Heute haben die US-Bomber begonnen,5000 Pfund schwere Block Buster Bomben gegen den Feind einzusetzen,der sich in tief eingegrabenen Bunkern,Höhlen undTunneln verbirgt sagte Defense Official Knight Ridder gestern abend.
„Jetzt ist die Zeit ,um die Linie in den Sand zu zeichnen gegen die Üblen“sagte President Bush Mittwoch früh während die B1-Bomber,die die massiven Waffen transportierten,über die Wüste Afghanistans röhrten.Als die neue Welle der Bomber die afghanische Hauptstadt Kabul am Donnerstag morgen traf am fünften Tag des Luftkrieges,wurde ein anderes Ziel deutlich:
zerstöre und demoralisiere die Führer der Talibans und Osama bin Ladens AlQuaida Terror Netzwerk
mit Laser- und Satellitengesteuerten Bomben,die so mächtig sind,dass sie Bunker und Höhlen zerstören können.Ein US Defense Senior Official sagte,ein B2 Stealth Bomber warf die erste Block Buster am Dienstag auf eine Konzentration von Talibantruppen und Waffen.B1- Bomber trugen weitere am Mittwoch und dies lässt vermuten,dass die Anstrengungen,die Talibankämpfer zu demoralisieren und unterirdische Bunker zu treffen,die von den Taliban benutzt werden,,erhöht wurden .
Die GBU 28 (Guided Bomb Unit)und GBU 37 Bunker Buster sind entwickelt ,um sich 6-33m tief in die Erde zu graben,bevor sie explodieren.Diese weitgehend geheimen Waffen wurden erstmalig im
Golfkrieg benutzt.Angeblich existieren ca 100 Stück.
Laut US und britischen Officials könnten niedrig fliegende Helikopter Spezialeinheiten und andere Bodentruppen bereits nächste Woche ins feindliche Gebiet bringen.
B1Lancer und B2 Heavy Bomber hätten die Block buster gegen Untergrundziele eingesetzt,sagte ein anderer Senior Defense Official.
Die 19feet langen geflügelten Bomber wurden das erste Mal am 27.2. 1991 eingesetzt ,um tief eingegrabene irakische Militärbunker und unterirdische Kommandoposten und Residenzen von Saddam Hussein zu zerstören.Sie kamen diesmal von der britischen Militärbasis im Indischen Ozean Diego Garcia. 10 B-1's and B-52 Stratofortresses ,ebenfalls von Diego Garcia kommend,und eine nicht genau bekannte Anzahl von Navy F-14 Tomcats and F/A-18 Hornets jetfighters von den Aircraft Carriers trafen Ziele in Afghanistan am Mittwoch.2 Wellen trafen den Flughafen von Kabul,12 Bomben fielen in das Stadtzentrum von Kabul..
Bereits vor den Angriffen am Mittwoch sagte die Afghan Islamic Press dass die Angriffe 76 Leute getötet und mehr als 100 verletzt hatten.Es war nicht klar,ob auch Zivilisten getroffen wurden.
Die meisten Truppen und Fahrzeuge die getroffen wurden,waren in Nordafghanistan.Die Taliban werden hier von der 055 Brigade unterstützt,einer hochtrainierten und bestens bewaffneten Einheit von Arabern und Nichtafghanen,organisiert und bezahlt von bin Laden..
Geheimdienstreporte lassen vermuten,dass viele der Leute aus bin Ladens Camp an die Nordfront gegangen sind und sich nicht in den Höhlen und Tunneln aufhalten,wie die US Officials vermuten .
In Washington benannte President Bush die Liste mit den 22 meistgesuchten Terroristen und wiederholte sein Versprechen,sie auszuräuchern und zu neutralisieren.“Sie müssen gefunden werden,sie werden gestoppt werden und sie werden bestraft werden.Keine Ecke der Welt wird dunkel genug sein ,sich zu verstecken.
Martin Merzer and Jonathan S. Landay. Merzer reports for the Miami Herald.
http://quotes.freerealtime.com/dl/frt/...ource=2&artType=1&artId=8771
(Es ist übrigens umstritten,ob der Einsatz im Irak so erfolgreich war,wie man dachte.)
B2 BomberLaser-guided "Bunker Buster" bombs, which can weigh up to 2,270 kilograms (5,000 pounds), look like thin missiles, about 584 centimeters (230 inches) in length. They can "destroy targets buried six, nine or even over 30.5 meters down (20, 30 or 100 feet), such as an arsenal or a military communications centre".
Dropped from a high altitude, the bombs, which have long cylindrical warheads, can determine their own rate of penetration through concrete and various densities of earth. Thanks to "very precise fuses (the bombs) can be set to go off, for example, after slamming through the third floor of an underground bunker."
In the face of threats posed by stocks of chemical or bacteriological weapons, which might be released into the atmosphere by ordinary bombing, the Air Force weapon development centre has come up with a new type of deep-penetration incendiary bomb designed to incinerate the target. Only one test has been carried out at a bunker.
Other types of ordnance developed here include missiles, which when dropped from the air divide into bomblets that automatically scan the battlefield with infra-red sensors before zooming off in persuit of a target, such as a tank.
In case of a strike against Iraq "these weapons will make a difference". Weapons are now tailored much more to specific threats, can hit multiple targets and have a much better "stand-off capability", allowing pilots to fire at the enemy from a greater distance. "What should worry an Iraqi commander is the surgical precision" of these new weapons.
The biggest difference between 1991 and today is that "now more aircraft have precision weapons" which allow them to score nearly one "kill" for every weapon used.
According to a senior Pentagon official, "easily 80 percent" of the Air Force bombs stockpiled for use in the Gulf are smart bombs. And unlike 1991, all US strike aircraft in the Gulf are now capable of delivering them. The GBU-28 "bunker buster" is dropped B2 stealth bombers and B1 bombers.The B-2 can come from home, and go right downtown like the F-117," said the senior air force official, referring to the stealth fighter that was used to bomb downtown Baghdad during the 1991 Gulf War. "It can do it from high altitudes and stay above a lot of the tripple A and the SAMs. It can be effective about what it can reach because of its stealth properties," he said. "All those qualities are just better, and it can carry everything from that 5,000 pounder, or it will, right down to these other weapons we've been talking about," he said.
The bomber currently can drop 16 900 kilo (2,000 pound) precision bombs at a time, using a global position guidance system to destroy 16 separate targets from an altitude of 12,200 meters (40,000 feet.) Or it can hug the terrain, flying at altitudes as low as 600 feet (200 meters). Its range, 6,000 miles (9,600 kilometers) without refueling, makes it able to strike Baghdad after flying non-stop from the continental United States. Anything the B-2 can do, however, can be done by smaller less expensive aircraft like the B-1 bomber, the F-117 or the F-15, air force officials concede.
The US military has a new family of "bunker busting" bombs to choose from if it decides to strike Iraq's undergound command posts or buried caches of weapons of mass destruction, officials say.
Faced with deeply buried bunkers during the 1991 Gulf War, the US Air Force launched a crash program to develop bombs able to penetrate the earth and detonate underground. Since then, air force engineers have developed a variety of warheads and fuzes designed to get at buried targets with greater precision.
The most powerful is BLU-113, a penetrating warhead that saw action at the end of the Gulf War. It rides a 5,000 pound laser-guided bomb dropped by a F-15E fighter. The latest is called the Advanced Unitary Penetrator (AUP), a warhead for a 2,000 pound bomb that will plow twice as far through dirt and reinforced concrete as any existing bomb of that size, air force officials say. How deep these bombs go before blowing up is secret, however.
The AUP can go on any of the air force's 2,000 pound bombs, which gives commanders a broader choice of ways to deliver it. It can be used with the AGM-130, an air-to-surface missile that can be fired from an F-15E strike fighter and guided to a target up to 40 nautical miles away with either infrared or television guidance systems.
Laser guided bombs dropped by F-117 Stealth fighters, F-16 fighters and F-15s also can carry the new warhead. Besides the AUP, the air force has the BLU-109, another penetrating warhead designed for use with 2,000 pound bombs.
In addition to needing to penetrate to a certain depth, you need to be able to have (the bomb) go off when you reach that depth. So we have two new fuses in our inventory. The most innovative is the hard target smart fuse, which is being readied for full production. Besides detonating the warhead below ground, it will also let you count how many rooms you've gone through so you can have it go off in the first room, the second room, or the third room.
Already in production is another fuse called the Joint Programmable Fuse, built to survive the impact of hitting the earth from the highest altitude. Iit showed "unprecedented reliability" in tests, has gone into production and is available to the military. To deal with the problem of attacking underground chemical or biological weapons caches, the air force has come up with an incendiary bomb coupled with a penetrating warhead. Exploded underground, the incendiary bomb would generate intense heat to burn up the chemicals or biological agents released by the blast.
Guided missiles and aircraft-dropped bombs that use advanced guidance systems to hit ground targets are called ``smart weapons.'' These high- tech weapons use laser guidance or global positioning systems (GPS) to pound strategic objectives with what the military has described in the past as pinpoint accuracy.
http://www.af.mil/news/factsheets/B_2_Spirit.html
http://www.sci.fi/~fta/gulf-wpn.htm
2:00 a.m. Oct. 11, 2001 PDT Propagandakrieg

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Die C-130E Commando Solo Flugzeuge können proamerikanische Radio und Fernsehnachrichten bringen,sie wurden bisher in jeder Militäroperation seit Vietnam eingesetzt.Dies ist deswegen wichtig ,weil es kein Freies Radio Afghanistan gibt,um die Sichtweise der USA zu übertragen..
Aber Experten in und ausserhalb der Regierung bezweifeln die Effektivität der Commando Solo und anderer psychologischer Operationen in Afghanistan ,wo ein halbes Dutzend verschiedene Sprachen vertreten sind bei einer weitgehend ungebildeten , technologielosen Bevölkerung,die sich weniger darum kümmert ,wer ihre Hauptstadt regiert als darum,wie sie ihren Magen füllen können