ISIS hammered as US drops biggest non-nuclear weapon ever

dailymail.co.uk ^ | 4/13/17 | DAVID MARTOSKO

[Jim W N]

U.S. dropped its largest non-nuclear weapon after targeting ISIS in Afghanistan.

The GBU-43 bomb weighs 21,600 pounds, is 30 feet long, contains 11 tons of explosives and carries a mile-wide blast radius.

It can create a blast crater more than 300 meters wide after being dropped from a Hercules MC-130 cargo plane.

Trump pledged in 2015 that if he became president he would 'bomb the s**t out of ' ISIS.

On Thursday he called the bombing 'another successful job' and said he had delegated strike authority to his military commanders.

Pentagon denies that it was revenge for the death on Saturday of a Green Beret soldier in the same region of Pakistan.

[Jim W N]

This headline say a lot more than the previous post what said nothing about ISIS.

GO TRUMP AND GO USA!!!!

[Samurai_Jack]

“delegated strike authority to his military commanders”

something that Clinton/bush/Obama wouldn’t do right?

quite a departure.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Pentagon denies that it was revenge for the death on Saturday of a Green Beret soldier in the same region of Pakistan.”

This America wouldn’t mind one tiny bit if it was!

[Jim W N]

God bless Trump and God bless America.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

‘American’

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weighs 21,600 pounds, is 30 feet long, contains 11 tons of explosives

Somebody got their math wrong.

[BenLurkin]

I have (yet another) dumb question: if the muslims are bunkered in tunnels, what good does a large blast on the surface do?

[Dallas59]

Just keep on dropping those and forget about 150,000 troops in Syria.

[Jeff Chandler]

Rounding.

[Jeff Chandler]

if the muslims are bunkered in tunnels, what good does a large blast on the surface do?

The effects from the shock of such a tremendous blast would be . . . tremendous.

[dragnet2]

Extreme blast/pressure waves can destroy tunnels and most everything inside them.

[cld51860]

My understanding is that it pulverizes and collapses said tunnels.

[Fai Mao]

“I have (yet another) dumb question: if the muslims are bunkered in tunnels, what good does a large blast on the surface do?”

Two things:
1. The concussion of the explosion collapses the mouths of some of the tunnels
2. (This is the biggie) it pulls all the air out of the tunnels so that whoever is hiding there suffocates.

[Fantasywriter]

“Pentagon denies that it was revenge for the death on Saturday of a Green Beret soldier in the same region of Pakistan.”

But if ISIS interprets it that way, so be it.

[cableguymn]

Blows the door shut. And keeps it that way.

[mandaladon]

Holy cow...look at the size of that!

[samtheman]

if the muslims are bunkered in tunnels, what good does a large blast on the surface do?

The effects from the shock of such a tremendous blast would be . . . tremendous.

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That’s what someone from the military said on Fox News today, that the shock wave would collapse deep tunnels over a wide area.

[Jolla]

what good does a large blast on the surface do

sucks all of the air out

[Telepathic Intruder]

Typo. It weighs 22,600 lbs.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Just keep on dropping those and forget about 150,000 troops in Syria.

Yeah, we should "gift" Syria with a couple of those....Mecca and Medina too.