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B-2 Bomber Gets Boeing's New 30,000-Pound Bunker-Buster Bomb
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| November 15, 2011
| Tony Capaccio
Posted on 11/16/2011 5:51:03 AM PST by lbryce
The U.S. Air Force has taken delivery of a new 30,000-pound bomb from Boeing Co. that's capable of penetrating deeply buried enemy targets.
The huge bunker buster, dubbed the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, is built to fit the B-2 stealth bomber. The Air Force Global Strike Command started receiving the bombs in September, Air Force spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jack Miller said in a short statement to Bloomberg News.
The deliveries "will meet requirements for the current operational need," he said.
The Air Force in 2009 said Boeing might build as many as 16 of the munitions. Miller yesterday had no details on how many the Air Force plans to buy. Boeing in August received a $32 million contract that included eight of the munitions.
Command head Lieutenant General James Kowalski told the annual Air Force Association conference in September the command "completed integration" of the bunker-buster bomb with the B- 2, "giving the war-fighter increased capability against hardened and deeply buried targets."
The bomb is the U.S. military's largest conventional penetrator. It's six times bigger than the 5,000-pound bunker buster that the Air Force now uses to attack deeply buried nuclear, biological or chemical sites.
Chicago-based Boeing is manufacturing the bomb, which was successfully demonstrated in March 2007.
Iranian Bunkers
The B-2, developed by Falls Church, Virginia-based Northrop Grumman Corp., has a shape and skin capable of evading radar. It's the only U.S. bomber designed to penetrate air defenses such as those believed in use by North Korea and Iran. It's also the only aircraft currently capable of carrying the new bomb.
The B-2 has bombed targets in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Three in March flew round-trip, non-stop missions from Missouri to Libya in the opening hours of U.S. air strikes, dropping 45 bombs.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ahmajinedad; bunkerbuster; iran; mop; sleeplessintehran
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The acquisition of a new 30,000-pound bomb from Boeing Co. by The U.S. Air Force that penetrates deeper with considerably more destructive power is not intended to send any sort of message to third-world, oil producing terrorist nations in the process of acquiring nuclear weapons bent on wreaking global havoc, in any way, shape, matter or form. Any connection to the Air Force's newest, most formidable weapon and certain Mad Mullahs of Mayhem recently sleepless in Tehran is mere coincidence. [sarcasm /off]
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posted on
11/16/2011 5:51:04 AM PST
by
lbryce
To: lbryce
The gift that keeps on giving from the Show-Me.
To: lbryce
This is merely for PR.
There is no way Obama would drop one of these on Iran.
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posted on
11/16/2011 5:55:40 AM PST
by
PGR88
(I'm so open-minded my brains fell out)
To: lbryce
Time to MOP up Iran.........
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posted on
11/16/2011 5:56:47 AM PST
by
roaddog727
(It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
To: lbryce; Eric in the Ozarks; PGR88; roaddog727
You load 15 tons and wadda you get
A bunker buster bomb that's the best one yet
St. Peter don't you call me cause I can't go
I gotta drop a bomb on a Mullah a..hole
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posted on
11/16/2011 6:08:49 AM PST
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: Enterprise
I'm trying to find a rhyme for “Massive Ordinance Penitrator.”
To: Enterprise
They’re doing testing up at Eglin. I go up there now and again.
I guess I need to schedule my next trip up there when they’re doing testing..........
Woo Hoo!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
11/16/2011 6:13:37 AM PST
by
roaddog727
(It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
To: Enterprise
Tennessee Ernie would be downright, mighty proud of you. :-)
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posted on
11/16/2011 6:14:08 AM PST
by
lbryce
(There is no Pro-Choice option. It's either providing the gift of life or murder.)
To: Enterprise
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posted on
11/16/2011 6:15:28 AM PST
by
stuartcr
("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
To: lbryce
This story was originally posted on FR yesterday and was released by TASS, the Russian news agency.
Now we know one of the primary news sources of the San Francisco Chronicle.
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posted on
11/16/2011 6:44:23 AM PST
by
pfflier
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Multiple Muslim Eliminator..
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posted on
11/16/2011 6:48:40 AM PST
by
ken5050
(Perry/Gingrich 2012!!)
To: lbryce
I wonder how much it will penetrate? The Iranians have put some of their nuclear facilities inside mountains, like we have at Cheyenne Mtn. It probably couldn't penetrate 1000s of feet of granite. It could probably make a mess of the entrance though!
Mike
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posted on
11/16/2011 6:50:14 AM PST
by
MichaelP
(The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools ~HS)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
You load 15 tons and wadda you get
A kick ass bomb that's a real incinerator
No place to run, no place to hide
Here comes the Massive Ordinance Penitrator.
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posted on
11/16/2011 6:50:54 AM PST
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: lbryce
The Israeli Air Force would have a hard time delivering that thing. Just sayin’.
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posted on
11/16/2011 6:52:42 AM PST
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: lbryce; All
Questions:
1. Do they have to remove the rotary launcher form the bomb-bay to fit this bomb inside?
2. Can anyone give a quick explanation, or a link, as to how it can penetrate 200 FEET of hardened concrete before exploding?...that's remarkable
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posted on
11/16/2011 6:54:00 AM PST
by
ken5050
(Perry/Gingrich 2012!!)
To: stuartcr; lbryce; roaddog727; Eric in the Ozarks
Thanks. Loved the song as a kid, and it's still a great one.
Reporter: So how's the MOP business going these days?
Plant manager: It's booming.
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posted on
11/16/2011 6:54:07 AM PST
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: ken5050
You have a series of small explosions the push the war head farther and farther into the ground/mountain/concrete. It is really a series of small bombs that add up to 30000 pounds. Now you know the secret you will have to be “dealt” with...
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posted on
11/16/2011 6:57:08 AM PST
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: lbryce
That should reach Ah’m-A-Dinner-Jug’s basement!
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posted on
11/16/2011 6:58:02 AM PST
by
RoadTest
(For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
“Mega Orifice Discumbobulator”
AKA “Rippin em a new one”
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posted on
11/16/2011 6:58:14 AM PST
by
Puckster
To: Enterprise
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