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Bunker-busting: Smart concrete (Iran)
The Economist, UK ^ | Mar 3rd 2012

Posted on 03/03/2012 7:17:18 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki

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1 posted on 03/03/2012 7:17:28 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Let’s find out if their concrete is tougher than our bombs, shall we?


2 posted on 03/03/2012 7:22:17 AM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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Are their mosques and their Republican Guard barracks made of this concrete?


3 posted on 03/03/2012 7:27:14 AM PST by steve8714 (Yoda's speech to Luke; copied from Jack Webb in "The D.I.")
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To: sukhoi-30mki

A small nuclear device will guarantee they won’t have access to their weapon (whether you bust it or not).


4 posted on 03/03/2012 7:27:38 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

The difference between a bunker and a tomb is the exit.


5 posted on 03/03/2012 7:28:08 AM PST by hiho hiho
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Maybe Leon Panetta needs to dust off some of the tapes in the CSPAN archive. I distinctly remember the G.W. Bush administration requesting funding for the development of specialized, very low yield nuclear weapons for exactly this purpose. And Barbara Boxer and the usual suspects blocked it.


6 posted on 03/03/2012 7:28:58 AM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: sukhoi-30mki

The concrete used for bank vaults won’t slump when it’s wet. It’s almost like cookie dough.


7 posted on 03/03/2012 7:33:56 AM PST by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: sukhoi-30mki
Why does anyone take this bunch of bullshit seriously....

To date they haven't proved any of their claims on anything...The only thing keeping them from becoming a glass domed parking lot is Russia, China and Obama.


8 posted on 03/03/2012 7:35:01 AM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: sukhoi-30mki
even if true, their refineries and electrical generating plants surely aren't...

make them live in the dark for the next five or ten years till they get their minds right

9 posted on 03/03/2012 7:36:08 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: OrioleFan

Bingo...and the resulting “small” nuke detonation just proves that the Iranians were close to developing a bomb...


10 posted on 03/03/2012 7:36:31 AM PST by ken5050 (The ONLY reason to support Mitt: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir will appear at the WH each Christmas)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken
Read and follow my tag line,

I don't care what kind of concrete the iranians use, it will just make a better version of glass.

Get our troops out of Afghanistan, apply the same measure to them, and Pooookeeeestan and then begin discussions with the Saudis about them closing their world wide madrassas, the Russians and the Chinese about them aiding any more terrorists and the mexicans about closing the border.

Before any country will negotiate with you, they must know that you mean what you say.

I forgot north korea, just tell them to give up their nukes, or die.

11 posted on 03/03/2012 7:39:49 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorists savages.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki
Use two bombs. One to weaken the structure and another to finish the job.
We have enough precision to land them both in the same place.

12 posted on 03/03/2012 7:43:38 AM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Tehran, Qom and Tabriz (being the Assahollah Khomeini’s home town, can’t leave it out) would make the perfect nuclear trifecta on those little Persian pricks.

Unfortunately we first have to upgrade from the little arrogant muslim-lovin’ Kenyan prick currently stinkin’ up the White House.


13 posted on 03/03/2012 8:10:08 AM PST by mkjessup (Romney is to conservatism what e.coli is to an all-you-can-eat salad bar. NO ROMNEY!!!)
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To: BitWielder1

One suggestion has been to drop two bombs a few seconds apart.

The first penetrates and explodes, and the second comes down through the rubble while the rubble is still in the air, and starts penetrating from where the first exploded.


14 posted on 03/03/2012 8:15:26 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: hiho hiho

Well said.


15 posted on 03/03/2012 8:24:00 AM PST by Oldexpat
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To: darkwing104

I remember all the alarming ‘news’ stories during Tora Bora about the advanced tunnels and bunkers that Bin Laden’s construction expertise had enabled his flying monkeys to build in those mountains...turned out to be holes in the ground. Maybe they do have a concrete a bit tougher than that generally used to construct their usual projects (mosques, prisons and low-income apartment blocks)...whether our military planners have accounted for its possible use is something the Iranians do not know.


16 posted on 03/03/2012 8:24:16 AM PST by dogcaller
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To: darkwing104

I remember all the alarming ‘news’ stories during Tora Bora about the advanced tunnels and bunkers that Bin Laden’s construction expertise had enabled his flying monkeys to build in those mountains...turned out to be holes in the ground. Maybe they do have a concrete a bit tougher than that generally used to construct their usual projects (mosques, prisons and low-income apartment blocks)...whether our military planners have accounted for its possible use is something the Iranians do not know.


17 posted on 03/03/2012 8:24:22 AM PST by dogcaller
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To: sukhoi-30mki
Does anyone seriously think the muslim sympathizer in the White House would initiate a strike of any kind against any target at all in Iran?

The ugly truth is that he would be more likely to provide US air support for an Iranian attack on Israel.

Obama described the muslim call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”


18 posted on 03/03/2012 8:32:15 AM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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19 posted on 03/03/2012 8:48:10 AM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Yeah, as if this is going to be anything but a moot point. Thanks sukhoi-30mki.


20 posted on 03/03/2012 8:48:54 AM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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