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Small Diameter Bomb II Completes Live Fire Test Destroying T-72 Tank
2015-02-26


Posted by:Hupineger Glomomp15056

#6  All this talk about about bombing stuff and making life hard for the ISIS turds makes me think that its time for some of our avaitors to dust off Stephen Coontz's "Flight of the Intruder" and change Hanoi to ISIS targets and take the fight downtown in spite of the micromanagement the Rice in Chief's target selection yahtzee cup toss.
Posted by: USN, Ret   2015-02-26 18:46  

#5  A friend of mine was a RIO (back seat driver ) on an F-4. His motto was "Don't get me a better bomb sight. Get me a bigger bomb"

Of course, that was during a less kind, less gentle era.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2015-02-26 15:30  

#4  SDB, not to be confused with the more common SBD.
Posted by: OldSpook   2015-02-26 15:25  

#3  The Russian Federation has over 5,000 T-72 tanks in use, including around 2,000 in active service and 3,000 in reserves...The T-72 has been used by over 40 countries worldwide.

Some countries using variants of the T-72 (bold added for topical relevance):

Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzogovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, Georgia, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Yemen.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-02-26 13:40  

#2  The T-72 is a Soviet second-generation main battle tank that entered production in 1971

Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-02-26 05:29  

#1  I was expecting an Earth-shattering KABOOM.
Posted by: SteveS   2015-02-26 01:29  

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