Bomb damage assessment (BDA), also known as battle damage assessment, is the practice of assessing damage inflicted on a target from a stand-off weapon...
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Operation Chastise (section Bomb damage assessment)
came out to greet the last crew to land. Bomber Command wanted a bomb damage assessment as soon as possible and the CO of 542 Squadron was informed of the...
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projectiles, pressure damage, and explosion-generated effects. Bombs have been utilized since the 11th century starting in East Asia. The term bomb is not usually...
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Trinity (nuclear test) (redirect from First atomic bomb)
test was of an implosion-design plutonium bomb, nicknamed the "gadget", of the same design as the Fat Man bomb later detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on...
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the direction of air strikes on them. They were also to conduct bomb damage assessment, conduct small scale reconnaissance and hunter-killer operations...
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with an evaluative step, in some circumstances referred to as "Bomb Damage Assessment". A new American military contingency plan called "Kill Chain" is...
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intercept and jam Yugoslav communications, while RC-135s conducted bomb damage assessment. The standard tactic for F-16CJs was for two pairs to come at a...
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gave an upbeat bomb damage assessment of the operation. 97 sites were targeted in the operation with 415 cruise missiles and 600 bombs, including 11 weapons...
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provide FEAF (Far East Air Forces) Bomber Command with target and bomb-damage assessment photography. 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron, Medium, Photographic...
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October 2012 a RQ-170 was used to conduct bomb damage assessment for a test drop of a Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb from a Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth...
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and was essentially just a dead weight. An A-2 model introduced a bomb damage assessment (BDA) capability and an SDU-6/B phosphorus target marker flare to...
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photography.[page needed] Thanks to bomb damage assessment (BDA) the complete failure of precision daylight bombing soon became apparent, the vast majority...
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discontinued at the outset of the Second World War, but it was used as a bomb damage assessment camera by the Luftwaffe, mounted in the tail of Ju 87 (Stuka) dive...
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transmit its location and status during flight, allowing improved bomb damage assessment. The warhead is a WDU-42/B 1,000 lb (450 kg) penetrator. The JASSM...
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artillery spotting, intelligence gathering, forward air control, and bomb damage assessment. During the War on Terror, the US Army began to develop a limited...
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of punch in the warhead made it difficult for bomb damage assessment, as well as inflicting any damage to the Fan Song Radar vans beyond a shattered radar...
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strategic bombing—inflicting mass damage on the enemy's economy and population—not for attacks on specific military targets. High level bombing missions...
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Operation Linebacker II (redirect from Christmas Day Bombing)
Model 147 Buffalo Hunter AQM-34L/M unmanned aerial vehicles for bomb damage assessment due to bad weather. It was at this point that President Nixon ordered...
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fighter escort for the air wing's strike packages, reconnaissance and bomb damage assessment and combat air patrols. On the fourth day of the war, while on an...
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bomb or stand-off bomb is a standoff weapon with flight control surfaces to give it a flatter, gliding flight path than that of a conventional bomb without...
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Following the airstrike the patrol moved forward to perform a bomb damage assessment (BDA). As the only SF member who spoke Pashto, Miller organized...
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reconnaissance, sensor emplacement, wiretap, and bomb damage assessment missions. The cessation of the bombing of the north also freed the North Vietnamese...
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During the 1986 United States bombing of Libya, while Libya's integrated air defense network was not destroyed, it was damaged without major losses incurred...
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chemical compound used in neuroanatomical tracing Bomb damage assessment, or battle damage assessment Browning BDA (disambiguation), name given to a number...
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Market Garden, the airborne attack in the Netherlands. It conducted bomb damage assessment of Germany after VE Day. The squadron returned to the United States...
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missiles in November 2015. A Shahed 129 was also used to provide bomb damage assessment for the 2017 Deir ez-Zor missile strike. The Shahed 129s have since...
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morning of 18 February the 1st Airborne Battalion conducting a B-52 bomb damage assessment 2 km north of LZ Bravo found an abandoned command post of the PAVN...
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agreed to leave them off the target list so accurate assessment of the damage caused by the atomic bombs could be made. Hiroshima was described as "an important...
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causing economic damage. Dirty bombs might be used to create mass panic as a weapon of terror. When dealing with the implications of a dirty bomb attack, there...
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MACV-SOG recon teams, who, besides carrying out recon, wiretap, and bomb damage assessment missions for "Commando Hunt", also hand-placed sensors for "Igloo...
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