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USAF seeks out low-collateral damage Mk 82 bomb
Flight Global ^ | 7/1/2010 | Stephen Trimble

Posted on 06/30/2010 7:50:50 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld

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To: sonofstrangelove

Actually if you recall the Tom Clancy novel and movie “Patriot Games”, the AF dropped a cellulose-cased bomb on a drug kingpin’s house, but the reason was strictly deniability...there would be no evidence of a US weapon left at the site. Or so they thought.


41 posted on 07/01/2010 4:03:36 AM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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To: sonofstrangelove
Mk82 was 500 lbs. Not our heaviest, but it was the heaviest we would use man power to lift. And also we used a whole lot more of the Mk 82s than any other. Today they attach guidance packages to these and can be accurate as any missile.
42 posted on 07/01/2010 5:35:47 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: pfflier

LOL! Now I feel old.


43 posted on 07/01/2010 5:39:25 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: sonofstrangelove

I think dropping pictures of all democratic female politicians would be a cheaper way to paralyze an enemy. Shock and Awe!


44 posted on 07/01/2010 5:43:38 AM PDT by jetson
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To: Sender

LOL!! That, sir (or madam), is brilliant!


45 posted on 07/01/2010 5:56:28 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: pfflier
Sadly, I'm old enough to get it. I believe I have that song in my MP3 collection. ;-)

Even sadder still, I don't think your joke will be far from the truth.

There will no-doubt be a section of the evaluation report on the composite bomb/bomblets that addresses environmental safety for the ordies storing and handling it. Can't have any outgassing of dangerous or carcinogenic volatiles from the composites.

Also they'll no-doubt want to know about the decomposition properties in the target area after it has exploded. How much of it will be consumed by the explosion, how much may burn in the resulting fires afterwards, and what environmental impact any remaining unburned or partially burned composite residue will have. Don't laugh, I'll bet the enviro-whackos will want to make sure we don't permanently pollute the target area. The hand-wringers will want to ensure we don't leave behind sharp shards of composite material that someone picking through the wreckage might cut themselves on. ;-/

46 posted on 07/01/2010 6:08:13 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (obama out now! I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom - you can keep the change.)
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To: sonofstrangelove
Now that's what I'm talking about !! Dumb bombs and an iron gunsight..a lost art.
47 posted on 07/01/2010 6:09:29 AM PDT by a6intruder (downtown with big bombs, 24/7, rain or shine, day or night)
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To: brityank

Thank you for remembering the DSL!


48 posted on 07/01/2010 6:12:44 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Sender

I was wondering how long it would take for a FReeper to mention Clancy and that stealth bomb.


49 posted on 07/01/2010 6:46:34 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 524 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Sender

(ummm, wasn’t it “Clear and Present Danger”?)....


50 posted on 07/01/2010 6:50:00 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 524 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Sender

The logical inverse of a daisy cutter...sort of.


51 posted on 07/01/2010 6:56:08 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: NavyCanDo
That's why us Air Force guys used a Jammer (MJ-1 For the civilians) Lot of fun too; almost got busted doing a wheelie.
52 posted on 07/01/2010 7:04:57 AM PDT by Wilum (Never loaded a nuke I didn't like)
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To: sonofstrangelove
The first 50 Precision Lethality Mk 82 bombs could be delivered by January 2011, with up to 750 carbonfibre-wound warheads designated as BLU-129/B to follow.

Apparently, these people are not as well informed as they should be on the ramifications of "carbonfibre" in bomb casings. Metal shrapnel is easy to find in a damaged but living body - even if the trauma surgeon can't see it, he can still image it with x-ray or other technology. Composites with carbon fibers (I'm in the States, so I won't use the Brit spelling) are almost impossible to find with most imaging technologies. That means that while the shrapnel is less penetrating, it is also much harder to remove from the injured. Doctors have to do a lot of exploratory surgery to find the little bits of carbon fiber, which look and even feel a whole lot like they belong in the human body.

Have we just paid for another weapon that will never be used because it's "inhumane"?

53 posted on 07/01/2010 7:32:27 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: VeniVidiVici
BTW, we already have something like this called the Neutron Bomb.
Hey, if it was up to me I would have, long ago, used our neutron bombs on large swaths of this planet, so that those areas could be then repopulated with nice folk.
54 posted on 07/01/2010 7:57:51 AM PDT by I Buried My Guns (Novare Res!)
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To: NavyCanDo

The Mk 82 is the warhead for the GBU-12 laser-guided bombs and for the GBU-38 JDAM


55 posted on 07/01/2010 4:11:44 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld ( "Fortes fortuna adiuvat"-Fortune Favors the Strong)
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To: null and void

Yes you are right, it was Clear and Present Danger.


56 posted on 07/01/2010 6:22:04 PM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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To: Constitution Day

Thank you, neither Sir nor Madam but just a guy with a beer and a bunch of guns to clean :) I’m still waiting for Her Majesty to make me a Sir.


57 posted on 07/01/2010 6:55:54 PM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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