Posted on 04/14/2017 9:56:23 AM PDT by ColdOne
Chaos erupted after the U.S. dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal on an Islamic State training camp in Afghanistan Thursday, local villagers told The Guardian.
The bomb was dropped on Achin district in Nangarhar province, the long-time home of the terrorist group in Afghanistan. ISIS has proven resilient in Afghanistan, often using Nangarhar province to launch attacks on the capital of Kabul. The U.S. said the massive bomb, nicknamed the “mother of all bombs,” was requested to destroy ISIS’s extensive tunnel network in the village.
“The earth felt like a boat in a storm,” one villager told The Guardian. He continued, “My ears were deaf for a while. My windows and doors are broken. There are cracks in the walls.” Achin’s Mayor Naweed Shinwari said “my relatives thought the end of the world had come.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
I can think of many on this planet that need to feel the same experience.
Since they don’t have the internet in North Korea, print about a million copies of this article and airdrop it all over North Korea. (translated of course)
A lot of them virgins down the are riding sidesaddle this day.
The MOAB is set to detonate at an “altitude” of six feet.
Trump has now demonstrated that our military WILL kill terrorists, and not be too terribly concerned about any upsets caused in nearby “peaceful villages”.
Now, we’ll let that sink in, with the Afghans and others.
This one detonated above ground, the other, GBU-57 a/b, is a penetrator, and bigger too...
My windows and doors are broken. There are cracks in the walls
How did he notice the before and after difference ?
My first thought was, .....hmmmm, they seem to be a little bit sharper than that Japanese bunch. It took 2 acts of God before they were convinced.
This is the one I was thinking of: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-30000-pound-bomb-that-could-be-used-against-irans-nuclear-facilities-boggles-the-mind-2015-6
Seems like they could use it to take out North Korea’s underground nuke? Maybe that’s just wishful thinking. Stealth delivery would be a problem now that they know Trump isn’t afraid of blowing things up.
Also ... with bombs 2000x more powerful than the MOAB.
What should have been written was...Greetings from President Trump. Elections have consequences. Here’s yours.
The Afghans are right. The 7th century world has come to an end.
Get ready for the 21st century. It’s going to get rough.
That's because there was no one left to convince. Hahahahahahahahahaha!
No terrorists, that is.
The Russian "FOAB".
Here's the father of all bombs: Russia's answer to the MOAB
"The so-called father of all bombs is thought to be about four times as big as the MOAB. It's a thermobaric bomb with a destruction radius of nearly 1,000 feet and a blast yield of nearly 44 tons of TNT. "
The Russian "FOAB".
Here's the father of all bombs: Russia's answer to the MOAB
"The so-called father of all bombs is thought to be about four times as big as the MOAB. It's a thermobaric bomb with a destruction radius of nearly 1,000 feet and a blast yield of nearly 44 tons of TNT. "
Kill them all and let God sort out the sheep from the goat screwers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_bomb
Wallis’ first concept was for a ten-ton bomb that would explode some 130 feet (40 m) underground. To achieve this, the bomb would have had to be dropped from 40,000 feet (12 km). The RAF had no aircraft at the time capable of carrying a ten-ton bomb load aloft, let alone lifting it to such a height. Wallis designed a six-engine aeroplane for the task, called the “Victory Bomber”, but he was not taken seriously by the military hierarchy of the day.
Wallis then took a different line in developing a means to destroy Germany’s industrial structure with attacks on its supply of hydroelectric power. After he had developed the bouncing bomb and shown its possibilities, however, RAF Bomber Command were prepared to listen to his other ideas, even though they often thought them strange. The officer classes of the RAF at that time were often trained not in science or engineering, but in the classics, Roman and Greek history and language.[citation needed] They provided enough support to let him continue his research.
Later in the war, Barnes Wallis made bombs based on the “earthquake bomb concept”, such as the 6-ton Tallboy and then the 10-ton Grand Slam, although these were never dropped from more than about 25,000 feet (7.6 km). Even from this relatively low altitude, the earthquake bomb had the ability to disrupt German industry while causing minimum civilian casualties. It was used to disable the V2 factory, bury the V3 guns, sink the battleship Tirpitz and damage the U-boats’ protective pens at St. Nazaire, as well as to attack many other targets which had been impossible to damage before. One of the most spectacular attacks was shortly after D-Day, when the Tallboy was used to prevent German tank reinforcements from moving by train. Rather than blow up the tracks — which would have been repaired in a day or so — the bombs were targeted on a tunnel near Saumur which carried the line under a mountain. Twenty-five Lancasters dropped the first Tallboys on the mountain, penetrating straight through the rock, and one of them exploded in the tunnel below. As a result, the entire rail line remained unusable until the end of the war.
After World War II, the United States developed the 43,000-pound (20,000 kg) T12 demolition bomb that was designed to create an earthquake effect.
Remind me. What is this “leading from behind” again?
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