At 80%, the arsenal during the war in Iraq will consist of "smart weapons"

The Pentagon relies on the Smart, controlled by satellites, weapons, microwave bombs and unmanned aircraft to minimize the Baghdad resistance period. As La Stampa writes today (translation on the website inopressa.ru ), the arsenal during the war in Iraq will be 80% of the Smart weapon. During the "storm in the desert" of such combat funds there were only 10%. In 1991, the main weapons of the Americans in the war in the Persian Gulf were Tomahawk missiles and F-117 bombers invisible to radars.

The last generation of the “smart” weapon includes JDAM - Joint Direct Attack Munition - a traditional bomb with a satellite GPS guidance system, capable of conducting a bomb to the very target.

The publication recalls that during a space flight in 2000, Shuttle shuttle ship produced for National Imagery and Mapping Agency, the cartographic control of the Pentagon, and detailed pictures of 80% of the Earth’s surface. Thanks to this information, JDAM bombs can be sent to the facility by military personnel of special units located on the enemy and equipped with special computers. Another advantage of JDAM is that they do not depend on meteorological conditions: it is enough to know where the object is, and the bomb will hit it.

Jsow - Joint Standoff Weapon also belongs to the category of accurate guidance weapons. It is called "Throw and Run" because it can start from an airplane located at a distance of 60 km and at an altitude of 10 thousand meters. The missile is at the target of the Joint Stars radar system installed on the Boeing 707-300 aircraft, reinfected for the military use of the US Air Force.

JDAM and JSOW can be dropped from B2 and B52 bombers, as well as, unlike the 1991 war, from F-15 and F-16 F-16 fighters and F-14 and F-18 US Navy, based on aircraft carriers. In one of the scenarios of the first strike, it was supposed to use 16 b2 in service with JDAM to strike at night at 200 objects. In 1991, this task was performed for two weeks.

The first version of the electronic bomb was tested during the air war against Yugoslavia in 1999. As a result of its use in the cities of Serbia, power lines were disabled. To the present day, “radiating” ammunition has been improved, and it will be used over Baghdad and military facilities in order to disable computers and arms systems, as well as Iraqi command posts.

Thermobaric bombs used in Afghanistan for the "sanitation" of caves where Al-Qaeda militants were hidden will be used against storage facilities of chemical and bacteriological weapons, as these bombs burn longer than usual. They can also be used by marine infantrymen if the fighting will be carried out in cities.

During the new campaign, the widespread use of unmanned aircraft is provided: these are not only Predator CIA spions that can hit moving targets thanks to their Hellfire missiles, but also the Shadow 200 RQ-7A aircraft. These aircraft call the "eyes and ears of the troops" for the ability to tell the soldiers a bypass around the obstacle. As for combat aircraft, the FA 18E/F of the US Navy is expected, called Super-Hornet and the previous samples of 25%that surpasses its size. The novelties in the armored troops include the Abrams M1A2 tank, equipped with an infrared guidance system that allows you to monitor the shot until the target is affected.

Earlier, The Times has already written that the main trump card of the Americans in a possible future operation against Baghdad will be microwave bombs. Then it was reported that using the latest weapons, they will be able to carry out a military operation against Iraq in 10 days.