Posted on 04/14/2017 6:00:00 AM PDT by Rebelbase
Drone Video of the detonation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=E8n3Mwo94zI
Don’t you know the flight crew git their jollies!
Slow this morning. Stupid question time aka MOABs for Dummies :-)
2 booms! on video—Same drop, different views or was second blast a result of force generated by MOAB?
36 bodies were identified. The weapon is guided by maneuverable fins on the back.
I’m thinking that this bomb would suck up all of the oxygen in the tunnels and suffocate those who weren’t killed by the blast...the way flame throwers did in the Pacific islands during WWII.
Its always raining and gloomy where you are, huh?
North Korea - - with their massive underground nuclear test facilities - - got a message: The United States has more air blast bombs... and we’re willing to drop ‘em...
HOME :: PUBLICATIONS :: How North Korea could kill 90 percent of Americans, by AMBASSADOR R. JAMES WOOLSEY, DR. PETER VINCENT PRY
How North Korea could kill 90 percent of Americans
by AMBASSADOR R. JAMES WOOLSEY, DR. PETER VINCENT PRY
March 31, 2017
The mainstream media, and some officials who should know better, continue to allege North Korea does not yet have capability to deliver on its repeated threats to strike the U.S. with nuclear weapons. False reassurance is given to the American people that North Korea has not “demonstrated” that it can miniaturize a nuclear warhead small enough for missile delivery, or build a reentry vehicle for an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of penetrating the atmosphere to blast a U.S. city.
Yet any nation that has built nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, as North Korea has done, can easily overcome the relatively much simpler technological challenge of warhead miniaturization and reentry vehicle design.
Indeed, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un has been photographed posing with what appears to be a genuine miniaturized nuclear warhead for ballistic missiles. And North Korea does, in fact, have two classes of ICBMs-the road mobile KN-08 and KN-14-which both appear to be equipped with sophisticated reentry vehicles.
Even if it were true that North Korea does not yet have nuclear missiles, their “Dear Leader” could deliver an atomic bomb hidden on a freighter sailing under a false flag into a U.S. port, or hire their terrorist allies to fly a nuclear 9/11 suicide mission across the unprotected border with Mexico. In this scenario, populous port cities like New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, or big cities nearest the Mexican border, like San Diego, Phoenix, Austin, and Santa Fe, would be most at risk.
A Hiroshima-type A-Bomb having a yield of 10-kilotons detonated in a major city would cause about 200,000 casualties from blast, thermal, and radiation effects. North Korea has tested a nuclear weapon having an estimated yield of 20-30 kilotons. The Defense Department assesses that on January 6, 2016, North Korea may have tested components of an H-Bomb. H-Bombs are much more powerful than A-Bombs and can produce much greater casualties-millions of casualties in a big city like New York.
The notion that North Korea is testing A-Bombs and H-Bomb components, but does not yet have the sophistication to miniaturize warheads and make reentry vehicles for missile delivery is absurd.
What would we use to drop that?
I worked at Eglin AFB and know a little about the GBU-43. It is satellite/GPS guided and can hit a target with extremely good accuracy.
BFL
The weapon is intended to have a high altitude release, allowing for greater stand-off range for the delivery vehicle. Following deployment from the aircraft via drogue parachute, the MOAB weapon is guided approximately 3 nautical miles through a GPS system (with inertial gyros for pitch and roll control), JDAM actuators, and is stabilized by series of fixed wings and grid fins. The weapon, which uses the aircraft’s GPS prior to launch, takes several seconds to reconnect to the GPS signal after it has been deployed, which is normal for GPS weapons.
I am guessing a C-130 or C-117
I only see a singular boom in the video. Which video are watching?
If you are talking about the color video, it’s a fake. The color video was of an airstrike in Yemen last year.
This brought to mind an old movie MIRAGE (1965) in which Gregory Peck developes amnesia as people associated with him are assassinated.
Cut to the chase....The reason is he has been working on an atomic style bomb that did not release radiation.
I think we have it.
Any idea of the scale of the video?
Every time we post on here it’s kinda like a public IQ test, ya know?
So far, in its two deployments it has been carried by a C-130.
Ah...a C-117 might be overkill anyway. Thanks for your insight.
Thanks. It was the color video..not the MOAB
wonder how I landed there. Still not fully awake, LOL!
How do you protect the C-130, from concentrated air defenses, seems like it would be a sitting duck. So how could you really use it effectively?
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