Posted on 08/07/2018 11:12:18 AM PDT by Eddie01
Should that dumb Hobbit Hole ever rebuild, we have just the tool to finish the job.
Hahahahahahahahahaha!
Infernal Hobbits!
I’m sure that the 3 meter penetration is a mistake. The GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) will go 200 ft and that isn’t new.
She’s got more rolls than an italian bakery.
Obama tried to get the bomb redesigned so it would just “violently redecorate.”
It can go a LOT deeper than 3 meters of EARTH! It can easily go deeper than 3 meters of CONCRETE!
See my correction, just above this reply.
No, it’s not a mistake. Busting a bunker with a steel case isn’t the object.
https://fas.org/blogs/security/2016/01/b61-12_earth-penetration/
...“Nuclear earth-penetrator weapons (EPWs) with a depth of penetration of 3 meters capture most of the advantage associated with the coupling of ground shock.”...
I was going to ask what a gravity bomb was, thanks for the pictorial!
“Whatever happened to the kinetic energy weapons, the so-called rods from God?...” [The Great RJ, post 40]
Targeting and fire control limitations. Inert projectiles have only a tiny radius of kill, so they have to be terminally guided with unusually great precision. Miss by an inch or so, the effect drops off dramatically. Same thing bedeviling USN railgun development.
Also, treaty limits on putting weapons into space.
She’s got cleavage all over the place.
Makes it sound like we’ve weaponized gravity.
It sounds rather like a GPS-kit attached to a pre-existing B-61 nuclear bomb. Not sure that qualifies as a “new” weapon — rather more like an enhancement.
ONLY three meters earth ?
NOT CONCRETE (at least)?
thats nothing much to speak of
in WW2 those huge 800mm guns (gustav’s) the germans had had special shells that could penetrate ~100 feet of earth (one destroyed a russian underground ammo depot at Sevastapol )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav
You need to do better than that (is the point that ‘buried’ more of the force goes INTO the ground instead of being wasted upwards ???)
~9 feet doesnt seem enough for that
I remember some mention of a chain of bombs using the first several to dig down a ways (40+ feet???) for the following explosive one to go off much further underground (but that’s a hard trick - the very accurate things these days MIGHT be able to make THAT ‘trick’ more likely.
"Deadly"?
I should hope anything considered worthy of being air-dropped by a B-2 should be very deadly!
No, it’s not a mistake. Busting a bunker with a steel case isn’t the object.
https://fas.org/blogs/security/2016/01/b61-12_earth-penetration/
...“Nuclear earth-penetrator weapons (EPWs) with a depth of penetration of 3 meters capture most of the advantage associated with the coupling of ground shock.”...
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I’m not sure I fully understand but I do stand corrected.
Thanks jjotto
The Air Force probably isn’t going to disclose the true capabilities of the weapon. Why would they?
Talk about tossing hot dogs down hallways....
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