Developing new tactics

Sat, Feb 28, 2009 (10 p.m.)

Ponder if you will, an SAT question with a combat twist:A truck carrying top-level insurgents flees west at 70 mph on a dusty road in Iraq. At the same time an F-15 carrying a bomb flies east at 1,600 mph, 20,000 feet above. When does the truck get blown to smithereens? For a time in Iraq the answer was: rarely. The fighter pilots just couldn’t do what was being asked of them. Namely, to hit a fast-moving ground target. Enter Nellis Air Force Base.

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