there. this number is one of the top u.s. defense contractors. we re at the forefront of the science. this particular mk 82 is a laser guided precision bomb. it s accuracy part of the pride of the bomb. the devastation inflicted is all too familiar in yemen. a strike on a market using a similarly laser guided 2,000 mound mk 84 killed many people. then the bus attack on august
aftermath of the attack and sent to cnn by a contact. a cameraman working for cnn subsequently filmed these images for us. munitions experts tell cnn this was a u.s.-made bomb, weighing in at half a ton. the first five digits there are the cage number. the commercial and government entity number. this number here denotes lockheed martin. one of the top u.s. defense contractors. we re at the forefront of the science that makes them real. reporter: this particular mk-82 is a paveway. a laser-guided, precision bomb. it s targeting accuracy, a particular point of pride for lockheed martin. part of an arms deal with saudi arabia sanctioned and contracted out by the u.s. government. so why does this matter? because the devastation inflicted by the mk-82 is all too familiar in yemen. in march 2016, a strike at a
busy market. translator: i saw the bomb hit the bus. it blew it into those shops and threw bodies clear to the other side of those buildings. we found bodies scattered everywhere. there was a severed head inside. this video was filmed in the aftermath of the attack. a cameraman working for cnn subsequently filmed these images for us. munitions experts say this was a u.s.-made mk 82 bomb weighing half a ton. the first five digits there are the cage number, the commercial and government entity number. this denotes lockheed martin. we re at the forefront that makes them real. this particular mk 82 is a paveway, a laser-guided precision bomb. its targeting accuracy a particular point of pride for lockheed martin.
weighing in at half a ton. the first five digits there are the cage number, the commercial and government entity number. this number here denotes lockheed martin. this particular mk 82 is a laser guided precision bomb. its targeting accuracy a particular point of pride for lockheed martin. parts of an arms deal saudi arabia sanctioned and contracted out by the u.s. government. so why does this matter? because the devastation inflicted by the mk-82 is all too familiar in yemen. in march 2016 a market using the similarly laser guided 2,000 pound mk-84 killed 97 people. in october 2016 another strike on a funeral hall killed 155 people and wounded hundreds
map, you say, something is there, try not to hit it or don t hit it, rather. but when the fluteness of the battlefield takes place, you have engaged with troops on the ground, sometimes there are mistakes. it could a a mistake in the nine line report, which is what the spoter on the ground sends to the aircraft in the air, giving the target, the target floex it s troops on the ground, where the spoter is. but then it also has, it sect e connects to this airplane traveling several hundred hours and hour with a pit site on board, which will drop a precision bomb. so there are all sorts of things that could go wrong with a precision strike. those are a few of those. these are all the kind of things that will be investigated. did the pilot have in no fly area. did the nine lynn report that went from the guy on the ground to the airplane, was it correct with the right data? was there something wrong with the aircraft? was there something wrong with