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There are two basic types of smart bombs-those guided by television and those led by laser beams. TV bombs, like the Navy's 3,000-lb. Walleye (so named for the glassy lens in its snout), can be dropped from an altitude of 30,000 ft., far above the reach of most antiaircraft artillery. As the bomb glides toward the target on a free-falling trajectory, the pilot, who monitors the flight on a television receiver, can adjust its course by remote control, or the bomb, having "memorized" the picture of the target with its built-in electronic...
...Laser-directed bombs usually require the coordination of at least two aircraft: one circles above and trains a pencil-thin beam of laser light on the target, while the other drops its bombs in the general direction of the object. Responding to infra-red sensors mounted in their noses, the bombs ride the beam's reflections in a long glide pattern to the target. Sometimes they strike within a 5-ft. radius of the bull...
Some U.S. aircraft are now being outfitted with laser "projectors" that train the beam for the plane's own bombs to follow. There are also infra-red bombs that home in on the heat of tank or truck engines...
...aide, who is a consultant to a Boston firm now designing a nuclear war game, assured the student "confidentially" that a $200,000 laser bomb recently developed by the military would be accurate enough to "do the job". The student smiled and urged that the Senator vote against the Byrd Amendment so that money now being wasted in Indochina could be spent on more useful military projects. Despite the student's plea. Towers decided to vote for the Byrd Amendment...
...years of active U.S. military presence, it is still impossible to find thirty-three Senators who will refuse to conduct other business until the war is ended. Their constituents may be upset about the cost of steak, but it is hard for them to imagine what $200,000 laser bombs do to Vietnamese. It is equally difficult for Congressmen to imagine...