RE: I don't think that the MOAB killed anyone.
April 15, 2017 at 10:14 am
(This post was last modified: April 15, 2017 at 10:22 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 15, 2017 at 9:52 am)Jehanne Wrote: I am saying that a bullet undergoes rapid acceleration and then gradual deceleration after it leaves the muzzle of a gun, neglecting its vertical drop, of course. The same analogy would apply to a bomb, also.Right, and before the round reaches the full potential of that rapid acceleration it would be less than productive to apply it to target (or release it from the barrel, specifically in the case of rifles). The same analogy -does- apply to a bomb and -is- the reason we airburst some munitions. The maximum applied force is not realized either at the blast pin in a rifle -or- right at the origin of the bombs explosion for a moab.
Quote:Waves can interfere constructively or destructively, and so, pressure would be greater at certain points than at others. However, below ground (which was where ISIS was, supposedly), would not be effected very much, assuming, of course, that their tunnels were sufficiently deep, which was the whole point of my OP.So, in essence, you don't doubt that it works, you think that it's effective depth penetration tapers off with depth? Well, ofc it does. Again, that's why this one is so damned big. It will still only go so far, so deep. We don't advertise accurate stats for shit like that, but the notion that anyone inside the tunnel when it went off has about as good a chance as a chilean miner, assuming they survived the initial impact...is pretty solid.
Quote:Which is why I am wondering (out loud) why they dropped the damn thing in the first place?Because it's the right munition for the target. A relatively deep tunnel network positively screams out for ground penetrating ordinance. The deeper the tunnel, the bigger the bomb. Some are designed to, in essence, plunge themselves to a certain depth before detonation...but amusingly, this only works on a shallow bunker (because the warhead can only get so far into the earth). Others, like the moab, are designed to create an immense wave of force that the ground carries down to target.
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