Operation Desert Storm showcased a variety of high tech ordnance, including something called "smart munitions." Although nearly five years ago, who can forget the televised combat footage from a stealth fighter bomber of a 2,000-pound laser-guided smart bomb being, literally, dropped down the air shaft of the targeted building? Smart bombs and their precision enabled our forces to attain their objectives with less munitions tonnage, risk and time than if they had used exclusively dumb bomb technology.
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