I was talking to a missionary friend to Uganda on furlow last night at church.
Like those idiots don't know their firearms, don't expect those dimwits to know anything about bombs ether.
US GP bombs are always that poop brown color anyway...except for the stripes.. or messages to the enemy.
When I came on active duty there were still plenty of fellow airmen who had been to Iran, Libya, and Lebanon before the crazies took over to liberate everybody back to 7th century Islam. They were nice places and most of the people relatively friendly and sensible.
I dunno. Lets send them some CBU-87 or CBU-103 instead. Then the Liberals will have something to cry about.
He was either an F-14 pilot or RIO. He knows a thing or two about munitions.
.... if they were designed to shoot at other planes.
Like @BigMoose said, Tomcat was air-to-air. Plus I never give gun-grabbers the benefit of the doubt.
While they are quite expensive, the Sensor Fused Weapon is delivered by a CBU-103. Or were you kickin it old school with cluster bombs. Some explode on impact, some explode when you step on them, some explode in 20 minutes if stepped on or not.
Tomcat became bombcat some time after Gulf War 1 and was quite effective at it. The Tomcat community is tight, so he'd be close with plenty of colleagues with air to ground experience even if he didn't have it. He's forgotten more about munitions than most of us here will ever know.
It was quite proficient with the big guided bombs. And as I said, he gets briefed by those who do know. He's on the armed services committee. He gets briefed on stuff you and I will never know.
As long as you don't say he can walk and chew gum...
