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Folks, The Durandal was never used in the 1967 War. It did not exist then. In fact the use of anti-runway bombs -- ie called "dribblers" -- was one of the most successful dis-information campaigns of that war. Along with the claim that they launched heat seeking air to ground missiles against Egyptian fighters warming their engines up to take off. The air to ground weapons used were revealed later were pure and simple: 30mm cannon fire and dive bombing of the runways. --
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Confirmed that the Durandal did not exist at the time of the 1967 Six Day War, as it was first produced in 1977. See http://articles.janes.com/articles/Janes-Air-Launched-Weapons/Durandal-BLU-107-B-France.html. I will edit the article to remove the section shortly. In addition, the final section that states that there are no more Durandals in the USAF inventory is without a citation and seems rather suspect. Plsuh ( talk) 01:35, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
In the Overview section, where are additional citations needed? All of the info in the section is from the reference [1], in a compact area on page of the source. Plsuh ( talk) 21:36, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
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I was under the impression from reading Mike Spick books that the Durandal had basically been taken out of inventory, in the US at least, because they decided that the bombing run was far to dangerous for the attacking aircraft, having to fly at a low and constant altitude and speed on a predictable path across a heavily-defended target area, a runway. AnnaGoFast ( talk) 13:15, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
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Folks, The Durandal was never used in the 1967 War. It did not exist then. In fact the use of anti-runway bombs -- ie called "dribblers" -- was one of the most successful dis-information campaigns of that war. Along with the claim that they launched heat seeking air to ground missiles against Egyptian fighters warming their engines up to take off. The air to ground weapons used were revealed later were pure and simple: 30mm cannon fire and dive bombing of the runways. --
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18:25, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
Confirmed that the Durandal did not exist at the time of the 1967 Six Day War, as it was first produced in 1977. See http://articles.janes.com/articles/Janes-Air-Launched-Weapons/Durandal-BLU-107-B-France.html. I will edit the article to remove the section shortly. In addition, the final section that states that there are no more Durandals in the USAF inventory is without a citation and seems rather suspect. Plsuh ( talk) 01:35, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
In the Overview section, where are additional citations needed? All of the info in the section is from the reference [1], in a compact area on page of the source. Plsuh ( talk) 21:36, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
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I was under the impression from reading Mike Spick books that the Durandal had basically been taken out of inventory, in the US at least, because they decided that the bombing run was far to dangerous for the attacking aircraft, having to fly at a low and constant altitude and speed on a predictable path across a heavily-defended target area, a runway. AnnaGoFast ( talk) 13:15, 9 December 2017 (UTC)