PrairieFella
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They don't fly with the Jamners. Growlers do that. They were either bombing targets or they were hunting launchers.
KevinB
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Blast radius being in the above, being the area of dispersion.
20 submunitions in a 8km wide circle.
It is a terror weapon, nothing more. Some of variants have a fragmentation payload, others an incendiary.
Lots of video from these ones.
Some hairy moments for the crews when they hit the ground and locals didn’t initially know who they were.
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The one pilot's hand doesn't look to be in a good way.
His moustache is worse.
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He got shot down because of his poor grooming standards - scraggy beard, unkempt hair etc. <s>
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Agree on the principle but a disagreement on a point of pedantry. He said a blast radius of 8 km or 5 miles. The distance is from the centre of the explosion or the dispersion to the edge.
8 km wide would mean a diameter of 8 km or 5 miles.
The difference is a factor of 4.
If 8 km is the radius then the area is about 200 km2 or 200 grid squares.
If 8 km is the diameter then the area is about 50 km2 or 50 grid squares.
Either way, 20 mortar rounds in 50 or 200 grid squares, they are going to need to pump an awful lot of rockets into that target area to have any kind of militarily useful effect.
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That'll buff right out.
KevinB
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Except that specific missile only covers an area less than 10SQKM . Don't get caught up on the term he is used -- just accept the physical specifics. It is a efficient system - as it requires a Anti-Missile Missile to intercept it before payload release, and those are expensive - and it is awkward for the Phalanx type guns to engage as you need a bunch of them to cover the area - and it will release it's submunitions before it gets into range - which makes for a lot more targets.Agree on the principle but a disagreement on a point of pedantry. He said a blast radius of 8 km or 5 miles. The distance is from the centre of the explosion or the dispersion to the edge.
8 km wide would mean a diameter of 8 km or 5 miles.
The difference is a factor of 4.
If 8 km is the radius then the area is about 200 km2 or 200 grid squares.
If 8 km is the diameter then the area is about 50 km2 or 50 grid squares.
Either way, 20 mortar rounds in 50 or 200 grid squares, they are going to need to pump an awful lot of rockets into that target area to have any kind of militarily useful effect.
The effect is to drain AMM's and sow fear into a population -- in this respect it seems to have an opposite effect, and just passing everyone off that. The question remains on how many AMM's have been drained - and is Iran able to continue to deplete stocks. As well as how others are seeing this - as opportunity or cause for pause.
Iran (and others) have larger unitary warheads - those landing in population sites would cause a lot more casualties -- however as they are a one piece - they only need one interception.
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