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To: vannrox
Too bad the moron didn't read up on bunker busting technology after his bunker was built.....

A sled test on 26 February proved that the bomb could penetrate over 20 feet of concrete, while an earlier flight test had demonstrated the bomb's ability to penetrate more than 100 feet of earth.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/gbu-28.htm

And if a GBU-28 doesn't do it, there is Big BLU now!

Although the Direct Strike Hard Target Weapon concept was unfunded as of 1997, in early 2002 it was reported that Northrop-Grumman and Lockheed Martin were working on a 30,000-lb. earth penetrating guided conventional weapon, said to be known as "Big BLU" or "Big Blue" [which is also the nickname of the 15,000-lb surface burst BLU-82]. Big BLU will be GPS guided and feature cobalt-alloy penetrator bomb body that enables it to penetrate to depths of up to 100 feet below the surface before detonating. The bombs are so large that a bomber such as the B-2 could carry one of them. As of March 2002 reportedly three Big BLUs had been ordered by the Air Force on an urgent basis ["Inside The Ring," By Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough, Washington Times March 15, 2002 Pg. 10].
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/dshtw.htm

And there is a B61-11 in testing as we speak. A nuke that has been tested in frozen earth penetrating up to 25 feet.

The most likely candidate is a tactical micro-nuke called the B61-11, an earth-penetrating nuclear device known as the "bunker buster."

The B61-11 was designed to destroy underground military facilities such as command bunkers, ballistic missile silos and facilities for producing and storing weapons.

However, it could be used against the warren of tunnels and caves carved under the Afghan mountains that are often cited as a potential refuge for the U.S. government's prime suspect, Osama bin Laden.

According to an article in the May 1997 edition of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: "The B61-11's unique earth-penetrating characteristics and wide range of yields allow it to threaten otherwise indestructible targets from the air.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,47319,00.html

48 posted on 03/29/2003 1:56:42 PM PST by Teetop (democrats....... socialist.........whats the difference?)
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To: Teetop
I humbly yeild to your knowledge.

Looks like he did get hit on the first strike, bunker or not!
57 posted on 03/29/2003 2:09:30 PM PST by MonroeDNA (An American Black Muslim traitor, acting on his religeous beliefs, tried to take out the top brass)
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