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.....here’s the anatomy of a strike, in this case a September 2014 British Tornado IDS strike against a Ford pickup. First, we lock the target, after making it obvious enough what’s up that the jihadi driver parks the truck and runs for cover.
Next: FOOM. Couldn’t happen to a nicer truck, eh?
Problem is, we just spent somewhere between a half million and a million, and risked at least four aircrew lives, to engage an enemy that wouldn’t exist absent the power vacuum created by us bugging out, and to blow the living daylights out of a (probably empty) $25k truck.
And now we’re running low on the essential ingredients of FOOM.
Nobody has added up the cost. Some of the trucks are being busted by $1 million Tomahawk cruise missiles. And having run out of smarts about bombing, we’re now running out of smart bombs:
back to our CNN story:
The official told CNN that the Air Force has requested additional funding for Hellfire missiles and is developing plans to ramp up weapons production to replenish its stocks more quickly. But replenishing that stock can take “up to four years from time of expenditure to asset resupply,” the official said.
From the comments:
PBAR
December 10, 2015 at 12:34
We are forced to use precision guided munitions by the overly restrictive rules of engagement foisted on CENTCOM by this Administration. When I was deployed over there recently, I talked to some Marine fighter pilots who told us they had been dropping guided bombs on dirt. Yes, dirt, er, I mean, “vehicle revetments” or “assembly areas”, which are the euphemism du jour over there now. Sounds suspiciously like suspected truck parks in the jungle from Vietnam, doesn’t it? The pilots certainly weren’t happy about it and bitterly complained of seeing ISIS guys in their targeting pods nearly every sortie that they weren’t allowed to attack because of collateral damage concerns.
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