Bunker-buster could affect U.S.-Iran relations

Kansas.com ^ | 11/6/2007 | SCOTT CANON

[jbp1]

it takes time
rules
regs
specs
testing
design
contracts
manpower
scheduling
funding
technology
luck
boo-ocra-see

[jbp1]

Tell Allah(who has lost every war against the West he has ever been in) ......

i’m not good with historical dates, but i think sometime like 1453 the turks won one for ol allah - not the first time either

[6ppc]

MOP? Mother of all penetrators? They should mount a rocket engine on one of these to boost the kinetic energy.

[Gondring]

Let it rain MOABS in Iran!

You minimize the threat so flippantly...on what basis?

Iran's geology--and the regime's utilization of it--is not the same as Iraq's, and we definitely need the MOP, unless you know something I don't.*

*I was approached by a major military contractor about something like "mapping the geologic resistance to penetration weapons of an unnamed Middle-Eastern country" about 15 years ago. Although I didn't take the offer, I did look into things (soil/rock/structural/etc. info) on my own, and a bit more than just Iraq, and have followed the political developments since. I believe MOABs won't cut it there for the types of strikes that will be require, but that's just my rough non-expert opinion on unclassified data.

[Seadog Bytes]

NICE!
...Good HUNTING!

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[dennisw]

You can’t fool me. That’s the Arizona meteor crater

[dennisw]

def

[Seadog Bytes]

Can you send me a link to a crater in Iran... soon?

[taildragger]

Yep, that’s the way I read it too.

What you read in "Av-Leak" (aviation week and space technology) may not be so :-)......

[Redleg Duke]

Yeah! And they say it as if it was a bad thing! LOL!

[Redleg Duke]

"A high-ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee called the funding request “a clear red flag.” Rep. Jim McDermott, a Washington state Democrat....."

To whom I respond, "DUH!"

[PhilDragoo]

Let's go huntin' with Dick Cheney

[Don Corleone]

Can dig a hole as deep as you want in 3.5 seconds no matter what is down there

Non Union labor too. /snic

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Now that is down right funny.

[CCGuy]

Please trust an old Air Force guy when he tells you it could easily be done. Large numbers of bombs totaling much more than that have been dropped in combat before.

[phillyfanatic]

When Bagdad Jim McDermott thinks the bunker buster is a bad idea, it is a wonderful idea.Build it and use it or let Israel use it when the time comes.

[Lancey Howard]

Eavedropper McDermott sees “a red flag”?
I thought that sick scumbag only wants to see the US wave a white flag?

[CCGuy]

The only thing they need to do is reinforce the internal parts that hold the weapon in the bay. All of that weight from one single weapon will put a lot of stress in one location.

The bomb bays and doors on the B-2 are actually quite big so the bomb will fit inside. Some reinforcement work, some new software, and our bomber crews will be ready to bury a lot of nuclear scientists and facilities in their underground tombs.