[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?

[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!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[yarddog]

During the first Gulf War, they needed a penetrater for some express purpose.

The wizards at Eglin sawed off the barrel of a tank and used to make a penetrating bomb sufficient to do the job. They did so in just a few days.

[Bon mots]

Iran does have the last laugh...

So does North Korea...

So does Russia...

[Moonman62]

Delivered by the stealthy B-2 Spirit heavy strategic bomber from as high as 20,000 feet,

...

That seems kind of low.

[plain talk]

It's the king of the so-called "bunker busters" and is the largest non-nuclear weapon in the world.

The question that comes to mind is whether they can equip this bomb with a nuke and would it still operate as designed piggy-backed to the earth-burrowing mechanism

[nuconvert]

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[AmericanCheeseFood]

Well duh!

Once we gave the specs on what the bomb can do, of course the only thing the enemies have to do is build deeper and better.

Which is why we had the loose lips sink ships thing going on back when we had to go about war appropriately without the media nannies.

[familyop]

The MOP has been ready to use for several years.

[wiggen]

i’m thinking a weapon like that doesn’t have to hit a hard target. Plenty of earthquakes in Iran. Hit a fault line and multiply the damage.

[justa-hairyape]

So they built deep underground facilities because they wanted people to think they were not developing nuclear weapons ?