RE: I don't think that the MOAB killed anyone.
April 15, 2017 at 8:23 am
(This post was last modified: April 15, 2017 at 8:28 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The misunderstanding seems to centered around the munitions detonation height. The reason we do that, is to allow blast time to accelerate before it reaches target. Otherwise, some potential force is wasted/lost. That, is "the physics" of it. These bombs don;t lose applied force over that distance, they gain it. Detonating the munition in the mouth of the access tunnels would have less effect, not more. You could envision it as a sidescrolling map of a tunnel network, wherein there is a range of "too close" -"just right", and "too deep. What they try to do is match the "just right" range to overlap with intel regarding the tunnel.
You might doubt that the range of "just right" was sufficient for the entirety of a given tunnel, I suppose....though it doesn't actually matter that much - collapsing significant portions of the tunnel and particularly it's access -will- incur casualties..either directly or indirectly.
You might doubt that the range of "just right" was sufficient for the entirety of a given tunnel, I suppose....though it doesn't actually matter that much - collapsing significant portions of the tunnel and particularly it's access -will- incur casualties..either directly or indirectly.
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