If war comes, the United States may unleash a new weapon, seen here in a photo exclusive to NBC News. Nicknamed "the mother of all bombs," it's the U.S. military's biggest conventional weapon, weighing 21,000 pounds.
Posted on 03/06/2003 8:10:06 AM PST by finnman69
If war comes, the United States may unleash a new weapon, seen here in a photo exclusive to NBC News. Nicknamed "the mother of all bombs," it's the U.S. military's biggest conventional weapon, weighing 21,000 pounds.
U.S. triples ‘no fly’ sorties over Iraq
If war comes, the United States may unleash a new weapon, seen here in a photo exclusive to NBC News. Nicknamed "the mother of all bombs," it's the U.S. military's biggest conventional weapon, weighing 21,000 pounds.
March 5 — At the Pentagon on Wednesday, America’s top war planners openly warned Saddam Hussein of what’s coming his way if President Bush decides to pull the trigger. NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski reports.
SOME 300,000 U.S. troops are now in or nearing the region, and NBC News has learned that U.S. forces now in northern Iraq are working with the Kurds to improve airstrips where troops of the storied 101st Airborne Division would land in the event of war.
The increased air missions, first reported Wednesday, are an unmistakable sign that, while President Bush has not yet announced an intention to go to war, the Pentagon is close to having set the stage for an invasion.
A senior defense officials said the Pentagon had ordered an irregular pattern of flights over invasion routes in the south, making it more difficult for Iraqi air defenders to foresee a shift from air patrols to actual combat.
Several hundred sorties a day are now being flown over southern Iraq, including F-16 and other attack planes as well as surveillance, refueling and other support aircraft, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The official did not reveal specific numbers.
The United States and Britain have been flying patrols over northern and southern Iraq since the end of the 1991 Gulf War as a way to contain Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from cracking down on ethnic groups in those regions.
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This momma creates the biggest "vibrations" ..........if you get MY drift!!
This is about more than Iraq!!
You don't move 400,000 troops, take care of a problem, then bring them home, only to redeploy a year or two later.
This time we will clean out the entire rotten neighborhood.
That means the terrorists in Syria and Iran.
Bush will not make the same mistake his father made in 1991 when he did not move to Baghdad.
The troops are in theater.......they will be used!!
Intimidation is just as good a lever as warfare, especially when dealing with insecure cowards!!
Its not the size that matters :-)
The diameter to length ratio is such that this almost looks like a penetration weapon designed for busting deep bunkers.
A "daisy cutter" is much fatter in relation to it's length.
Kind of like receiving a visit from a "Balrog" in the Mines of Moria huh?
That about sums it up.
(no virgins for Jihadists)
Orc-slayer?
Gandalf The Orange?
How about "Sauron the Great"?
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Or the Xemu-ver...
I like the military humor:
Massive Ordnance Air Burst = MOAB = Mother of All Bombs
Real cute.
Emphasis on the first three words:
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