EGLIN STUDYING MASSIVE 30,000 POUND BOMB, 40 PERCENT BIGGER THAN MOAB! (IT'S CALLED A MOP!)

LOCAL 10 ^ | 11/08/04

[ko_kyi]

American engineers to terrorists: Watch this drive!

[aspiring.hillbilly]

weapons grade high order ping

[Robert A Cook PE]

This (the deep penetrator) is a newer version of the conventional Grand Slam 40,000 lb bobm of WWII.

TallBoy was the 12,000 lb version dropped from Lancasters from around 25,000 feet: they and the Grand Slam were designed to be spin-stablized so they'ed penetrate the sound barrier without tumbling.

B-29's, B-36 dropped this size weapon after the war. A GrandSlam is at the MD Aberdeen Proving Ground museum, and a Tall Boy is in storage there if anybody wants to go look at them.
New version is almost certainly GPS guided so spin-stablizing is out, but they'ed be supersonic to go as deep as possible.

Too big for bomb bays?

Nah.

Depending on length, diameter, tail fin length, and mounting hardware, the B-52, B-1, and B-2 could easily hold one or more that sized bomb.

Figure up to 6 foot dia (more like only 48-66 inch diameter though), and a length of 15-20 foot. probably half of the mass is hardened steel nose and casing to go through concrete and rock to get 100-150 feet underground before exploding.

Expect a crater of 100 foot diameter at the surface, and a 200 foot destruction diameter underground.

[Jambe]

MOAB I

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

External hard points.

[Mount Athos]

isn't a fuel air explosive more powerful than this?

[demlosers]

You couldn't mount a bomb that big on the centerline of any current US bomber (not enough clearance). I don't know of any aircraft, other than a transport, that could carry it.

OK, how about a wing mount like the AGM-28 Hound Dog:

Even though the AGM-28 weighs 20,000 lbs less than the MOP.

We need pics...

[mentor2k]

learned something, thanks.

[Jambe]

MOAB II

[areafiftyone]

The main destructive force of FAE is high overpressure, useful against soft targets such as minefields, armored vehicles, aircraft parked in the open, and bunkers.

Animation of a FAE

[areafiftyone]

The main destructive force of FAE is high overpressure, useful against soft targets such as minefields, armored vehicles, aircraft parked in the open, and bunkers.

Animation of a FAE

[skikvt]

MOP:

They need a better acronym. This one just doesn't inspire an acceptable amount of fear.

[Bacon Man]

It's still not as big of a bomb as "Alfie." ;)

Don't forget Gigli! The MOP of box office flops! :)

[billhilly]

"I was just about to ask.................."What the heck are they going to drop it from??"

The Eiffel Tower???

[theDentist]

Tie 'er on underneath and cut the rope at the right time! :)

[yarddog]

My Father worked at Eglin for nearly 35 years.

When I was a kid, I could go to the high point of our pasture and watch the planes bomb at a nearby bombing range. Couldn't see them actually release the bombs but could see them diving, then hear and feel the impact. Often would also hear the roar of a Vulcan.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

What do they have that we don't know about? They won't design a new plan just to drop an ordinance.

things that make you go......SkunkWorks LIVES!!!! He Alive!

LOL

[Robert A Cook PE]

No.

The size would fit: figure 1 6 foot width of B-52, B-1, or B-2 bomb bay. Leave 6 inches each side for rack clearance; you have plenty of room.

Remeber, unlike the large diameter MOAB (fuel-air explosive mix) carried by a very-unstealthy C-130 and dropped out the back of the cargo bay, this has a cast AP steel sheel and 6 inch to 12 inch thick nose cone to stay "solid" as it goes through 100 feet of rock and reinforced concrete.

This bomb itself is long and relative thin so it goes faster in air as it falls, rather than a MOAB which is big because is little more a large "liquid" filled can of gasoline with a parachute to slow it even more!

[Chemist_Geek]

Ishtar.

[madvlad]

A giant, aerodynamic phallous.

With one big wad! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

MV