Posted on 04/13/2017 10:00:50 AM PDT by johnk
U.S. forces have dropped what is known as the "mother of all bombs" in Afghanistan. The device is the largest non-nuclear device in the Air Force arsenal, Fox News' Jennifer Griffin reported. It was dropped in Nangarhar Province, an eastern area near the Pakistan border. It's the first time the 21,000-pound ordnance has been used in combat, said Griffin. The device, developed in 2003 by the U.S. Air Force, is called the M.O.A.B, short for Massive Ordnance Air Blast. It's often referred to as the "mother of all bombs." Watch the report above.
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Apparently, we have reason to believe that Russia is supporting the Taliban. So read them in on the memo too.
Thursday seems to be a big day at the Pentagon.
Biggest non nuclear bomb we’ve got—LOVE that! We have a real CIC!
As I recall the US developed a ten ton bomb for use in WWII, but never used it. It could be seen at the Aberdeen Proving Ground.
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I believe that’s a smaller thermobaric bomb. The M.O.A.B. is quite a bit bigger.
Looks like it was dropped from a C-130. A parachute drug the thing out the back of the plane.
B-2 can drop it.
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This one, the GBU-43, is not designed to be dropped from a B-2. It does, however, have a guidance system that allows the C-130 to fly much higher than they had to fly do drop the older Daisy Cutter which descended by parachute.
The GBU-57 is meant for the B-2 and I believe a B-52 could also carry it. It is a 30,000 lb bomb known as the Massive Ordinance Penetrator. Unlike the MOAB, it’s designed to penetrate the ground before detonation and is meant to target very hard underground targets.
Why didn’t Trump drop this bomb on the alleged chemical weapons bunker at the Syrian air base?
Instead, after the Tomahawk assault, a USA military spokesman said the chemical weapons bunker was specifically NOT targeted.
If the weapons were actually stored there, the MOAB would have sprayed poisonous chemicals a half mile in every direction and killed dozens of Syrian Air Force personnel.
It would have been an appropriate USA response, if Assad’s alleged chemical attack on Syrian citizens actually took place as Trump has described.
And, the MOAB would have destroyed the chemical weapons.
Instead, Trump consciously decided not to destroy a stockpile of Assad’s chemical weapons.
Very strange.
Daisy cutters have progressed since my day...used to be the knick for an extended fuse at the nose of the bomb ....then progress to larger (tonnage) with proximity fuses....today’s version is in the explosive itself...the older versions cleared areas...today’s versions scrambles peoples inners from a greater distance
I am wholly ashamed of having been forced to vote for this FISA-loving, Patriot Act, ‘compassionate conservative’ who totally neglected our home country and economy in favor of doggedly kissing democrat butt during his tenure.
He really tried in 2006 to force illegal alien Amnesty on us and never blessed once answered those who where supposed to be his critics. I am done with a “Bush” in ANY form. I don’t want to hear it. I screwed up and am sorely ashamed.
No brother, father, sister, niece or whatever. Just go the hell away.
Trump was a master of messaging all through the campaign. Nice to know that skill set carries through to his CIC job.
ha ha...
What’s even stranger is the fact you posted this gibberish.
Wiuld have though a deep earth penetrator would be good for tunnels rather than an air blast?
Perfect name and perfect target!
I also read that it was in retaliation to ISIS killing one of our Green Berets. Have no details or real source on that. Maybe I’m reporting fake news. :)
What they found in WW-II was that a significant difference existed between measured surface test blast radius published in manuals versus actual combat effective radius. Same thing happened in Serbia and Gulf War-II where "near" misses by 2,000 lb bunker busters had little to no effect on tunnels and bunkers.
MOAB gave ISIS the Shaft.
“He’s won all his life without dropping bombs. That’s why I voted for him. Yuuuuge negotiating skills. Bomb and missile hurling is so Hillary”
Peace through strength. Happy talk time over tea and crumpets waiting waiting for the UN (useless nation) is over.
Ground penetration DEPTH is of utmost importance if U.S. analysts have information on Kim Jung Un's underground bunker!
HOW ‘MOAB’ WORKS
Key stats:
Known as the ‘Mother Of All Bombs’
The U.S. military’s largest non-nuclear weapon
Each bomb costs around $16 million (£12.8 million)
Its explosion is equivalent to 11 tons of TNT and the blast radius is a mile wide
First tested by US forces in 2003
It is designed to destroy heavily reinforced targets or to shatter ground forces and armour across a large area
30 feet (9 meters) long and 40 inches (1 meter) wide
Weighs 21,000lbs (9,500kg) – heavier than the Hiroshima nuclear bomb
Leaves no lasting radiation effect
How it’s deployed:
The bomb has ‘grid’ fins that fold into the body and then open up in flight to help control its descent
It can only be deployed out of the back of a large cargo plane due to its size
The bomb rides on a pallet, a parachute pulls the pallet and bomb out of the plane
The pallet then separates so that the bomb can fall to its target
It accelerates rapidly to its terminal velocity and is partially guided to its target via satellite
It explodes six feet (1.8 meters) above the ground
The idea behind this ‘airburst’ mechanism is to spread its destructive range
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