America's new mega-bomb is an absolute terror — but Iran may have the last laugh

The Week ^ | August 5, 2015 | Paul Huard

[GeronL]

give some to the Border Patrol

[2ndDivisionVet]

The real problem is that people like Truman, Reagan, Lincoln or Jackson no longer helm the USA. We have the Muslim version of Caitlyn Jenner or Pee Wee Herman. What good is any weapon with that?

[EvilCapitalist]

And Israel.

[GeronL]

bump

South Korea could use a few with the tunnels they have found from North Korea.

[PGR88]

is designed to burrow through 200 feet of earth and 60 feet of concrete before detonating.

Niagara Falls is 170'. This thing can go 30' more? wow!

[ConservativeInPA]

Mother of All Bombs alert! I find it interesting that it would be delievered from a B-2. I always thought weapons of these sorts have been dropped from C-130’s.

Anyways ... it is waste of taxpayer dollars. We should just use our aging nuclear weapons on all holy sites in Iran. (I believe that is just about every where, lol). And for shits and giggles, drop another nuke on Mecca.

[Pontiac]

MOP is hard to ignore. Especially for Iran, which has placed key components of its nuclear program such as centrifuges deep beneath the earth. But the MOP's delivery system could be shot out of the sky if an adversary has the right kind of air-defense missiles.

Iran wants those missiles — and Russia is willing to sell them

Which is why we should not be wasting time with negotiation and “treaties that are not treaties.”

The time to strike is running out while Obama dithers and Uranium is being enriched.

[Calpublican]

What good does this do us if there is a preemptive strike with an EMP bomb? I thought that was the weapon of the future.

[GeronL]

bump

[WENDLE]

We have squandered our nuclear deterrence. It is 30 years old.. We are in real jeopardy from the Chinese. Real bad jeopardy.

[taildragger]

"And Israel"

Or just give them the plans or one to reverse engineer and they will make a ton of improvements just like they did to the F-4 Phantom.

[Calpublican]

[Iran wants those missiles — and Russia is willing to sell them]

And they’re buying with our money (technically money we borrowed to give them that we probably can’t pay back because our government is printing useless dollars and we are going to collapse from the weight of it). He started the payments in April of this year!!

[null and void]

Capability times resolve equals military might.

With zero's zero resolve this weapon has no utility.

[Pontiac]

MOP — weighs in at 30,000 pounds…the MOP hits the ground at supersonic speed before slamming its way toward a hardened target through layered subterranean defenses such as native rock, reinforced concrete, and steel plates.

The MOP is hitting the ground with at least 23 million foot pounds of force. It then survives that to penetrate through the defenses to successfully detonate.

That is some impressive engineering. My hat is off to the designers.

[KC_Lion]

Having that Dropped on your head would Ruin your day.

[ConservativeInPA]

Exactly. It is a whole lot easier to use munitions than to dispose. It is time to make room and upgrade. (Written only half jokingly)

[headstamp 2]

Like Captain Midnight would ever use it. He’d hand it over to the mullahs first.

[DBrow]

What’s wrong with the B61-11?

[Poison Pill]

It 's a weapon that justifies the use of the word "awesome" to describe its power. The Massive Ordnance Penetrator — or MOP

We should not build and more or these.... until we use up all the ones we now have.