Talk:List of bombs in the Vietnam War

Categories made meaningless by errors

Bomblets such as the BLU-3 are not guided, nor are any of the cluster bomb submunitions listed, to my knowledge. The BLU-82 is not a fuel-air explosive, it's actually a rather conventional bomb, if outsized. The idea of categorizing the different types of bombs is a good one, in theory, but as the page now stands they are more misleading than illuminating.172.190.251.71 (talk) 20:27, 8 January 2011 (UTC) I also forgot to mention that napalm, in all it's splendor, is not a fuel-air explosive either. Exactly how much bombing is the PRC supposed to have done, anyway? I know Wikipedia has a start-class for articles, is there a start over-class?172.190.251.71 (talk) 20:33, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Vietnamese bombings?

As a U. S. Air Force veteran who worked on Westmoreland's intelligence staff, I am unaware of the Vietnamese ever delivering bombs via aircraft.

Is this simply a list of bombs available for use, or is it a list of bombs actually used?

Georgejdorner (talk) 20:26, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Preserved removed section

The following was moved here from the article until reliable proof of North Vietnamese bombing is supplied (which probably means never).

(header)China/North Vietnam==

The North Vietnamese Air Force in contrast fielded only a small number of aircraft on limited, largely unsuccessful roles. The majority of them were fighter jets, with limited ground attack capability. These included the MiG-21 jet fighter, the MiG-19 jet fighter, the MiG-17 jet fighter, the MiG-15 jet fighter, and the smaller AN-2 aircraft.

(header)Big ball bombs===

• 250 LBs, 500 LBs, 750 Lbs, 1000 Lbs, HE
• 50–500 kg, GP
• BETAB-250

(header)Fuel Air Explosives===

• 500 kg napalm

Georgejdorner (talk) 20:52, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

References

The quote attributed to Curtis LeMay is inaccurate

The way that Curtis LeMay is "quoted" at the top of this entry makes it looks as if he was enunciating policy, speaking in the official capacity of the USAF Chief of Staff. The "Vietnam War" section of the entry on LeMay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_LeMay makes the context of this statement clear:

In his 1965 autobiography (co-written with MacKinlay Kantor), LeMay is quoted as saying his response to North Vietnam would be to demand that "they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression, or we’re going to bomb them back into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power—not with ground forces".

He was describing what he would have done, if it was his decision to make.