Posted on 04/13/2017 10:00:50 AM PDT by johnk
U.S. forces have dropped what is known as the "mother of all bombs" in Afghanistan. The device is the largest non-nuclear device in the Air Force arsenal, Fox News' Jennifer Griffin reported. It was dropped in Nangarhar Province, an eastern area near the Pakistan border. It's the first time the 21,000-pound ordnance has been used in combat, said Griffin. The device, developed in 2003 by the U.S. Air Force, is called the M.O.A.B, short for Massive Ordnance Air Blast. It's often referred to as the "mother of all bombs." Watch the report above.
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Oh, wait — I know the punchline:
“What’s this ‘We’ shit, white man?”
Ya know what's even more exciting? A one mile blast radius means a TWO MILE diameter from ground zero.
Damn that's a big bomb....
Yes; it is; but then...
...just what ISN'T?
And over 6 1/4 miles around; too!
they had to fly do drop the older Daisy Cutter which descended by parachute.
Was trying to remember the foggy days of Vietnam. They dropped Daisy Cutters on Hanoi? Without looking I hink they were 12,000 lbs and dropped with a parachute? Gads memory needs an upgrade. No not a vet just remember the stories and such
This MOAB bomb was estimated to carry 21,600 lbs of TNT. LINK
That is 10.53 tons of TNT. (1 ton = 2000 pounds)
Definition of a kiloton: LINK
The Hiroshima bomb was pegged at 15 thousand tons of TNT and the Nagasaki bomb was pegged at 21 thousand tons of TNT. LINK
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