[Imc-aotearoa-ed] can we hid this

[clare]

ok, it's hidden now


c.

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 21:22:13 +1200
ksimpson@ihug.co.nz wrote:

> Yes, definitely. Ken
> 
> On 14 Apr 2003 at 18:41, clare wrote:
> 
> > http://www.indymedia.org.nz/front.php3?article_id=5670&group=webcast
> > 
> > note the last sentence
> > 
> > i'd like to hid this as soon as poss 
> > 
> > 
> > clare
> > 
> > --------------
> > B-52 Litening II pod used in combat for the first time.
> > 
> > 04/12/03 - OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM (AFPN) -- For the first time in
> > combat history, a B-52 Stratofortress used a Litening II targeting
> > pod to strike targets at an airfield in northern Iraq on April 11,
> > according to officials at the U.S. Central Command's combined air
> > operations center.
> > 
> > Using the Litening II system,a crew of reservists from the 93rd Bomb
> > Squadron at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., and active-duty airmen
> > from the 23rd BS at Minot AFB, N.D., flew the bomber from a
> > forward-deployed location and dropped one laser-guided GBU-12
> > Paveway II munition on a radar complex and another on a command
> > complex at the airfield, officials said.
> > 
> > The Litening II pod provides real-time images, greatly increasing an
> > aircrew's flexibility to identify targets in a continually-changing
> > battlefield environment. The pod then allows the B-52
> > radar-navigator to designate the targets and direct laser-guided
> > weapons without having to rely on another aircraft or person on the
> > ground to "paint" the target with a separate laser designator.
> > 
> > A spokesman for the Aotearoa Indymedia news organisation said he was
> > "heartened by the succesful use of this new technology" and was
> > "looking foward to it's use in future wars of liberation".
> > 
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