Has the Durandal ever been used in combat? Is it still in the USAF inventory?

Dear Member,

A listing in Arm Force Journal International after the 1991 Gulf War shows the USAF as having dropped a number of DURANDALS. Also the anti-runway weapon used by the French Air Force against a Chad airfield used by the Libyans was the BAP-100 from the Jaguar and not the Durandal.

Finally, I did a report for the Popular Mechanics on the DURANDAL back in the 1980s. The main problem the USAF had with the French version was fusing. Also other antirunway weapons were rejected because they believed that they lacked the warhead to crater the heavy Russian runways that were in the Northern areas.

Jack E. Hammond