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.