Posted on 04/13/2017 11:13:04 PM PDT by Yosemitest
36 << 600
36? That’s all? Zero bang for the buck. Like using a million dollar Hellfire (?) to take out a tent and a camel.
The goal was to put the huge tunnel complex out of business. Body count was secondary to filling the tunnels with rubble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0BG_GBOFTw
Now that’s impressive. I like how the blast wave knocks the camera around, I wasn’t expecting that.
That’s one big cloud of stuff.....
The commenters at YouTube are all saying that this is some other bomb in Yemen and not the MOAB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0BG_GBOFTw
Also known as: "We're gonna need a bigger tripod."
If th4 ISIS fighters were underground, you’ll never recover all their bodies. Some will be human pancakes; others, mush.
However, if some of the tunnels are opened up, our forces should recover valuable intell information, esp. documents, communications equipment, computers, walkie talkies/Iphones, etc.
It will take some time to do this but the ISIS guys aren’t going anywhere, ever.
I was reading where the “Daisy Cutter” was about half the size of the MOAB - so interesting if this is older footage. (I bet it is). I was also reading on how much of the effect of the bomb was “shock and awe” (and surrender).
The way the wording is in this brief, could the “36 terrorists killed after US bombed Afghanistan” mean as the troops went in they killed 36 terrorists, in addition to any unknown killed by the bomb.? I’m guessing any near the surface would have disintegrated, and any underground will spend eternity down there.
Interesting is the guy filming it ...once it went off in the first flame out..ran to hide behind a pillar in the community below...then he gets hit with the aftershock wave roaring past him....
I wash stunned just watching that Moab hit I cannot imagine being that close without it instilling a huge dose of ‘terror’. No wonder they say the pshcological effect is part of it's use....along with the aftershock and flames.....just wow!
Tell me please about the after shock wave that roared by the person filming this.....just the sound of the blast got him running for cover behind the pillar...but the wave seemed to throw him way off balance...and how far away is that actually heard?
If you youtube ‘bomb explosion in TORO BORO’ there’s one which is shown on a rocky hillside that looked sort of like this.....I remember seeing it during the attacks there when they first began fighting the Taliban before Iraq.....that was stunning to watch as well....
But, almost 2600 virgins gained, “employment”
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