Built in America... tested in IRAN!!!
Posted on 03/29/2007 3:09:55 PM PDT by Reaganesque
Boeing's Phantom Works is leading the effort to demonstrate the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP). The three-phase technology demonstration builds on design studies that Boeing had conducted for the laboratory. Flight testing is envisaged around 2006. The 6 m [20 feet] long MOP features short-span wings and trellis-type tails. The 13,600 kg [30,000 lb] weapon contains a 2,700 kg [6,000 lb] explosive charge. MOP is designed to go deeper than any nuclear bunker buster and take out 25 percent of the underground and deeply buried targets. It is expected to penetrate as much as 60 meters [200 feet] through 5,000 psi reinforced concrete. It will burrow 8 meters into the ground through 10,000 psi reinforced concrete. Northrop Grumman is working on with Boeing to develop this conventional bunker buster. They are under contract to Air Force Research Laboratory's Munitions Directorate at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, and Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
While complete physical destruction may be desired, for some hard and deeply buried targets this effect isn't practicable with current weapons and employment techniques. It may be possible, however, to deny or disrupt the mission or function of a facility. Functional defeat is facilitated through better data collection and intelligence preparation against the potential targets. The defeat process includes finding and identifying a facility, characterizing its function and physical layout, determining its vulnerabilities to available weapons, planning an attack, applying force, assessing damage, and, if necessary, suppressing reconstitution efforts and re-striking the facility. New more lethal defeat options for Hard and Deeply Buried Targets (HDBTs) like the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, that can overwhelm target characterization uncertainties, are being developed and demonstrated to provide a 10x increase in weapon lethality and improved penetration capability compared to inventory weapons.
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That makes my Ruger .44magnum Redhawk look like a derringer!
Can I get me one of those? :-)
If one fires that thing, will the kick leave you with any teeth in your mouth?
Don't count on it. With the Surrender-crats in charge you can be sure that:
1) They'll route all development $$ to forcing the military to allow openly gay officers to marry each other,
2) Petition the U.N. to ban these weapons (with a nod & a wink to Russia, China, & Iran),
3) Dismantle the Pentagon altogether and fulfill Kucinich's wet-dream of a "Department of Peace",
4) Accidentally "leak" the technology to our enemies in return for campaign $$$$, and
5) Send human shields to Iran & Syria to protect those "innocent" bystanders working underground.
How much can an ICBM lift? Can we attach one of these to an ICBM, not risking our airplanes and attacking 100 targets at once?
The proportions are all wrong on that revolver. It looks like it has a growth hormone disorder.
Plus, who would want to shoot it?
MOP = Massive Ordnance for Persia.
Quick, Achmed! We must deploy the Mother of All Diaphragms!
bttt
That was good
this could fix the problems in congress , too. ;^)
That is one bodacious recoil of that there pistol.
ROFL!!! You have to watch this video at #22
Is there video somewhere?
Iran, anyone?
heh-heh-heh.
Yes, lets conduct tests on hardened targets in Teheran.
John
Built in America... tested in IRAN!!!
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