MOAB U.S military Air Strike (Achin,Afghanistan) (4-13-2017) Video of the Blast.

youtube ^ | 4/14/17 | GAURAV NARWAL

[Rebelbase]

Drone Video of the detonation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=E8n3Mwo94zI

[xone]

MOAB delivery requires air defenses to be neutralized

Just suppressed. IOW one well planned strike.

[dragnet2]

Looking really close near the bottom of the image, landslides can be seen.

[dragnet2]

Looking really close near the bottom of the image, landslides can be seen.

[Tucker39]

Maybe. But it’s just as likely that every thread posted on FR is, in its own way, a test of each reader’s gullibility. That’s the other side of the coin. Happy Easter.

[Magnum44]

That will leave a mark.

That will leave a carbon footprint! lol

[dp0622]

ROFL

Ah, i dont think we spent 16 million to kill 36 guys.

We got a LOT of free advertising :)

[Pollster1]

I suspect the blast front traveled at the speed of sound.

To get a little technical, because this is FR and you made a good guess, you're close. The shock wave (thickness 0.0001 inches or less) travels at what can reasonably be treated as a weighted average of the speeds that sound would travel in the media on either side of it, accounting for what are initially very different densities and temperatures. For "short" distances from the blast, the shock wave is supersonic relative to the speed of sound in normal air. At the radius where the wave goes subsonic, the nature of the sound changes, not that anyone near the MOAB would notice. At long distances, the blast wave slows down a lot before the movement reverses direction as the return wave fills in the partial vacuum left by momentum and over-expansion.

[Candor7]

Allahwahoo MOABar !

[Leep]

It must have been Allah’s will.

[SaraJohnson]

Obama says this will make Isis hate us.

[Quickgun]

I have a trolling motor on my boat that will take you to within 5 feet of a gps marked location. You can also “aim” it at a specific location on the water or shoreline and it will take you there, and adjust for wind drift as you travel. And that’s pretty low-tech compared to what the military has. A gps guided bomb with fins controlled by the gps unit could be dropped VERY close to it’s intended target.

[Delta 21]

Yep. She blowed up REAL GOOD.

[BeauBo]

Right near the mouth of the historic Khyber Pass, just off the road from Jalalabad to Peshawar. You could hike over the mountains into Pakistan in just a few hours.

The Khyber Pass, where the mountain people meet the plains.

[Hulka]

It is a perpetrator weapon, not air burst.

Media gets it wrong—again.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Perpetrator? You mean penetrator?

[PA Engineer]

LOL. So true.

[RayChuang88]

It's essentially detonating the old British Grand Slam bomb at surface level. I believe we have already built the components of the even more sophisticated GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator and could assemble such a bomb quickly to use against Kim Jong-un's underground bunkers. (Remember, underground bunkers are designed to withstand a near miss. With the GBU-57A/B, we talking a bomb with a CEP measured under 50 feet--and a deep earth penetrator with that accuracy will collapse most deep bunkers.)

[rxsid]

"I bet the Nork’s pissed in their pants when they saw that mushroom cloud in Afghanistan.

NK is full of cave complexes and the goal was probably to test the effectiveness of the bomb."

Yup!

Similar to the Syria strike, this one was intended to send a message as well as gather data on such hits.

[BwanaNdege]

How do you get a yacht from NK to Chicago?

Mississippi River to Chicago River,

Or St Lawrence River through Great Lakes to Lake Michigan.

(I'd put it on a freighter to get from NK to the Gulf of Mexico or St Lawrence)

[NFHale]

RE “...BOOM...”

I think you need to use a bigger font for that word...

Like maybe 56 point Arial or Helvetica.