Posted on 03/03/2008 11:46:10 AM PST by jdm
There are three ways to deal with Iranian nukes: (1) new rounds of pointless UN sanctions like the one we got today; (2) a sturdy wallop of Hope and Change, to inspire them into submission; or (3) the last resort. Further to the third, enjoy Danger Room’s update to this item from last April about Tehran manufacturing concrete so super-reinforced that bunkers built with it might be impenetrable to all conventional ordnance, and maybe some not so convention too. The more immovable the object is, the more irresistible the force must be. Enter the BROACH.
Sweet
It could be called the Antiahmadinajad. :-)
It could be called the Antiahmadinajad. :-)
I hope we use them... otherwise it’s worth zilch.
Shock, awe, shake, rattle and ROLL!
There is no problem that cannot be solved with the proper application of HE.
The latest UN report noted all nuclear weapons work was ended in 2003.
So, what is there to bomb?
LOL
“The latest UN report noted all nuclear weapons work was ended in 2003.
So, what is there to bomb?”
Apparently, the Iranian nuclear weapons program.
Imagine the fun a practical joker could have with one of those.
““The latest UN report noted all nuclear weapons work was ended in 2003.
So, what is there to bomb?”
Apparently, the Iranian nuclear weapons program.”
It was actually a US Intel report wasn’t it? The funny thing about it was, that it claims that Iran ended it’s nuclear WEAPONS program in 2003. The entire time Mahmood has been in office, he’s been claiming Iran NEVER had a nuclear weapons program. Yet he claimed victory when this report emerged, basically admitting to having one up until 2003.
Not shocking though, that no one in the press picked up on the tacit admission.
The weapons can penetrate two hundred feet of Big Dig concrete.
Don’t make any difference if we don’t use them.
A while back, the US developed a superior bunker buster weapon, shaped like a rocket, called the “Deep Digger”, that was able to penetrate much further than a typical bunker buster:
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002177.html
However, since this time, not a single word about it. I figure either it had a fatal flaw, or quite possibly, it didn’t.
So, what is there to bomb?
The UN building unless they surrender and leave the U.S.
Video: New Bomb Targets Iranian-Type Super Bunkers
By David Hambling March 03, 2008 | 12:08:00 PMCategories: Ammo and Munitions
The Iranians are making advances in super-hard new types of concrete, leading to the possibility of nearly-invulnerable underground bunkers. Now, Raytheon has announced a new bunker-busting cruise missile warhead specially tailored to deal with these kinds of structures.
Normal bunker busters, which rely on sheer impact force, might not fare well against something much harder than standard concrete, with the risk that they might glance off or even break up. Raytheon’s new, two-stage weapon uses a shaped charge to punch a precursor hole through the concrete, before the explosive warhead follows. According to Flight International:
In a recent static test, the warhead fell just short of its goal of blasting through a 6.1m (20ft) thick block of ultra-hard high-pressure concrete. Raytheon plans another ground test, and is working with the US Navy towards a flight demonstration using a Tomahawk cruise missile, says Harry Schulte, vice-president strike weapons.
The technology has been around for a while — it was first put forward by BAE (the former British Aerospace) under the name BROACH — “Bomb Royal Ordnance Augmented CHarge” — as a cruise missile warhead. BAE teamed with Raytheon and it was evaluated as a possible warhead for the AGM-86D bunker busting cruise missile but lost out to Lockheed-Martin’s kinetic AUP-3, which can go through twelve feet of concrete. Curiously, though, the AGM-86D was retired soon after it went into service — in spite of having been successfully used Iraq. (Stephen Trimble’s DEW Line blog has the full story.) The new Raytheon penetrator just demonstrated is sized to fit the stealthy AGM-129 advanced cruise missile — also a Raytheon product — which is carried on B-52s. The Air Force have not yet showed any interest.
“We think this is the biggest ever built,” says Schulte, describing the 24-inch shaped charge. Well, it might be the biggest precursor warhead ever made (it’s a small field) but there have been bigger shaped charges. As far as I know, the record holder is the WWII German Mistel, an experimental unmanned suicide aircraft with a colossal 3800 kg shaped charge intended to take out battleships. Also known as the Beethoven Device, it was supposedly capable of piercing sixty feet of concrete.
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