[R-G] Record bombs dropped in Afghanistan in April

[Anthony Fenton]

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/05/airforce_april_airstrike_050409w/

Record bombs dropped in Afghanistan in April

By Bruce Rolfsen - Staff writer
Posted : Monday May 4, 2009 20:59:59 EDT

Air Force, Navy and other coalition warplanes dropped a record number  
of bombs in Afghanistan during April, Air Forces Central figures show.

In the past month, warplanes released 438 bombs, the most ever.

April also marked the fourth consecutive month that the number of  
bombs dropped rose, after a decline starting last July.

The munitions were released during 2,110 close-air support sorties.

The actual number of airstrikes was higher because the AFCent numbers  
don’t include attacks by helicopters and special operations gunships.  
The numbers also don’t include strafing runs or launches of small  
missiles.

Over Iraq, 26 bombs were released during 767 strike sorties.

Transport crews airdropped 1.8 million pounds of supplies, mostly in  
Afghanistan, and tankers off loaded 85 million pounds of fuel.

Reconnaissance aircraft flew 1,402 missions over Iraq and Afghanistan.