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Bunker-busting behemoth: Pentagon upgrades bomb with Iranian nukes in mind
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| May 03, 2013
Posted on 05/03/2013 2:28:37 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan
I thought they used the MOAB in the beginning of the afghan war.
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posted on
05/03/2013 5:05:24 PM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?)
To: himno hero
You have to keep in mind the Iranians are messing with the smartest people on the planet. I agree. I further believe that the Jews today are a product of natural selection. Persecution, pogroms, and the holocaust has resulted in the survival of only the fittest and smartest.
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posted on
05/03/2013 5:08:15 PM PDT
by
luvbach1
(We are finished.)
To: blackdog
A global penetrator will do that...
To: Chode
...can't loft a 30,000lb cargo...Forgot about the weight.
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posted on
05/03/2013 5:11:22 PM PDT
by
luvbach1
(We are finished.)
To: Pan_Yan
Well? Will the bunker busters go to waste, or will our military forces use them? No more government waste!
45
posted on
05/03/2013 5:26:29 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
To: Pan_Yan
46
posted on
05/03/2013 5:33:04 PM PDT
by
hattend
(Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
To: Pan_Yan
Hopefully we never have to use it What the hell?
Use it, use it now.
47
posted on
05/03/2013 5:35:35 PM PDT
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Celebrate: Republicans Freed the Slaves Month)
To: Average Al
That is a heck of a rock to kick out of a plane Well back in the day
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posted on
05/03/2013 7:26:06 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(RIP Chrissie Amphlett.)
To: luvbach1
i think they they will surprise the goathumpers when the time comes BIG TIME... they don't have to destroy the bunkers, just make sure the ones in them die of suffocation before the can be dug out, and of that, i'm sure they can succeed
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posted on
05/03/2013 7:37:49 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Chode
They can go "Mistel" with it. Pack one inside a 747 freighter, then put an F-16 piggyback to guide the thing to a point where GPS targeting can take over.
To: tanknetter
now there's an idea... it can carry the shuttle so why not
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posted on
05/03/2013 8:03:23 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Chode
Good observation in your post #49.
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posted on
05/03/2013 10:08:55 PM PDT
by
luvbach1
(We are finished.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
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posted on
05/04/2013 12:01:03 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: Pan_Yan
“Massive Ordnance Penetrator”
LOL... the jokes in repose...
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posted on
05/04/2013 12:06:21 AM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(The Palin Doctrine.)
To: Norm Lenhart; Pan_Yan; no-to-illegals; All
Something that big, even if it did not penetrate all the way would create such a huge mass of debris that it would be almost impossible to dig out, given that we could use smaller bombs to destroy the repair crews and equipment.
To: andyk
Selling these to Israel is the kind of foreign aid I can support.Israel doesn't have a delivery system to carry these that can survive the missile environment they'd have to fly into. The B2 can carry only two of them and only after an $88 million dollar upgrade to only a few planes, courtesy of George W. Bush.
To: Oztrich Boy
Thanks for the picture. :-)
To: Pan_Yan
It has occurred to me that much of the angst that Israel goes through about being able to get to Iran with Iraq, Turkey, and other not so friendly countries in the way (depending on the route chosen... could be resolved if Israel had a specialized aircraft carrier out in the Persian Gulf out of missile range. If Israel has started by buying an older conventional powered carrier and retro fitting for a limited number of aircraft specially modified for heavy loads and long range and short carrier takeoff ... then getting to Iran with the right bomb load and getting back to the carrier would be feasible. Israel has subs to help protect the carrier... So ...
To: JohnBovenmyer
They repeatedly air dropped the Shuttle Enterprise from a modified 747 for approach and landing tests. A roughly 5x greater load than this bomb. I remember that, on the back of the 747.
Design a single use airframe around your penetrator bomb, perhaps with a propulsion package, that can be separated at an appropriate time.
Why not just hang the unit from the bottom of the 747 instead, like a belly tank? It's a long and slender package and the weight would be below the centerline instead of above it.
I don't think it needs any propulsion, just a guidance system. Gravity does the rest.
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posted on
05/04/2013 5:52:45 AM PDT
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Celebrate: Republicans Freed the Slaves Month)
To: ICCtheWay
so launch cruise missiles from the subs and they don't need the carrier...
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posted on
05/04/2013 6:40:24 AM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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