Posted on 04/13/2017 10:00:50 AM PDT by johnk
U.S. forces have dropped what is known as the "mother of all bombs" in Afghanistan. The device is the largest non-nuclear device in the Air Force arsenal, Fox News' Jennifer Griffin reported. It was dropped in Nangarhar Province, an eastern area near the Pakistan border. It's the first time the 21,000-pound ordnance has been used in combat, said Griffin. The device, developed in 2003 by the U.S. Air Force, is called the M.O.A.B, short for Massive Ordnance Air Blast. It's often referred to as the "mother of all bombs." Watch the report above.
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Play time is over. Will the media promote the “civilian”/collateral damage memes?
Rush said they were ISIS tunnels in Afghanistan. Also the pentagon called it the “father of all bombs”. Hehehe
It was only 3 or 4 hours ago that I was reading about Kim Jong Un’s tunnel complex under Pyongyang. Was this a practice run for North Korea?
Probably some guy saw the MOAB sitting in the Munitions Warehouse and asked the question, does anyone know if this thing still works?
I bet the Air Force crews were so excited to drop that load...
It must be boring being a bomber pilot in Afghanistan when operations have drawn down and drones do most of the work (assuming that a bomb of this magnitude and this weight is more trusted to be dropped by a human crew than a drone).
WOW, a one mile blast radius.
Rock and roll!
Fight to won or go home
I think that would call for the bunker-buster. I’m curious though how the moab compares to the daisy-cutter
Do we have your attention Assad? How about you, Kim Jong-un? Hey Iran, are you paying attention as well?
I would love to see that go off.
I don’t want to be on the ground or air nearby...but it would be awesome (in its literal meaning.)
One bad ass mother.
“What a weird coincidence that they would decide to use it right about now.”
Methinks it’s the message-sending. Yeah, there was a tunnel complex that is best destroyed and most easily done so with one of these things lying around. ...thing is, we HAVE these things “lying around”. 59 cruise missiles fired off with short notice, just to tell Assad “don’t do that again”. A MOAB dropped on a tunnel complex in a country we don’t particularly care about anyway, used more as a matter of convenient message than existential necessity. We’re telling NK “we have lots of very big weapons, enough that we think little of dropping them on the likes of you - now cut out the nuke & ICBM stuff before you’re the next in a matter of days”; this in contrast to “yes, NK may have a couple nukes - that’s it, that’s survivable, and using them in any way (test shots included) is gonna PISS US OFF and y’all won’t have any left when we start using ours.”
“My guess is a test drop to assess blast effectiveness against mountainous tunnel complexes.”
Exactly right, with N. Korea in mind.
I think that would call for the bunker-buster. I’m curious though how the moab compares to the daisy-cutter
I’ve seen daisy cutters do their business and they are nothing like this thing.
...you're even more sure this MOAB hit was also a warning to North Korea.
Trump is letting the world know that he plays to WIN!
Probably some guy saw the MOAB sitting in the Munitions Warehouse and asked the question, does anyone know if this thing still works?
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I thought, why not fire it off, to see if it still works. Better than getting permission from the EPA to dismantle it. a big BOOM BOOM.
More than likely. Fat Boy has many ‘paraces’ underground.
I did hear that.
To my knowledge, the MOAB has never been tested anywhere other than the "pine flatlands" of Eglin AFB. A test drop on known mountainous tunnel complexes in Afghanistan could yield interesting data for use in considering the situation in NK.
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