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To: skimbell
Looks like it was dropped from a C-130. A parachute drug the thing out the back of the plane.

B-2 can drop it.

78 posted on 04/13/2017 10:32:34 AM PDT by fso301
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To: fso301

>>>B-2 can drop it<<<

A MOAB can fit in the B-2 Bomb Bay?


91 posted on 04/13/2017 10:37:37 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: fso301

Looks like it was dropped from a C-130. A parachute drug the thing out the back of the plane.

B-2 can drop it.

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This one, the GBU-43, is not designed to be dropped from a B-2. It does, however, have a guidance system that allows the C-130 to fly much higher than they had to fly do drop the older Daisy Cutter which descended by parachute.

The GBU-57 is meant for the B-2 and I believe a B-52 could also carry it. It is a 30,000 lb bomb known as the Massive Ordinance Penetrator. Unlike the MOAB, it’s designed to penetrate the ground before detonation and is meant to target very hard underground targets.


166 posted on 04/13/2017 11:21:29 AM PDT by utahb52
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