European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 12, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 3 key a. Allied naval. Forces a major water desalination Plant it Oil Slick Allied bombing scud attack Turkey War in the Gulf in Ciurlik a i a of a i Syria leban6n scale of Miles Allied air raids destroyed the third of six major Bridges Over the Tigris River in Central Baghdad. Tel Aviv Jerusalem in Gulf War summary since Start of War reported by allies More than 69,000 sorties flown. 30 killed in action including 12. Americans and 18 saudis. 25 americans non combat deaths. An additional 105 americans listed As non combat deaths in operation desert shield before War. 46 missing in action including 28 americans eight British one italian and nine saudis. A 12 prisoners of War including eight americans two British tone a Taiwan arid one kuwaiti. R 29 Allied planes lost 22 in combat including 15 american five British one kuwaiti and one italian. A. Non combat losses seven planes _ including five american. One British and one saudi. Six american helicopters to non hostile causes. More than 1,011 iraqis taken prisoner 135 iraqi planes three helicopters destroyed. 750 iraqi tanks destroyed. 650 iraqi artillery pieces knocked out. 600 iraqi armoured personnel carriers destroyed. 147 planes flown to Iran. A Jordan Amman . F-15s took out at. Least four scud Mobile missile launchers in Eastern and Western Iraq. Rattra Iraq apparently has moved two captured . Soldiers including the Only woman captive to Basra the Pentagon confirmed monday. . And British aircraft destroyed an iraqi patrol boat near Fay Lakah Island off Kuwait. Jubal Itz v Dhahran it a a Riyadh Bahrain Qatar Iraq said monday it will begin drafting All 17-year-old males. Last month Iraq lowered the conscription age from 18 to 17, but exempted youths still in school. Iraq fired a scud missile at Riyadh monday night but it was destroyed by two Patriot missiles. A scud missile fired earlier at Israel hit a deserted site in Central Israel. Smart bomb hits at just 60%. Experts. Ili Fra i i a 11 la a. A a a. A a. A. A a. A a. A a. By Earl Lan it new Day Washington a laser guided a a smart bombs being used in the persian Gulf War probably Are hitting their targets Only about 60 percent of the time according to military specialists and congressional sources. _ although such bombs can be extremely precise when they work properly a As shown in some cockpit videos released by the Pentagon a analysts said that laser guided bombs can readily go astray. That would help account for some of the civilian deaths due to a collateral damage on bombing runs. K it also partly explains Why Allied pilots have had to make repeat sorties against some targets in Iraq and Kuwait. John f. Lehman jr., a former Secretary of the Navy said Pentagon contacts have told him the laser guided bombs Are sue pcs fully hitting their targets about 60 percent of the time. A congressional source who has had Access to Quot classified data on the bomb performance said that pilots Are doing a a Little  one iraqi official told a Reuters re Porter last week that several thousand civilians have been killed since the War started although the announced civilian death toll by late last week was about 600. Photos from Iraq have shown residences and other non military buildings that have been destroyed. But such reports have been impossible to judge independently. A congressional source said that some of the damage Likely is due to iraqis heavy use of surface to air missiles Sams around Baghdad. Missiles that fail to find a target can fall Back to the ground and do significant damage he said. Pentagon officials have maintained from the outset that some collateral damage is unavoidable. Still the impression from initial military briefings a with Vi-1 deos showing the destruction of command bunkers and key buildings in Central Baghdad a was of bomb runs with a pinpoint accuracy using smart technology. Although the full Story is yet to be Quot told analysts said that smart munitions can go a a Dymbe More frequently than has generally been acknowledged by the  s using laser guided bombs Bounce a laser beam off the target to he destroyed. The bomb once released has sensors that allow it to Home in on thy reflected laser spot. When everything works As planned the bomb follows the laser spot with such precision that it can. Go through a doorway or Down a Venoila Tion Shaft. Although the bomb relies on Gravity for its momentum it has movable guidance tins that make corrections in its trajectory As it nears the target. A it you get a Cloud coming hot Vul Yajiu. Air plane and the target or a burst of smoke that Breaks the laser beam  said the bomb can lose its Horning ability. A i hey just go ballistic Lehman said. The bombs can fall close to the target or at Sone distance depending on the Altitude at which the laser guidance was disrupted. Lehman said the bomb also can be thrown off by electronic malfunctions in the inboard computer that checks and corrects the bomb s trajectory the. Mil i tary has been concerned about the susceptibility of laser guided bombs to inter for once from radar radar hammers radio say and other electromagnetic emissions. Lehman said that a fid percent a Success rate is consistent with the Overall rates the military had been having in class Allied test brings and previous air attacks such As the ib<s6 raid on Libya. William Arkin a weapons analyst for Greenpeace agreed. Lehran said he had no estimates on the Success thus far of. Other precision guided munitions. Included were bombs guided to their targets by heat seeking sensors or to cameras that allow a weapons us Tiger aboard the plane to steer the bomb to its Tarci. Lie noted that the Success rates Are Likely to be in the same Ball Paik As the laser guided  Kiu said that a a 50 to 7 1 percent Success rate Lor All weapons is not Unie Lislie in addition to smart bombs die allies also Are using smart warplanes to a drop conventional Gravity bombs. Such bombs although sometimes called a a dumb a can reach the target with precision if they Are properly delivered experts said. Quot planes such As the 1-11 i Ami a-6 have navigation systems and Range tide is that allow pilots to Zero in on targets much More reliably than during Prev ious eras