Posted on 10/13/2009 6:10:29 PM PDT by Doogle
The Pentagon is speeding up delivery of a colossal bomb designed to destroy hidden weapons bunkers buried underground and shielded by 10,000 pounds of reinforced concrete. What makes up such a destructive bomb?
The 15-ton behemoth—called the "massive ordnance penetrator," or MOP—will be the largest non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal. Under development by Boeing, it’s approximately 20 feet long. It has a 31.5-inch diameter and weighs slightly less than 30,000 pounds. Its cropped wings improve agility and storable grid fin controls facilitate internal carriage
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Hehe. I love the name. Something just so ‘Alpha Male’ and ‘phallic’ about it. OK. Y’all are going to thing I’m ‘oversexed’, now, LOL!
Isn’t there a Randy Newman song, “Lets Drop The Big One”?
*LOL*
Newest pickup line.
“Hey baby...wanna see my massive ordnance penetrator?”
Thats great but without the will to use it.....
What we need is a good kinetic energy weapon, a precisely delivered tungsten rod 20’ long and 12” in diameter, delivered straight down on a target from orbit at at least Mach 25. The advantage is that there is no nuclear explosion, and most of the energy is delivered straight down, as opposed to blasting out in all directions.
This was first proposed back in the sixties as something to do with one of the early Atlas rocket designs that accelerated like a scalded cat and produced too many gees for anything the Air Force had at that time. They did a study on this very idea but it never went anywhere. Maybe we need to take another look.
We have the means for guidance and very accurate delivery, and propulsion is no problem. Launch that thing out of Vandenberg on the right ballistic arc about 2000 miles high, and it’s just a matter of figuring how fast it will be going when it hits, and whether it will stop before it hits lava...
Oh now they’re going to get it~~~~!
YEAH RIGHT..!
The R&D on this thing was going for YEARS before Obama, and now that it’s continuing as always, the State Controlled Media is just trying to make him LOOK tough without him acutally having do DO anything —which is what he does best.
Who here dares to say Obama —after winning the Nobel Prize— would order use of the MOP by US forces....?
Even sans Nobel Prize, would he have ordered it’s use? NEVER..!!!
THIS IS ALLLLL IMAGE —the same as Clinton sending the Apaches to Kosovo.
Rods from God!
Let me know when we’re ready to use it on Iran.
I seem to recall the issue was launch signature. Didn't want the Ruskies to think we were launching a MIRV tipped ICBM.
Exactly. Cheap and highly effective. I doubt that it’s possible to excavate deeply enough to escape one. It’ll look like a freakin’ meteor coming in and the reentry should be visible for a good part of a hemisphere...
right....that was another issue. The whole “rod from God” was proposed because someone did a calculation and figured that the booster really could throw a solid tungsten rod that big.
As I recall it was one of those early liquid fueled beasts that used red fuming nitric acid for oxidizer and who knows what else for propellant. The rocket was hot all right, but if you fueled it, you had to launch it; because it wouldn’t survive the defueling process on the ground. The safest way to defuel the damned thing was to launch it and hope it got far enough away before it blew...
Ah.....the early days of the Space program....
“What we need is a good kinetic energy weapon...”
Very interesting. There could also be ways to direct some of the energy laterally if needed. I wonder why this wasn’t pursued.
I think you might be referring to the Sprint missile which was bargained away during the SALT negotiations:
http://www.postwarv2.com/sprint/sprint.html
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