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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Same!!!
A NEW number 2!
And they didn’t just take weapons in with them... gold, US $100 bills, chosen wives, concubines....
I heard it can deplete the oxygen in those tunnels.
She’s a beauty.
A helluva lot more that anything Obama didn't do.
It’s TNT equivalent, not just rounding. The MOAB has 18,700 pounds of an explosive mixture (including 29.5% TNT, plus a stabilizer and ingredients that increase the energy density and the blast pressure and decrease the pressure wave rise time, which increases the damage radius) with a TNT equivalent by weight of 1.35 to 1. That means it’s equivalent to over 11 tons of TNT.
...the explosive content is some what different with
the MOAB...it’s ability to rattle vital body
parts at greater distances (underground too)makes it most effective
Didn’t the Brits have an “earthquake” bomb during WWII?
I wonder how many of these things we have.
Solve a lot of problems, destroy the religion as it makes the Haj, one of the pillars of “faith”, impossible.
This warms my heart.
since Reagan we have had are presidents micro managing the military. I like knowing that response on site in a conflict situation is being handled by real military officers not the President, his chief of staff, and the speech writers.
I wonder if they can part the little North Korea leaders hair with this thing...
That is awesome! You can see the dust and smoke coming out of the connecting tunnel entrances.
I missed what you pointed out when I first posted that video on my Android phone.
I sent the video out to family members and friends, and they got back with what you noted.
So I ran it on my Ace Chromebook 15, and like you noted, It is awesome.
A friend was AF security and his Nam tours were in Laos protecting our planes, supplies, pilots and other guys who kept our planes flying and bombing.
He went into the VC tunnels around our air bases to take out Charlie. This weapon would have been great for him and his guys.
Careful there Bub
how many snowflakes can define “mete” or “meting” ?
way too Sophisticato for the MO-rons.
I would love that for our fire ants!!!
Old Trump is as tough as that old C-130 Hercules.
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