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Old 09-25-2009, 07:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Webstral View Post
The v1 chronology mentions the US sending the Assault Breaker system, which would have been state-of-the-art, even in a 1995 that saw continued high levels of defense spending from 1986 onward.

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To give a better idea of how state-of-the-art and devastating the Assault Breaker is, the Assault Breaker program eventually produced the CBU-97 SFW bomb.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...ons/cbu-97.htm

It's probably the most devastating antiarmor weapon ever devised. You drop a CBU-97 over an armored brigade, and it pretty much ceases to exist.

This is OT for this thread, but this is one of those weapon programs that would make the Soviets say, "Oh shit! We better invade now before they come up with something worse!"
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