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Offline Buzzard7

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Re: gaza
« Reply #15 on: January 05, 2009, 01:10:08 PM »
Look at the top of it looks like riveted door. Gotta be a drop tank.

Why not drop it over the city you are bombing? It can do some damage too. Might be a mistake that the pilot let it go or it may have been knocked off by ground fire.
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Offline Elfie

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Re: gaza
« Reply #16 on: January 05, 2009, 01:14:00 PM »
Drop tanks don't have riveted doors on them.
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Offline Chalenge

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Re: gaza
« Reply #17 on: January 05, 2009, 01:29:11 PM »
It is (I believe) a GBU-28 with the 'smart' sections missing due to impact (most likely). With 650 pounds of tritonal inside I would not want to be within a mile of it. No telling what was in the target structure but this would certainly penetrate some very hard structures and when the bang comes...
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Offline indy007

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Re: gaza
« Reply #18 on: January 05, 2009, 01:35:19 PM »
Quote from: Chalenge on January 05, 2009, 01:29:11 PM
It is (I believe) a GBU-28 with the 'smart' sections missing due to impact (most likely). With 650 pounds of tritonal inside I would not want to be within a mile of it. No telling what was in the target structure but this would certainly penetrate some very hard structures and when the bang comes...

Not even close to a GBU-28, the shape is totally wrong. A -28 has a straight body. That one is clearly tapered along its length.
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Offline Chalenge

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Re: gaza
« Reply #19 on: January 05, 2009, 01:45:59 PM »
Your right... could be a 31 which I believe was the final development of smart bombs for the F-15E.
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Offline Roundeye

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Re: gaza
« Reply #20 on: January 05, 2009, 01:47:34 PM »
Maybe its a smart drop tank. :rofl
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Offline Hornet33

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« Reply #21 on: January 05, 2009, 01:58:04 PM »
Considering the "body" of the thing isn't damaged in any way you can pretty much rule out a drop tank. Drop tanks are made out of sheet metal and designed to be as light as possible when empty. Drop one through a concrete wall and the thing will look like a crushed beer can when it's all over.

That thing in the picture looks like a standard Mk-83 1000lb bomb with the tail fins ripped off.
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Offline Chalenge

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Re: gaza
« Reply #22 on: January 05, 2009, 02:24:39 PM »
That was the first thing I looked at (GBU type) but it didnt match. The 2000 lb version looks about right.
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Offline Jappa52

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Re: gaza
« Reply #23 on: January 05, 2009, 02:28:25 PM »
Quote from: Chalenge on January 05, 2009, 02:24:39 PM
That was the first thing I looked at (GBU type) but it didnt match. The 2000 lb version looks about right.

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Offline DJ111

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Re: gaza
« Reply #24 on: January 05, 2009, 02:28:47 PM »
Its a big freakin bomb.

That's all I need to know.
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Offline indy007

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Re: gaza
« Reply #25 on: January 05, 2009, 02:39:03 PM »
Quote from: Hornet33 on January 05, 2009, 01:58:04 PM
Considering the "body" of the thing isn't damaged in any way you can pretty much rule out a drop tank. Drop tanks are made out of sheet metal and designed to be as light as possible when empty. Drop one through a concrete wall and the thing will look like a crushed beer can when it's all over.

That thing in the picture looks like a standard Mk-83 1000lb bomb with the tail fins ripped off.

There's a puncture hole on the lower left hand side of it. There's no visible markings where fins would have been ripped off. No ridges, no shreds of stubble sticking off.

Looks like a drop tank to me. Only think that would confirm it is to spin it around and look for the mounting point. :(
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Re: gaza
« Reply #26 on: January 05, 2009, 02:45:28 PM »
Quote from: DJ111 on January 05, 2009, 02:28:47 PM
Its a big freakin bomb.

That's all I need to know.
Yea and they spent aton of tax payers money for something that didnt even work :aok
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Re: gaza
« Reply #27 on: January 05, 2009, 04:22:17 PM »
Quote from: JunkyII on January 05, 2009, 02:45:28 PM
Yea and they spent aton of tax payers money for something that didnt even work :aok

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Re: gaza
« Reply #28 on: January 05, 2009, 05:45:00 PM »
Quote from: JunkyII on January 05, 2009, 02:45:28 PM
Yea and they spent aton of tax payers money for something that didnt even work :aok

What exactly is the tax rate in Israel now?  :eek:
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Offline splitatom

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Re: gaza
« Reply #29 on: January 05, 2009, 06:11:46 PM »
they might have been using napalm and it didnt explode and i dont think the isralies use lazer guided or gps guided bombs
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