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ISIS hammered as US drops biggest non-nuclear weapon ever
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 4/13/17 | DAVID MARTOSKO

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Islam would truly understand and respect a “true” honor killing. It’s OK to own up.


21 posted on 04/13/2017 4:35:11 PM PDT by Billyv (Freedom isn't Free! Get off the sidelines!)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


22 posted on 04/13/2017 4:35:12 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: BenLurkin

Among other things it can trigger cave ins.


23 posted on 04/13/2017 4:35:30 PM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.)
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To: Jim 0216

+1


24 posted on 04/13/2017 4:36:18 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

“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!!! ;)


25 posted on 04/13/2017 4:36:22 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Fai Mao
it pulls all the air out of the tunnels so that whoever is hiding there suffocates.

Actually it can also turn their lungs inside out...

26 posted on 04/13/2017 4:36:54 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Ditto.


27 posted on 04/13/2017 4:36:56 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: mandaladon

Headed for “Moab”? Wonder of it says “Hi There” on it.


28 posted on 04/13/2017 4:37:00 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216
TTIUWP... WINNING!!!

29 posted on 04/13/2017 4:37:01 PM PDT by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
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To: Fantasywriter

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


30 posted on 04/13/2017 4:37:05 PM PDT by riverrunner
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To: cld51860

My understanding is that it pulverizes and collapses said tunnels.


I think two of the subtle points of this exercise is to get the ideas out there — to tunnel-dwelling rats the world over — that their tunnels aren’t so safe anymore and that there is a US president who doesn’t give a flying F what the NYT or the UN has to say about these things.


31 posted on 04/13/2017 4:37:12 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump++)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


32 posted on 04/13/2017 4:37:26 PM PDT by Seruzawa (I keel you Vorga feelthy.)
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To: samtheman

Didn’t we use something similar at Tora Bora?


33 posted on 04/13/2017 4:38:28 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ("You know Caligula?" --- "Worse! Caligula knows me!")
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To: Dallas59

I like your plan. Keep our boys out of harm’s way.


34 posted on 04/13/2017 4:38:38 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Jim 0216

Please Mr. President, put the video on youtube as soon as possible. I am dying to see what it did.


35 posted on 04/13/2017 4:38:59 PM PDT by Defiant (The media is the colostomy bag where truth goes after democrats digest it.)
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To: Jim 0216

“Trump pledged in 2015 that if he became president he would ‘bomb the s**t out of ‘ ISIS.”

Trump is a baddazz muthafracka.


36 posted on 04/13/2017 4:39:02 PM PDT by JPJones (George Washington's Tariffs were Patriotic. Build a Wall and Build a Wall of tariffs.)
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To: BenLurkin

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


37 posted on 04/13/2017 4:39:28 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Don't bother reading fake news about Trump on FR. Trump will tweet or email us his real news!)
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To: Chode; shibumi

‘’Somebody set them up the bomb” ping.


38 posted on 04/13/2017 4:39:37 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, his reason tends to fly away...)
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To: Jim 0216

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


39 posted on 04/13/2017 4:39:48 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

I would love to see Mecca and Medina taken out, but I doubt that will happen.


40 posted on 04/13/2017 4:40:35 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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