Flight tests have demonstrated the accuracy, reliability and performance of these precision air-launched bombs.

There is nothing neat about maiming and killing people with precision bombs from the air or gunfire on the ground - even if they're wearing enemy uniforms.

The Israelis destroyed a Syrian radar site in Tall al-Abuad with conventional precision bombs, electronic attack, and jamming.

Even as recently as the American raid on Libya in 1986, many precision bombs and weapons appear to have missed their targets, partly, experts believe, because attack methods had not been perfected.

Walking the Shingle Street strand last week, he suggested that the 'RAF used the beach to test a precision bomb against a shelter'.

The bombs used by the Allies were very high-tech devices, and mass production meant that the precision bombs were often made sloppily and so failed to explode.

"Today, America's image of war is an F-16 at 20,000 feet dropping a precision bomb," Mr. Goure said.

The 3rd Marine Air Wing (aviation assets only) expended 318 precision bombs, 391 rockets and missiles, and 93,000 machine gun and cannon rounds.

The Indian military has also tested newly inducted radars, unmanned aerial vehicles, surveillance systems, precision guided bombs, missiles, space-based assets and real-time data-sharing between elements.

Closer up, however, it becomes clear that these buildings are now no more than hollow shells after precision bombs punched through the roof, exploded and collapsed the floors inside.