USAF: SFW's debut triggered surrender by Iraqi tank crews

New reports indicate the Textron-made CBU-97 Sensor Fuzed Weapon's (SFW) combat debut in Operation Iraqi Freedom pleased U.S. Air Force munitions developers. A military news report described the first SFW strike as a two-bomb packaged dropped by a B-52 at high altitude on an Iraqi tank column...

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