Isn’t a daisy cutter 5000 lbs? and this is 6 times greater?
whoa.
lol!
Let's have a little bit of economy here! (I oppose government waste!)
Look, in a confined space, you don't get much more bang for your buck from sizing up your gross bang level, since you get so much unpleasantness from the initial, entry-level sort of bang, like a 750-pound bomb. One of those going off in an Iranian supersecret weapons lab would pretty well spoil everyone's day already.
So what happens if you take a garden-variety daisy-cutter, suitably accessorized to play an authentic period Jimi Hendrix guitar solo on the way down, screw several segments of a space-shuttle SRB onto its ass end programmed to ignite during descent, and see what that'll penetrate, break, and generally spoil? Bet it wouldn't leave much to MOP up.
The BLU-82 Daisy Cutter is 15,000lbs if I remember correctly. The explosives account for 12,600lbs.
It’s replacement is the GBU-43 MOAB. That’s 22,000lbs with 18,000 of it being explosives. Unlike the unguided Daisy Cutter, the MOAB is GPS guided.
The MOP (GBU-57) is 30,000lbs with a 6,000lb warhead. The previous large bunker buster was the GBU-28 which was about 5,000lbs with a 600lb warhead.
“Isn’t a daisy cutter 5000 lbs? and this is 6 times greater?”
The BLU-82 Commando Vault AKA “Daisy Cutter” is an unguided 15,000 pound bomb dropped from the back of a MC-130.