According to the MSM, only the Russian's were testing new capability?
Who'd a thought? /s
Oh, and Iran, rerun that MOAB strike / message we sent earlier.
Ping.
It only penetrates the ground about 10 feet? 3 meters.
You’ll need a bunker under your bunker. And maybe a bunker under that.
You know...I’d be super disappointed if our Nuclear Gravity Bomb wasn’t deadly.
Money quote: ‘Violently renovate an underground enemy command bunker’
Rest assured that the FAS do not contemplate the optimal employment scenarios for these weapons.
The problem they aim to solve is raising the temperature of structural concrete to the point it melts and sets fire to everything living below it.
Scientists . . .
They know alot, but lack common sense.
Where did the test take place and surely it penetrates more than 3 meters.
“behemoth” ???
Yield between 0.3 kilotons and 50 kilotons?
Capable of being carried by an assortment of fighters?
Hmmm
That will generate quite a bit of fallout.
-—What problem is the B-61-12 trying to solve? -—
It will remove storm clouds.
The world will be Quomless
Whatever happened to the kinetic energy weapons, the so-called rods from God? These tungsten rods are either dropped from orbit or from an ICBM and hit the target at mach 5+. Doubtful many bunkers would survive that hit. Were proppsed some 25 years ago.
Should that dumb Hobbit Hole ever rebuild, we have just the tool to finish the job.
It can go a LOT deeper than 3 meters of EARTH! It can easily go deeper than 3 meters of CONCRETE!
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!