Libya: Britain prepares 'bunker buster' bombs for assaults
Paveway bombs weighing 2,000lbs to be loaded onto RAF jets for possible strikes on Gaddafi command centres.
Paveway bombs, weighing 2,000lbs, the largest in the RAF's arsenal, have been dispatched to Gioia del Colle in southern Italy where RAF Tornado and Typhoon jets are based. While the Apache's cannon and Hellfire missiles are used against small or moving targets, the Paveway bombs are expected to be used against bunkers underneath the Gaddafi regime's Bab al-Azizia compound in Tripoli and elsewhere.
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