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America drops "largest non-nuclear bomb in history" on Afganistan
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RE: America drops "largest non-nuclear bomb in history" on Afganistan
April 13, 2017 at 3:15 pm
http://heavy.com/news/2017/04/mother-of-...oab-gbu43/

"According to military information website Deagel, MOAB costs around $16 million per unit. So far the U.S. military has spent $314 million on the production of the explosive."
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RE: America drops "largest non-nuclear bomb in history" on Afganistan
April 13, 2017 at 3:18 pm
(April 13, 2017 at 1:53 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Well, they had this new toy and they were just dying to use it.........

Well that armament industry can't produce more while the exit warehouses are full. And I know general industry warehouses.
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RE: America drops "largest non-nuclear bomb in history" on Afganistan
April 13, 2017 at 3:25 pm
(April 13, 2017 at 1:51 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: I don't understand why an in air detonation bomb is being used on a tunnel/cave complex. Seems that tunnels and caves calls for bunker busters.

Maybe they had an outdoor picnic scheduled.

 Bunker busters are for penetration. A thousand feet of rock isn't open to penetration. A cave is built into a mountain. Bunkers are built without that mountain. The most notable bunker busted during Desert Storm was in downtown Baghdad. 

The MOAB is designed to over-pressure a cave system, crushing anything inside it with a shock wave. 5,000 psi, IIRC.
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RE: America drops "largest non-nuclear bomb in history" on Afganistan
April 13, 2017 at 3:29 pm
(April 13, 2017 at 3:10 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: If it's caves and tunnels, why aren't we using exploding bats? 

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April 13, 2017 at 3:46 pm
(April 13, 2017 at 2:02 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: [Image: 1280px-MOABprototype.jpg]

Uh-huh.



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RE: America drops "largest non-nuclear bomb in history" on Afganistan
April 13, 2017 at 8:59 pm (This post was last modified: April 13, 2017 at 8:59 pm by Rev. Rye.)
(April 13, 2017 at 1:15 pm)Aroura Wrote:
Quote:A GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, nicknamed MOAB, was dropped at 7 p.m. local time Thursday, the sources said.

They said the target was an ISIS tunnel and cave complex as well as personnel in the Achin district of the Nangarhar province

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I don't know what to think about this.  If no civilians were killed, that'd be good. It seems we just cannot get out of the middle east.  Sad

Really, who says we want to get out of the Middle East? I mean, sure, excursions like this are unpopular and a waste of resources and human lives, but it's not like the people who actually run things give a crap about that.
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RE: America drops "largest non-nuclear bomb in history" on Afganistan
April 13, 2017 at 9:10 pm
(April 13, 2017 at 3:10 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: If it's caves and tunnels, why aren't we using exploding bats? 

Warped in bacon.

We tried that.  There were...issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
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RE: America drops "largest non-nuclear bomb in history" on Afganistan
April 13, 2017 at 9:46 pm
I guess we showed that cave who was the boss.

I wonder how many civilians were hiding in there because of our "normal" bombing?
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RE: America drops "largest non-nuclear bomb in history" on Afganistan
April 13, 2017 at 9:52 pm
(April 13, 2017 at 9:10 pm)Khemikal Wrote:
(April 13, 2017 at 3:10 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: If it's caves and tunnels, why aren't we using exploding bats? 

Warped in bacon.

We tried that.  There were...issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb

It says they got a lot of their bats from Carlsbad Caverns. If you've never seen the Carlsbad bats leaving the cave at dusk you should make it a point to do so. It's something worth seeing. Preferably before white-nose syndrome gets there...
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RE: America drops "largest non-nuclear bomb in history" on Afganistan
April 13, 2017 at 10:15 pm (This post was last modified: April 13, 2017 at 10:21 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(April 13, 2017 at 1:51 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: I don't understand why an in air detonation bomb is being used on a tunnel/cave complex. Seems that tunnels and caves calls for bunker busters.

Maybe they had an outdoor picnic scheduled.

It might be not strictly a conventional bomb, but what is called a fuel air bomb, which relies on sucking oxygen from surrounding air to feed the atomized fuel surrounding the bomb, this could asphyxiate people trapped in aconfined space such as a non-airtight bunker.
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