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2015-02-26 Science & Technology

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

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Posted by Hupineger Glomomp15056 2015-02-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 I was expecting an Earth-shattering KABOOM.

Posted by SteveS 2015-02-26 01:29|| 2015-02-26 01:29|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-02-26 05:29|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-02-26 13:40|| Front Page Top

#4 SDB, not to be confused with the more common SBD.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-02-26 15:25|| 2015-02-26 15:25|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-02-26 15:30|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-02-26 18:46|| Front Page Top

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