Nellis desert allows for tactical learning

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Nellis desert allows for tactical learning
By Megan McCloskey - Las Vegas Sun
Posted : Saturday Mar 7, 2009 14:10:58 EST

NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. — Ponder if you will, an SAT question with a combat twist:

A truck carrying top-level insurgents flees west at 70 mph on a dusty road in Iraq. At the same time an F-15 carrying a bomb flies east at 1,600 mph, 20,000 feet above. When does the truck get blown to smithereens?

For a time in Iraq the answer was: rarely.

The fighter pilots just couldn’t do what was being asked of them. Namely, to hit a fast-moving ground target.

Enter Nellis Air Force Base.


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