We're too lazy to do the math at DP, but here is WAG at what was dropped on Iraq. In the 109,000 sorties flown by a total of 2,800 fixed-wing aircraft, half were bombing runs. Over 20,000 sorties were flown against 300 strategic targets in Iraq and Kuwait; 5,000 were flown chasing down SCUDs, and 50,000 were against Iraqi forces in southern Iraq and Kuwait. Over 200 Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from ships and submarines for the first time in combat.
The ordnance dropped totals about a quarter of a million bombs, 22,000 were "smart," 10,000 of these were laser-guided and 10,000 were guided anti-tank bombs. The remaining 2,000 were radiation-guided bombs directed at communication and radar installations. More than 3,000 bombs (including sea-launched cruise missiles) were dropped on metropolitan Baghdad.
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This is a partial list of what we delivered to Saddam during the past few years:
2,095 HARM missiles
217 Walleye missiles
5,276 guided antitank missiles
44,922 cluster bombs and rockets
136,755 conventional bombs
4,077 guided bombs (see below)
170,000 selections of the following
Mk 82 (500 lbs)
Mk 83 (1,000 lbs)
Mk 84 (2,000 lbs),
M117 (750 lbs)
BLU-82 Daisy cutters (a 15,000-pound bomb containing GSX gelled slurry explosives), HE, fuel air explosives (FAE) or ethylene oxide fuel and about 80,000 cluster bombs
Guided bombs included:
AGM-130, an electro-optically or infrared-guided 2,000-pound powered bomb
GBU-10 Paveway II, a 2,000-pound laser-guided bomb
GBU-101 Paveway II, a 2,000-pound laser-guided bomb with I-2000 hard target munition
GBU-12 Paveway II, a 500-pound laser-guided bomb, anti-tanks
GBU-24 Paveway III, a 2,000-pound laser-guided, low-level weapon (with BLU-109 bomb and mid-course auto pilot) used against chemical and industrial facilities, bridges, nuclear storage areas, and aircraft shelters,
GBU-27 Paveway III, a 2,000-pound laser-guided bomb with I-2000 hard target munition
Despite the sexy Sega press conferences most of the ordnance was delivered Vietnam style by the venerable B-52 flying at 40,000 feet and releasing 40-60 bombs of 500 or 750 pounds each. (A direct violation of Article 51 of Geneva Protocol I which prohibits area bombing)
GBU-28, a 5,000-pound "bunker busting" laser-guided bomb.
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