[Bruce_the_vii]

Where's the mass produced TV bomb. If they can make a PC for a thousand dollars they could mass produced a small TV bomb for $20,000. A jet would carry several, wouldn't have the problem with collateral damage and could strike smaller target such as armed vehicles. The efficiency of the jet fleet would be multiplied. Yet all I read about is these laser guided bombs which are 500 pounds. $20,000 is cheap relative to the cost of the jet fleet. Call Japan Inc already.

[DrCaleb]

Pretty much everything on TV is a bomb right now. Especially programs where people think they can dance.

[raydan]

DrCaleb wrote:

Pretty much everything on TV is a bomb right now. Especially programs where people think they can dance.

...or sing, or have talent, or have a life we're actually interested in.

[herbie]

Business Rule #1
You don't give a break to government. You have to do all their dirty work for them, unpaid. Fuck them.
$20,000,000 for a $20,000 bomb.

[SprCForr]

They are still in the inventory. Walleye comes to mind. Laser guided is more accurate, you're not steering a bomb, but pointing a computer aided laser and the bomb falls on it.

[Bruce_the_vii]

A TV bomb would be deadly. It could strategically take out the cracking tower on an oil refinery while leaving the entire rest of the refinery intact. I know they exist but they prefer these laser guided monstrosities - which have a accuracy of 10 M or something. The number of strategic targets in a small country is relatively few. Accurate bombs would be weapons of mass destruction.

[SprCForr]

The problem is steering them, that's why LGM have eclipsed TV guided munitions.

To use the cracking tower example, the weapon is released at height and you've got to steer it into the tower. Easy when you're up high, but ground rush is going to totally destroy your perception and reaction time. TV guided is good for things that are horizontal, linear and large like bridges and causeways and the like. LGM can do that job too, in spades.

Then there's the logistic aspect, the training aspect, the tactical employment issue...

[Bruce_the_vii]

SprCForr wrote:

The problem is steering them, that's why LGM have eclipsed TV guided munitions.

To use the cracking tower example, the weapon is released at height and you've got to steer it into the tower. Easy when you're up high, but ground rush is going to totally destroy your perception and reaction time. TV guided is good for things that are horizontal, linear and large like bridges and causeways and the like. LGM can do that job too, in spades.

Then there's the logistic aspect, the training aspect, the tactical employment issue...

I don't know how they work in practice, thanks for the ABC. I imagined they had to be quite sophisticated and steerable to hit a two foot target at jet speeds. Nevertheless here in Ontario the number of critical targets is quite small. There are only two oil refineries in Toronto, some more in Sarnia. The electrical substations are few as well. A place like Ontario could be paralysised rather quickly.