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To: Robert DeLong

They dropped a GBU-43/B which is a concussive bomb. Not to be confused with the GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP).

Another reason to drop the GBU-43/B is a pissing contest to see if the Russians will drop their Father of All Bombs or FOAB - Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power (ATBIP) - (a thermobaric bomb) weighing in at 44 tons of TNT.

Popcorn anyone?


28 posted on 04/15/2017 2:25:36 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

The penetrator bomb would be less effective for random shallow tunnels and caves than against a known location, deeply sheltered single critical military (political) bomb shelter or weapons facility.

Thus the Iranian a-bomb facilities are a penetrator target, as are the NORK bomb shelters and weapons test tunnels. The Muslim targets in the hills are the better air-aerosol explosive that kills over a larger area.


36 posted on 04/15/2017 2:34:13 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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