The mother of all bombs

The Sun (U.K.) ^ | 03/12/03 | BRIAN FLYNN

[Pokey78]

[Diogenesis]

THIS JUST IN:
Click here for the video of the test of the
Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb on March 11, 2003.

[supercat]

Oops... I mean... we should make our best effort to avoid collateral damage with this FRIGGIN COOL BOMB!!!

If morale among Saddam's troops is as poor as it appears, these may achieve some pretty major victories with minimal collateral damage. Drop one of these ten miles outside a town. The next day nine miles. The next day eight miles. I think a lot of people would suddenly work very hard to surrender.

[Argus]

Drop it on his oilfields first thing. Let's see what his scorched-earth policy looks like then.

[Husker24]

It looks like a school bus filled with c-4.

[dennisw]

Looks like a Jules Verne (HG Wells?) airship to the moon in my old Classics Illustrated Comic

[Eric in the Ozarks]

A hell of a punch.

[j_k_l]

It looks like Rosie O'Donnell in a Spedo bloated from a Taco Bell binge!

[j_k_l]

That's only because the orange is slimming.

[noutopia]

That thought just about made me lose my dinner.

[Enemy Of The State]

I thought fatman and little boy were the "Mother of all bombs"?

[Mike Darancette]

Drop it on his oilfields first thing.

Don't laugh, this device could suck the Oxygen out of an oilfield fire.

[F.J. Mitchell]

The term "collateral damage", should define non-combatants inadvertently killed or wounded. Judging from the news films of armed iraqi civilians parading with weapons,and ready to challenge our Military, there is no collateral to damage in Iraq.

[solzhenitsyn]

RJayneJ, I nominate j_k_l's analysis of the MOAB in replies 11 and 12 above as a future Quote of the Day.

[yarddog]

I was about 30 miles away when it went off. I wasn't expecting it but didn't hear or feel anything.

It seems to me that since it is detonated above ground that it would not send quite as big shock waves as it would if on or in the ground, of course I don't really know.

[noutopia]

Depends on which way the wind was blowing.