters away from the bunker so the planes were try­ing not ot hit them and try and over­shoot the bunker a lit­tle bit. They couldnt get the bunker in the end.
   The sol­diers had to charge the bunker to finally take it(cant remem­ber if they actu­ally did). Think some of them got hurt.
   3cm accu­racy for a guided weapon is what they say, I guess not.

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5. David Axe says:

   January 28, 2006 at 2:29 am

   Jeez, you guys … okay, for starters, there wasn’t just ONE insur­gent tak­ing on these Marines. There were many, in dif­fer­ent posi­tions. As for the accu­racy of the avi­a­tors’ ord­nance, who says they didn’t hit where aimed? In fact, they did, all of them, and on that November mis­sion, two jets deliv­ered at least four bombs and two entire loads of 20-​​millimeter accu­rately.
   Cheers.

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6. James Parker says:

   January 30, 2006 at 6:03 am

   Bring back the OV-​​10 Bronco! per­fect for Iraq, it’s small, quick and lightly armored, and the ordanance options pack a major punch, would be use­ful for Close Air Support and it’s more maneu­ver­able than any helicopter.

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