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2014-10-25 Iraq

More than 1,700 bombs dropped in US-led air war

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Posted by Fred 2014-10-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
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#1 Let's suppose at least one IS "soldier" is killed with each bomb. Where are the casualties?

Posted by gorb 2014-10-25 00:15|| 2014-10-25 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Interesting question. Here's another - why does it take an average of nearly four sorties to drop a single bomb?

I suppose some planes might even drop multiple bombs, meaning 75-80% of the ordinance comes back to base - unused. We're wasting a lot of JP-4.

Posted by Bobby 2014-10-25 09:44|| 2014-10-25 09:44|| Front Page Top

#3 My guess:

1) Recon
2) Bomb
3) Bomb damage assessment
4) Rebomb to clean up targets missed

Posted by badanov 2014-10-25 09:48|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2014-10-25 09:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Bad, you send a plane out with a couple bombs and a recon pod. On the way out it takes pictures of a previously bombed target and on the way back it can take pics of a not-yet-bombed target.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-10-25 09:51|| 2014-10-25 09:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Interesting question. Here's another - why does it take an average of nearly four sorties to drop a single bomb?

Been a while since I've done any air-ground operations, and I've never had anything to do with Naval Air, but I suspect many of the sorties are recce, targeting missions.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-10-25 10:02|| 2014-10-25 10:02|| Front Page Top

This little bastid (Tiger Shark UAV) saves a lot of AVGAS and pilot recce flight hours. Of course you have to be close enough to the fight to use it.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-10-25 10:09|| 2014-10-25 10:09|| Front Page Top

#7 More than 1,700 bombs dropped in US-led air war

..and that was just at the White House press briefings (punctuated with "Me, myself, and I")

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-10-25 10:47|| 2014-10-25 10:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Also every refueling tanker, AWAC flight and support flight is a sortie. Hence the large sortie vs bomb number.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-10-25 16:31|| 2014-10-25 16:31|| Front Page Top

#9 "Operation Inherent Resolve?" That's a crappy name for an operation. Inherent resolve to do what; to not hurt anyone? Inherent resolve is dropping a bomb every 2-2.5 missions?

Posted by JohnQC 2014-10-25 18:14|| 2014-10-25 18:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Instead of "Inherent Resolve", a more accurate name would have been "We're going in half-assed and hope to wear them out".

Posted by gorb 2014-10-25 20:34|| 2014-10-25 20:34|| Front Page Top

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