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	Precision-guided munition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Precision-guided munitions (smart munitions or smart bombs) are self-guiding weapons intended to maximize damage to the target while minimizing "collateral damage".
		They were equipped with television cameras and steerable flare sights, in which the bomb would be steered until the flare superimposed the target.
		Because it is possible to jam GPS, the bomb reverts to inertial navigation in the event of losing the GPS signal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Smart_bomb (808 words)

	Bambooweb: Smart bomb
		Smart weapons were put in the media spotlight during Operation Desert Storm when they were used by coalition forces against Iraq.
		The first smart bombs were equipped with television cameras and steerable flare sighted bombs.
		On the other hand, most smart bomb misses are caused by system failures – a jammed steering fin, computer failure, loss of homing signal, etc. In this case, the weapon is actually more likely to miss the target by a very large distance, than by a small distance.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/s/m/Smart_bomb.html (623 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Smart Bombs Work"
		A conventional bomb consists of some explosive material packed into a sturdy case with a fuze mechanism (yes, that's fuze, not fuse).
		A "dumb bomb" is a bomb with only these elements, dropped from an airplane (such as the B-2 bomber).
		The bomb is considered "dumb" because it simply falls to the ground without actively steering itself.
	science.howstuffworks.com /smart-bomb.htm (204 words)

	'Smart bombs' move to center stage in US arsenal \| csmonitor.com
		During the Gulf War, smart bombs were only about a tenth of the munitions used - but they accounted for nearly 75 percent of the targets that were successfully hit, says Air Force historian Richard Hallion.
		Still, as the accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade by US smart bombs suggests, even the best weapons are only as good as the human intelligence that guides them.
		Laser-guided bombs cannot be used in cloudy, dusty, or smoky conditions, since laser seekers require a clear line of sight.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0320/p06s01-woiq.htm (981 words)

	Even smart bombs miss their mark sometimes
		During the Persian Gulf War, when television images of smart bombs dropping down ventilator shafts were a popular feature of Pentagon briefings, only about 10 percent of the munitions used were precision-guided.
		In the case of the bomb that missed its target by a mile, it's possible that at some point the wrong global positioning coordinates were programmed into the bomb, Mr.
		Smart bombs are believed to hit their targets about 80 percent to 90 percent of the time; dumb bombs hit their targets about 10 percent of the time, Mr.
	www.globalsecurity.org /org/news/2001/011018-attack06.htm (661 words)

	'Smarter' Bombs Still Hit Civilians
		One reason was that the improved accuracy of "smart" bombs "emboldened commanders to aim more bombs at targets that required it," he says – leading to more frequent misses.
		The bombing was the "single largest incident of collateral damage that has ever occurred in modern warfare," he says, and it impacted both sides in the war.
		Traditional laser-guided bombs were often used on mobile, short notice targets called in – and sometimes "painted" with a laser –; by US Special Forces units on the ground.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines02/1022-01.htm (1529 words)

	Smart bombs, dumb targeting? \| thebulletin.org
		The Lola Utva plant was a "military target." Yet the bombing of this military target was a microcosm of everything that was good and bad about the Yugoslav air war.
		In fact, the most worrisome observation was that the very people who made the decision to go to war and who thus laid out the objectives for the air campaign did not seem to really understand their opponent.
		A single bomb dropped on an outdoor transformer station dispenses a spidery latticework adding up to more than 900 kilometers of threads, the distance from Washington to a point somewhere in the woods north of Montreal.
	www.thebulletin.org /article.php?art_ofn=mj00arkin_039 (3710 words)

	Smart Bombs, Obtuse Commentators
		Now that the forces are finally on their way, their enthusiasm bursts forth, not merely about the very outbreak of the war, but about the sophisticated equipment being used.
		The smart bombs and the guided missiles, the satellite navigation and the turbofan engines, the Stealth bombers and the mega-bombs are firing their imagination.
		The smart bomb that Mizrahi brought was passed from hand to hand in the studio and the elderly generals fondled it reverently.
	www.rense.com /general36/smsl.htm (775 words)

	Smart Bombs, Dumb Sanctions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In much of the outside world, the U.S.-led bombing campaigns against Iraq that have been launched periodically since the end of the Persian Gulf war in 1991 are viewed as devastating though perhaps necessary assaults.
		They say that bombings are increasingly precise and all but harmless to civilians, while economic sanctions devastate their entire society.
		A bomb is something you hear far away, or at worst, it kills you in a second.
	www.library.cornell.edu /colldev/mideast/smrtbmb.htm (1014 words)

	CNN.com In-Depth Specials - Gulf War
		"Smart weapons" saw their first use in the Vietnam War, in the form of bombs that glided along a laser beam to their targets.
		In Desert Storm, a smart bomb provided one of the most memorable television clips of the war, pinpointing an elevator shaft at the Iraqi Air Force headquarters in Baghdad.
		Newer generations of plane-launched smart bombs and missiles also help keep pilots safe, operating from what the military calls "stand-off" distance -- outside the range of anti-aircraft weapons that may be guarding the target.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2001/gulf.war/legacy/airstrikes/index.html (640 words)

	CNN - Air Force rolls out 'smarter' smart bombs - Oct. 18, 1996
		The bombs are the first non-nuclear weapons designed for use by the delta-winged B-2 Stealth Bomber, which has been largely without a mission since the end of the Cold War.
		Video tapes of the test run show that the bombs were accurate to within 20 feet of their targets after being dropped from 41,000 feet at a distance of more than six miles from a Stealth Bomber.
		Other "smart bombs" depend on laser guidance systems that can be adversely affected by clouds and foul weather.
	www.cnn.com /US/9610/18/smart.bomb (431 words)

	U.S. banking more on smart bombs
		Greater use of "smart" bombs -- guided to their targets by laser beams or Global Positioning Satellite -- also should help reduce collateral damage.
		About 70 percent of the bombs used in Iraq will be precision-guided, compared to 20 percent during Desert Storm in 1991.
		Smart bombs usually hit within 21 feet of an intended target, compared with 200 feet for their "dumb" or unguided counterparts.
	www.postgazette.com /World/20030320warsmartbombsworld5p5.asp (799 words)

	Nuclear Bombs and Smart Bombs (from bomb) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Like a regular bomb, a smart bomb falls to the target solely by the force of gravity, but its fins or wings have control surfaces that move in response to guidance commands, enabling adjustments to be made to the angle of the bomb's descent or the direction of its fall.
		In military science, the term “aerial bomb” or “bomb” denotes a container dropped from an aircraft and designed to cause destruction by the detonation of a high-explosive...
		The high temperatures that are required for the reaction are produced by the detonation of an atomic bomb.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-197722?tocId=197722&ct= (991 words)

	How Smart Are Our Smart Bombs? - They're better than ever, but they still won't topple Saddam. By Fred Kaplan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Those nifty shots of a bomb slicing an Iraqi bridge in two or darting straight down the chimney of Iraq's military-intelligence headquarters were the exceptions, not the rule.
		The new smart bombs are guided to their targets by Global Positioning Satellites, in much the same way that the GPS system in your new car guides you to your destination.
		The GPS tells the bomb where it is, where it's going, and where it's supposed to go, until it arrives on target—plus or minus three feet, on average (an astonishing level of precision)—and explodes.
	slate.msn.com /?id=2072709 (2077 words)

	Smart Bombs or Rocks for Brains?
		Bombing a target in a civilian enclave can wreak unintended havoc on homes, schools, and businesses, no matter how accurate the bomb's guidance system.
		Concrete bombs have been used for decades for military training and testing, but this is the first time the US has acknowledged their use in combat.
		According to the Operation Northern Watch Website, the operation's purpose is "enforcing the no-fly zone north of the 36th parallel in Iraq and monitoring Iraqi compliance with UN Security Council resolutions 678, 687, and 688," which limit Iraq's weapons programs and condemn internal repression of Iraqis.
	www.mojones.com /news_wire/concrete.html (1157 words)

	Termonuclear Weapons and Conventional Bombs
		These smart missiles have advanced tracking and avoidance systems that give them a +5 to strike, +4 to dodge, and 2 attacks per melee until they strike their target or run out of fuel.
		All thermonuclear missiles are treated as Cruise Missiles in terms of carrying capacity; thermonuclear bombs use the same payload table as conventional bombs.
		All thermonuclear weapons are considered to be either smart bombs or smart missiles.
	www.geocities.com /TimesSquare/8976/thermnuc.htm (687 words)

	Dumb Bombs & Smart Munitions
		* The aerial bomb was one of the twentieth century's innovations in warfare, and has proven decisive in many conflicts.
		With the development of advanced electronic sensor and guidance systems, and improved jet and rocket propulsion, weapons designers have been able to improve on bomb technology to build "smart" bombs and missiles that can perform precision attacks on targets.
		This document provides a survey of unguided "dumb" or "iron" aerial bombs, and air-launched "smart" bombs and missiles.
	www.vectorsite.net /twbomb.html (240 words)

	Pravda.RU:Smart Bombs of Mad America
		Cbu-97 bombs will be used against Saddam’s tanks, each of the bombs issues 40 “smart missiles” covering the area of 120 square meters.
		Two most respectable newspapers of the Old World, Le Monde and The Times, published a diagnosis set by European intellectual elite to America and its leaders with their “smart” bombs and missiles: they stated the USA is struck with madness.
		“Smart” missiles and bombs in the hands of mad politicians are the greatest danger for the human civilization.
	english.pravda.ru /main/2003/01/24/42475_.html (1054 words)

	Smart Bombs, Dumb Targets - Did overconfidence in precision targeting cause civilian deaths in Iraq? By Fred Kaplan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The bombs were as accurate as advertised; they hit precisely where they were aimed.
		The bombs that were dropped on these targets are accurate to within 10 meters.
		Had the bombs been considered so inaccurate that they would land, on average, 100 meters from a target (a pretty dumb bomb), no U.S. commander would have dropped them on a residential area in the hopes of killing an Iraqi leader who was thought to be somewhere in the neighborhood.
	slate.msn.com /id/2092759 (1164 words)

	US to sell Israel 5000 smart bombs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In one such instance in July 2002, a one-tonne bomb meant for a senior Palestinian resistance fighter also killed 15 civilians in an attack in the Gaza Strip.
		These bombs are guided by an existing Israeli satellite used by the military.
		In addition to American bombs, Israel has used US-made F-16 fighter jets to kill several senior Palestinian resistance fighters whom Tel Aviv accused of overseeing attacks in the four years of the ongoing intifada.
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/september2004/210904sellisrael.htm (317 words)

	US to sell 5,000 smart bombs to Israel: report
		Israel is set to buy 5,000 smart bombs from the United States in one of the Jewish state's largest weapons deals in recent years, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Tuesday.
		The bombs are all guided by a satellite system, which sends a signal to the devices to adjust their course to the target.
		Smart bombs are intended to inflict maximum damage to the target and minimize the effect of the impact outside of the target, so-called "collateral damage".
	www.spacewar.com /2004/040921095723.f4xp4ji3.html (563 words)

	Report: U.S. Will Sell Israel Smart Bombs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		JERUSALEM - The United States will sell Israel nearly 5,000 smart bombs in one of the largest weapons deals between the allies in years, the Haaretz newspaper reported Tuesday.
		The bombs are guided by an existing Israeli satellite used by the military.
		In addition to American bombs, Israel has used U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets in several killings of senior Palestinian militants whom Israel accused of overseeing attacks in the four years of fighting.
	www.palestinemonitor.org /new_web/US_sell_israel_smart_bombs.htm (267 words)

	U.S. to Sell Smart Bombs, Armored Vehicles To Israel
		The United States will sell Israel nearly 5,000 smart bombs in one of the largest weapons deals between the allies in years.
		Among the bombs the air force will get are 500 one-ton bunker busters that can penetrate two-meter-thick cement walls; 2,500 regular one-ton bombs; 1,000 half-ton bombs; and 500 quarter-ton bombs.
		The bombs Israel is acquiring include airborne versions, guidance units, training bombs and detonators.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/US-Israel/bombsale.html (286 words)

	CNN.com In-Depth Specials - Gulf War
		Black and white pictures from the alliance underscored the accuracy of so-called "smart bombs," designed to surgically strike pre-selected targets.
		But smart bombs made up less than 5 percent of all the ordnance used against Iraq during Desert Storm.
		Both the allied strategic bombing campaign and the sanctions were used by Hussein to unite his people against the West -- to portray Iraq as a David forced to do battle with Goliath.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2001/gulf.war/unfinished/war/index1.html (1569 words)

	TechyVent/Pittsburgh: Do You Employ Smart Bombs or Cruise Missiles? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A smart bomb (we’ll now go to the shorthand, “SB”) is someone whom you must “mind” well after the time that he or she (and we’ll also now go to, “all feminine/all the time” for gender-referencing) is “launched.”
		As mentioned, an SB has to be continually directed and controlled “post-launch.” So if you have to continually remind yourself to check on the current progress of the job that she was tasked to perform, then you are in essence managing a Smart Bomb.
		So if you must employ a Smart Bomb then you need to always see where she is headed (today’s smart bombs have cameras for this), and you must also incessantly “re-target” her (here, smart bombs use fins and propellers or even rockets) right up until the time she explodes on contact.
	www.imakenews.com /techyvent/e_article000122732.cfm (1160 words)

	War Technology - From e-bombs (electromagnetic pulse bombs) to smart bombs to revamped, revised cruise missiles
		It is an air to surface glide missile with various capabilities including the single 1,000-pound warhead, armor piercing bomblets (little bombs inside a large bomb) or a soft bomb containing filaments that short circuit power lines.
		This kit turns the old free-falling "dumb bomb" into a "smart bomb" capable of a surgical strike.
		This is a relatively new bomb, which is designed specifically for use on the F117 Nighthawk Stealth Fighter-Bomber.
	www.coursework.info /i/35191.html (369 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| Smart bombs 'missed Iraqi targets'
		Last August, it emerged that the accuracy rate of bombs dropped by British forces during the 1999 Kosovo conflict was only 40%.
		Analysts say the new bombs should be highly accurate because they rely on satellites rather than lasers, giving them an all-weather capability lacking in earlier versions of smart munitions.
		The RAF used older laser-guided bombs to hit a single target array and a Ministry of Defence spokesman in London told the BBC that they were "entirely content with their success rate".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/1184086.stm (424 words)

	USATODAY.com - JDAM smart bombs prove to be accurate and a good buy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The bombs are then sent to military bases, where warheads and fuses are added.
		Laser-guided bombs, which are more precise, can cost thousands of dollars, while even more precise television-guided munitions can cost $1 million.
		The first JDAM bombs — 652 — were dropped by the Air Force in the Kosovo war.
	www.usatoday.com /money/world/iraq/2003-03-23-jdam_x.htm (1249 words)

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