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Northrop Grumman Begins Work To Equip B-2 Bomber With Massive Penetrator Weapon
Spacewar.com ^
| Jul 20, 2007
| Staff Writers
Posted on 07/20/2007 4:49:03 AM PDT by biggerten
The U.S. Air Force's B-2 stealth bomber would be able to attack and destroy an expanded set of hardened, deeply buried military targets using a new 30,000 pound-class penetrator weapon that Northrop Grumman has begun integrating on the aircraft. The company is doing the work under a seven-month, $2.5 million contract awarded June 1 by the Air Force's Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio. Northrop Grumman is the Air Force's prime contractor on the B-2, the flagship of the nation's long-range strike arsenal.
The new Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), which is being developed by The Boeing Company, is a GPS-guided weapon containing more than 5,300 pounds of conventional explosives inside a 20.5-foot long enclosure of hardened steel. It is designed to penetrate dirt, rock and reinforced concrete to reach enemy bunker or tunnel installations. The B-2 is capable of carrying two MOPs, one in each weapons bay.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aerospace; b2; bomb; bush; congress; defensecontractors; iran; iraq; islam; israel; mic; northropgrumman; penetrator; shockandawe; stealth
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Now why the heck would anybody want to sneak into a country and drop two 30,000 lb bunker busters on their heads? I just can't figure it out.
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posted on
07/20/2007 4:49:05 AM PDT
by
biggerten
To: biggerten
"I just can't figure it out."*Snicker*
Some Iranian dictator I can't pronounce or spell just had his butt pucker up a little tighter when he read this.....
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posted on
07/20/2007 4:54:11 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
To: biggerten
I would start sleeping in a tent.
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posted on
07/20/2007 4:56:06 AM PDT
by
Agent Smith
(Fallujah delenda est. (I wish))
To: biggerten
To: Abathar
ImANutJob didn’t show on those I wanted to ping...
To: biggerten
The B-2 is capable of carrying two MOPs, one in each weapons bay. 
"Hey Ahmed. What's that?
It's that MOP you ordered Mr. Ahmadinejad.
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posted on
07/20/2007 5:02:45 AM PDT
by
bikerMD
(Beware, the light at the end of the tunnel may be a muzzle flash.)
To: biggerten
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posted on
07/20/2007 5:04:29 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
To: biggerten
In time for Iran’s nuclear winter — whether it be their atomic bombs or ours...
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posted on
07/20/2007 5:08:11 AM PDT
by
topher
(Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
To: biggerten
Quote from the article:
...”According to Mazur, the Air Force is expected to make a decision later this year on whether to develop a limited operational capability for the MOP, or to proceed with a more comprehensive development program that would optimize the weapon’s operational utility...”
Spoken like a polished bureaucrat. How bout: The MOP will take bunker building and busting to a whole new level - sooner rather then later.
Now back to FR tutorials.
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posted on
07/20/2007 5:14:02 AM PDT
by
mcshot
(They spend foolishly on wine, women and song with little evidence of song.)
To: biggerten
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posted on
07/20/2007 5:16:00 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: biggerten
Cleanup in aisle 3! Bring a MOP!
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posted on
07/20/2007 5:16:27 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Progressives like to keep doing the things that didn't work in the past.)
To: biggerten
**** It is designed to penetrate dirt, rock and reinforced concrete to reach enemy bunker or tunnel installations. ***
Makkah!
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posted on
07/20/2007 5:18:32 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(When someone burns a cross on your lawn the best firehose is an AK-47.)
To: Diogenesis
Tora Bora doesn’t have any air defense. B-2’s are for a country with an air defense capability.
To: topher
Nuclear winter doesn’t fit your tag line.
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posted on
07/20/2007 5:36:38 AM PDT
by
em2vn
To: biggerten
Size matters.
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posted on
07/20/2007 6:16:53 AM PDT
by
Doctor Raoul
(What's the difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic? The Free Clinic knows how to stop leaks.)
To: Diogenesis
Aren’t the rules here that when you mention Tora Bora you have to post pictures of Geraldo?
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posted on
07/20/2007 6:18:12 AM PDT
by
Doctor Raoul
(What's the difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic? The Free Clinic knows how to stop leaks.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
To: biggerten
They must've gotten out their magnets.
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posted on
07/20/2007 6:23:50 AM PDT
by
mutley
To: Doctor Raoul
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posted on
07/20/2007 6:29:17 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
To: Diogenesis
That’s an interesting graphic. Does it represent present thinking or does it relate to earlier battles in the area.
My tired old eyes can’t read the fine print.
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posted on
07/20/2007 6:30:32 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Happiness is a down sleeping bag)
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