If you were lucky, you killed Target 1 but there is a good chance you missed with your bombs, that's what Korean War era weaponry is like. When you bomb with LDGPs (Low Drag General Purpose) bombs, use lots of them.

One thing to consider when using "dumb bombs" is your attack altitude. Many Cold War era fighter-bombers were designed for the fast & low approach. Low because the geometry of a low release altitude keeps the bombs close to the target and reduces the miss distance, whereas a high-level release increases the likely area the bomb will drop exponentially, plus the added time in the air allows wind and many other ballistic factors to affect the bombs more dramatically. The fast part of this delivery method is needed because it is not healthy for a multi-million-dollar aircraft to be dragging its tail down where everything from tree branches to shrapnel from its own bombs and small arms fire can damage it, not to mention anti-aircraft guns and missiles.

Your next strike will be a bit different; you will step forward about 50 years and use some modern JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition) weapons. In reality this is simply a guidance kit strapped on to the old 1950's era weapons family you dropped in Strike 1. But it makes a difference.

First a little bit on weapon names: We will consider Warsaw Pact and other bombs in further tutorials but in this instance, the standard bomb in NATO is the American Mark-80 series:

- Mark 81 - nominal weight 250 pounds (113kg)
- Mark 82 - nominal weight 500 pounds (227kg)
- Mark 83 - nominal weight 1,000 pounds (454kg)
- Mark 84 - nominal weight 2,000 pounds (907kg)

The Mk 81 (Firecracker) was used in Vietnam but not much after that and is no longer produced.

The Mk 82 is the most popular of this series due to its small size allowing more to be carried by many different aircraft types and the low blast radius which keeps a limit on collateral damage, critical in many modern operations.

The Mk 83, although regularly used by the US Navy, is not popular with most other forces. It doesn't have the striking power of the Mk 84 but causes more unintentional damage than the Mk 82.

The Mk 84, when you need to hit something hard you use this bomb.

Added to all of these bombs are guidance kits; laser, GPS, or both; and/or delivery systems that either slow the bomb down, allowing a lower altitude delivery (Snakeye) or a penetration capability (BLU-109).

For this mission you have one F-16 with two GBU31(V)3/B JDAM (BLU-109/B) with a Sniper XR Pod [FLIR] and an AN/ALQ-184 Pod as well. Let's break all that down:

- GBU: Guided Bomb Unit
- 31: for a Mk 84
- (V)3/B: guidance kit version
- JDAM: GPS Guided. For more detail go here.
- BLU-109/B Penetrator fuse
- Sniper XR Pod[FLIR]: Targeting pod [Forward Looking Infrared] - detail here
- AN/ALQ-184 Pod: An Electronic Countermeasures Pod (ECM)

Now as far as targets, there are two Hardened Aircraft Shelters, the perfect target for a 2000lb penetrator. They were almost made for each other!

Launch your second-strike aircraft and move it towards the target.