The B-52H Stratofortress is one of the United States Air Force’s most consistent bombers. It is an old airplane, but it is the most capable long-range strike platforms that we are using in the current War Theater. It is capable because of the highly trained crew inside its cockpit. Airmen train very hard in order to fly the B-52H. The plane has five crewmembers, the Pilot, Co-Pilot, Electronic Warfare Officer, Radar Navigator and Navigator. The forty-year-old, $

The JEGBU-27 stands for Joint Enhanced Guided Bomb Unit 27. This is a relatively new bomb, which is designed specifically for use on the F117 Nighthawk Stealth Fighter-Bomber. It can find its target by either laser or GPS guidance systems. This makes it good for any weather condition. It carries a 2,000-pound explosive or conventional warhead. This bomb equipped with the explosive warhead was the first bomb dropped on Iraq in the current campaign. On the first night of the war, Military Intelligence reported where they believed Saddam Hussein and at least one of his sons were located. Four of these bombs were dropped on that bunker.

JSOW – Joint Standoff Weapon, JDAM – Joint Direct Attack Munitions and JAGM-158 [JASSM] – Joint Air to Surface Standoff Missile (nickname JAZZ-EM) are all GPS guided devastating weapons. The JSOW carries a 1,000-pound warhead. 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. The JDAM is the weapon of choice during bad weather conditions. It is outfitted with a guidance kit of moveable tail fins controlled by navigation systems and is aided by GPS. This kit turns the old free-falling “dumb bomb” into a “smart bomb” capable of a surgical strike. To put it in very simple terms it allows

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