Litening Pod Used in Attack on Al Qaeda Brass
U.S. Air Force officials are giving partial credit to Northrop Grumman's Litening AT pod for the precision of last week's F-16C attack that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and several top lieutenants of Al Qaeda in Iraq. One F-16C first dropped a 500-lb. GBU-12 laser-guided bomb, followed by a 500-lb...
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