# What was the blown-up aircraft in the "smart bomb" stock footage reel? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 30, 2006, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-blown-up-aircraft-in-the-smart-bomb-stock-footage-reel/354808 "2006-04-30T04:08:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-blown-up-aircraft-in-the-smart-bomb-stock-footage-reel/354808/1 "2006-04-30T04:08:01Z")
Other regular viewers of the Discovery channel (and related networks) are probably familiar with a stock footage montage usually used in programs about “smart” bombs, Operation Desert Storm, and the U.S. air force. It’s a collection of black and white video from the targeting systems of fighter-bombers, and some feeds from video-guided missiles, showing bridges, buildings, windows etc. getting blown up or rammed into. The usual. However, one clip has intrigued me for awhile…it was taken from an aircraft, showing some big, clunky, bomber or cargo plane sitting on a runway for a few seconds, until some bombs or missiles blow it apart. Alas, I was unable to find the video online…but it looked kinda like this crappy artist’s impression. My question is: does anyone else have or remember that video, and if so, could they tell me what kind of aircraft that was getting hit? Was it an actual combat mission, or was it just a training target? Yeah, this one’s probably in the running for “Ran’s most obscure question.” But I had to ask. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-blown-up-aircraft-in-the-smart-bomb-stock-footage-reel/354808/2 "2006-04-30T04:24:47Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > Alas, I was unable to find the video online…but it looked kinda like this crappy artist’s impression. What crappy artist’s impression? ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-blown-up-aircraft-in-the-smart-bomb-stock-footage-reel/354808/3 "2006-04-30T06:16:08Z")
[This one,](http://home.comcast.net/~Ranchoth/stocktarget.jpg) that I somehow managed to not link to. It has been a long, long week. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-blown-up-aircraft-in-the-smart-bomb-stock-footage-reel/354808/4 "2006-04-30T06:24:00Z")
C-130 Hercules. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-blown-up-aircraft-in-the-smart-bomb-stock-footage-reel/354808/5 "2006-04-30T07:42:58Z")
Concur. ---
**Author:** ![Otara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a88e4f/32.png) [@Otara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otara)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-blown-up-aircraft-in-the-smart-bomb-stock-footage-reel/354808/6 "2006-04-30T08:38:10Z")
More likely a Russian equivalent if it as in Iraq isnt it? Ie Antonov An-12 or something like that. Otara