Posted on 04/13/2017 4:22:22 PM PDT by 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.
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Islam would truly understand and respect a “true” honor killing. It’s OK to own up.
Do some research on the effects thermobaric explosives. Not sure how far down a tunnel the shock wave will penetrate, but the concussive shock is enough to suck the eyeball out of sockets and brain matter out of other orifices in protected bunkers.
Among other things it can trigger cave ins.
+1
“Rounding.”
When you’ve got a bomb that big, it’s close enough! ;) Next stop N. Korea, and then let’s take care of IRAN!!! ;)
Actually it can also turn their lungs inside out...
Ditto.
Headed for “Moab”? Wonder of it says “Hi There” on it.
It should have been said you kill one of ours, we are killing dozens or more of yours.
It is the only thing they understand
My understanding is that it pulverizes and collapses said tunnels.
Concussion for one. Kills at a distance. We used to drop concussion grenades in the water near ships in Da Nang harbor. If anyone is swimming within so many meters they get knocked unconscious and drown. A big enough bomb close enough in the atmosphere will kill people within a certain radius. The ground will conduct the concussion wave into the tunnels.
Didn’t we use something similar at Tora Bora?
I like your plan. Keep our boys out of harm’s way.
Please Mr. President, put the video on youtube as soon as possible. I am dying to see what it did.
“Trump pledged in 2015 that if he became president he would ‘bomb the s**t out of ‘ ISIS.”
Trump is a baddazz muthafracka.
It is a tunnel buster bomb and doesn’t detonate on the surface. It penetrates into the underground bunker and then explodes.
Watch the video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1OqbwtIPy4
‘’Somebody set them up the bomb” ping.
Bomb damage assessment? Sounds like a safe place to set off a bomb - no civilians, no nobody around. Very remote area bordering Pahk-ee-stahn.
P.S. Please do not send troops to Syria
I would love to see Mecca and Medina taken out, but I doubt that will happen.
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