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NO Place Safe to Hide Anymore: Introducing the USAF's GBU-57A/B 'Massive Ordinance Penetrator' (MOP)
Reaganite Republican ^ | December 20, 2011 | Reaganite Republican

Posted on 12/20/2011 8:59:31 AM PST by Reaganite Republican

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1 posted on 12/20/2011 8:59:36 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
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To: Reaganite Republican

Homeland Security is arranging a grant for the Detroit PD to obtain two of these.


2 posted on 12/20/2011 9:05:12 AM PST by maine yankee (I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
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To: Jet Jaguar

Ping.


3 posted on 12/20/2011 9:06:31 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Reaganite Republican

200 feet of concrete? BS. Maybe 200 feet of a concrete structure with hardened concrete outer walls.


4 posted on 12/20/2011 9:07:25 AM PST by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: maine yankee

Why NOT, they’ve already got tanks!


5 posted on 12/20/2011 9:09:01 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
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To: Reaganite Republican
Hmmm;)

Israel-US to hold largest-ever missile defense drill

6 posted on 12/20/2011 9:13:15 AM PST by mdittmar
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To: SgtHooper

I could see a combination of a 15 ton penetrator 600 mph “drilling” action, initial detonation shock and pressure putting destructive heat and pressure through cracks on the far side of 200 feet of concrete.


7 posted on 12/20/2011 9:17:43 AM PST by SENTINEL (Romney is to Conservatism what Mormonism is to Christianity.)
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To: Reaganite Republican

Pretty bad ass.


8 posted on 12/20/2011 9:24:28 AM PST by goseminoles
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To: Reaganite Republican

How long until McLame teams up with obastard to cancel this program as “unnecessary” ala the F22?


9 posted on 12/20/2011 9:24:39 AM PST by piytar (The Obama Depression. Say it early, say it often. Why? Because it's TRUE.)
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To: SENTINEL

Even better would be a series of these...one after another...each is electronically locked on to the previous one...first couple will soften up the impact site ...


10 posted on 12/20/2011 9:26:48 AM PST by spokeshave
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To: Reaganite Republican

I remember the first time they used a MOAB in iraq, the british media was initially reporting “the crazy yanks actually did it, THEY NUKED IRAQ!”

I laughed about that for days.


11 posted on 12/20/2011 9:29:29 AM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: Reaganite Republican

To quote a line from the movie “Blue Thunder”: “...and that’s one helluva sh!tstorm in anyone’s language!”


12 posted on 12/20/2011 9:30:45 AM PST by gimme1ibertee ("Criticism......brings attention to an unhealthy state of things"-Winston Churchill)
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To: Reaganite Republican

To quote a line from the movie “Blue Thunder”: “...and that’s one helluva sh!tstorm in anyone’s language!”


13 posted on 12/20/2011 9:31:48 AM PST by gimme1ibertee ("Criticism......brings attention to an unhealthy state of things"-Winston Churchill)
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To: SENTINEL

i wonder what its terminal velocity is.

600mph sounds pretty fast, thats closing in on the speed of sound. can gravity accelerate an object faster than sound within a 60,000 foot drop? got any math wizards on board here? 32feet per second per second?


14 posted on 12/20/2011 9:34:17 AM PST by beebuster2000
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To: Reaganite Republican

intersting website to calc terminal velocity. took a guess at some numbers and came up with 527mph from 60,000 feet

http://www.calctool.org/CALC/eng/aerospace/terminal


15 posted on 12/20/2011 9:37:23 AM PST by beebuster2000
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To: Reaganite Republican

To quote a line from the movie “Blue Thunder”: “...and that’s one helluva sh!tstorm in anyone’s language!”


16 posted on 12/20/2011 9:41:11 AM PST by gimme1ibertee ("Criticism......brings attention to an unhealthy state of things"-Winston Churchill)
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To: beebuster2000

I assumed 600mph forward release velocity, and enough wind resistance to conservatively thwart any additional acceleration as it approaches the speed of sound.


17 posted on 12/20/2011 9:42:52 AM PST by SENTINEL (Romney is to Conservatism what Mormonism is to Christianity.)
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To: gimme1ibertee

Sorry for the triplicate post....something weird going on w/either my laptop or FR today.:/


18 posted on 12/20/2011 9:43:26 AM PST by gimme1ibertee ("Criticism......brings attention to an unhealthy state of things"-Winston Churchill)
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To: beebuster2000

Without any accelaration behind it, your terminal velocity is about 122 mph


19 posted on 12/20/2011 9:47:37 AM PST by jimjohn
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To: Reaganite Republican

Just in time for Christmas. Christmas in Iran, that is.


20 posted on 12/20/2011 9:48:42 AM PST by katana (Just my opinions)
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