(1) 环球网 战地记者 邱永峥 publishes his blog multiple places simultaneously,
none of which is published in a newspaper.
(a) His blog at Huanqiu has no photographs.
环球博客 » 邱永峥的个人空间 » 日志
利比亚战地日记
(b) His blog in Baidu has.
邱永峥的利比亚直击. Mar 23, 2011.
http://hi.baidu.com/%C9%CF%CD%F8%C8%D5%D6%BE/blog/item/fd987e3d
(2) He wakes up too late. A half-century late.
(a) In the first Gulf War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War
, convoys of tanks and armored personnel carriers were destroyed by US, with new bombs.
Soldiers in the first several tanks of a convoy died instantly. But soldiers in the following tanks jumped out and escaped.
(i) I am referring to
Lockheed Martin CBU-97/B
http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app5/wcmd.html
CBU and BLU stand for Cluster Bomb Unit and Bomb Live Unit, respectively.
(ii) See also
Precision-guided munition
(There are two basic families of laser-guided bombs in American (and American-sphere) service: the Paveway II and the Paveway III. The Paveway III guidance system is more aerodynamically efficient and so has a longer range, however it is more expensive. Paveway II 500-pound LGBs (such as GBU-12) are a cheaper lightweight PGM suitable for use against vehicles and other small targets, while a Paveway III 2000-pound penetrator (such as GBU-24) is a more expensive weapon suitable for use against high-value targets. GBU-12s were used to great effect in the first Gulf War, dropped from F-111F aircraft to destroy Iraqi armored vehicles in a process referred to as "tank plinking.")
LGB Laser-Guided Bomb
GBU Guided Bomb Unit
This is how.
* Guided Bomb Unit-12 (GBU-12) Paveway II
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/gbu-12.htm
* Guided Bomb Unit-24 (GBU-24) Paveway III
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/gbu-24.htm
("In the Gulf War all of the 1,181 GBU-24s were released by F-111Fs")
FAS Federation of American Scientists
GBU-12 and -24 are made by Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.
(b) In the
2006 Lebanon War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War
, most--Israeli deaths were sustained by soldiers inside tanks or armored personnel carriers. Unlike Gasans, Hezbollah forces in Lebanon had rocket-propelled grenades, which were lethal weapons to vanquish tanks in a puff. The well-known lesson is tanks are basically a death trap.
Taiwan has learned the lesson long ago. There is no way China can ship heavy equipment across the Taiwan Strait--and use it. Even if airports are bombed, air force and navy were annihilated, Taiwanese still have low-tech rocket-propelled grenades.