The United States military acknowledged dropping a 500-pound bomb on the wrong house outside the northern city of Mosul on Saturday, killing five people. But the man who owned the house said the bomb killed 14 people — including seven children. The strike in the town of Aitha, 30 miles ...
2,800 MK 82 General Purpose, 500-pound bomb bomb bodies. 13,000 KMU-556 JDAM Guidance Kits to attach to MK-84 (2,000-pound) bomb bodies. 3,475 KMU-557 JDAM Guidance Kits to attach to BLU-109 (2,000-pound) bomb bodies. 1,004 KMU JDAM Guidance Kits to attach to 500-pound GBU-...
Land and Transport Ministry officials said there were no aircraft nearby when the bomb exploded at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan. Officials said an investigation by the Self-Defense Forces and police confirmed that the explosion was caused by a 500-pound ...
For the next several minutes, Andrew waited for the bomber. Would it drop or just buzz them? He’d survived a tank battle already, but this was worse. A 500-pound bomb would kill his whole team. Just before the bomber was supposed to arrive, the battle captain called back. No bomber....
A U.S. bomb from World War II has exploded at a Japanese airport, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights.
When the first 500-pound bombs began to fall, 80 exhausted men headed to the southeast, away from the enemy. Kelly led while Dinh, farther back in the column, kept the troops moving. The shock of three successive B-52 strikes and rapidity of movement gave the bedraggled force some ...
The other attack in question occurred one year later — on Oct. 8, 2016 — in Yemen’s capital. Hundreds were gathered at the Great Hall of Sana’a City for the funeral of a tribal leader, when a Raytheon and Lockheed-made GBU-12 Paveway II 500-pound laser-guided ...
“The 2,000 pound (American) bombs dropped indiscriminately by the Israeli forces on one of the highest population density regions earth seems like, well, GENOCIDE to most of the world.” Rebuttal: Instead of investing in Gaza infrastructure, Hamas built tunnels and rockets, and created Hamas ...
Ganitch said a 500-pound (227-kilogram) bomb missed him by just 45 feet (14 meters). He didn’t have time to think and did what he had to do. “You realize that we’re in the war itself and that things had changed,” he said. The USS Arizona suffered a m...
Working with local Yemeni journalists and munitions experts, CNN has established that the weapon that left dozens of children dead on August 9 was a 500-pound (227 kilogram) laser-guided MK 82 bomb made by Lockheed Martin, one of the top US defense contractors. ...