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To: bob_denard
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.

15 posted on 08/08/2015 6:21:55 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac

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.

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I would think that it would still need to detonate at a specific depth or when it hits a hollow area in order to be effective.


23 posted on 08/08/2015 7:02:46 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Pontiac

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_Wallis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_bomb


34 posted on 08/08/2015 8:00:58 PM PDT by BwanaNdege (.)
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