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U.S. Uses Huge Bomb Against Taliban Forces
Associated Press ^
| November 5, 2001
| staff
Posted on 11/05/2001 5:47:46 PM PST by Lady In Blue
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To: Lady In Blue
I like that big bomb. Keep 'em flying till the bad guys aren't there anymore.
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posted on
11/05/2001 7:15:23 PM PST
by
SEA
To: Boston Capitalist
I am presuming they are "unguided". What kind of accuracy can they get from 30,000 feet? Pushed out the back of a cargo plane at fairly low altitude....
Also explains why they wern't used before...as need to make shure all ground to air is adequately supressed.
Those cargo planes are slow flying and vunerable
Hopefully the fuel air bombs will be demonstrated next...
To: cynwoody
Excellent link, cynwoody! Thanks!
To: Kalashnikov_68
Re: Post 43
Does it come in any other colors?
124
posted on
11/05/2001 7:23:45 PM PST
by
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To: HoustonCurmudgeon
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125
posted on
11/05/2001 7:23:51 PM PST
by
hoot2
To: Lady In Blue
The BLU-82 uses about six times the amount of ammonium nitrate explosive that Timothy McVeigh used This interesting, since the explosive weight of the BLU-82 is about 13,000 pounds. Some of that is aluminum powder, but ignoring that (and I suspect that's a large amount being ignored) you get 2,167 pounds of ammonium nitrate for Timmy to have used. I thought the latter numbers for his bomb were in the 7000 pound range?
Notice how AP can't resist bringing in the OKC bombing even though there is no apparent reason to do so, in this article that is.
126
posted on
11/05/2001 7:25:14 PM PST
by
El Gato
To: FreeReign
U.S. Uses Huge Bomb Against Taliban Forces
a 62 Caddy de Ville.
pull a mcnamara, drop edsel's on em....
talkin' about a bomb
127
posted on
11/05/2001 7:26:11 PM PST
by
hoot2
To: Hillary 666
How would you like to see that monstrosity on a parachute coming at you? Wow!!
Ah, no one's survived to pass that info on.:^|
128
posted on
11/05/2001 7:26:31 PM PST
by
Kermit
To: GuillermoX
"Yeah, but do the Muslims across the world approve??"
Good thinking. It's important to be PC on these things. I hope we didn't offend the people who were dancing in the streets on the night of 9/11. They have feelings too, you know.
129
posted on
11/05/2001 7:27:33 PM PST
by
Paulie
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To: sonofliberty2
As I advocated and predicted, the US has used its first vacuum bomb in Afghanistan. This bomb has the equivalent explosive power to .03KT--not quite micronuke range, but still an awesome weapon well suited for usage against the Taleban cave-dwellers.
To: Lady In Blue
The shock wave goes into the cave and kills all inside.
To: oyez
I wonder if iron oxide added the the ammonium nitrate-aluminum mix would give it a thermite effect. I was thinking of the same thing, and it may already have some iron in the mixture, but the iron acts only as a catalyst.
The propellant mixture in solid rocket fuel such as used on the Shuttle SRB motor consists of an ammonium perchlorate (oxidizer, 69.6 percent by weight), aluminum (fuel, 16 percent), iron oxide (a catalyst, 0.4 percent), a polymer (a binder that holds the mixture together, 12.04 percent), and an epoxy curing agent (1.96 percent), which is extremely flammable.
In fact the Hindenburg burned so strongly because the skin was a mixture or iron oxide and a heavy dose of aluminum powder, not because of the hydrogen.
This bomb is effectively solid rocket propellant allowed to ignite all at once.
To: Lady In Blue
Good news to me and a great bargain at only $27,000 per. I heard a radio report to day that said they're dropped with a parachute to slow it's descent enough to allow the plane dropping it to get the hell out of the way. A couple of days of these dropped on the Taliban front lines and there won't be any Taliban front lines!
134
posted on
11/05/2001 7:38:39 PM PST
by
pgkdan
To: oyez
You know, burn a hole half way to China. Wrong direction, if one is starting from Afgoneistan, China is just over the moutains to the east. Have to burn nearly horizontally to come out in China. Go straight down and you'd come out somewhere south and west of Easter Island in the South Pacific.
135
posted on
11/05/2001 7:39:51 PM PST
by
El Gato
To: Lady In Blue
To: BobinIL
Just dress them and make bombs out of the dummies and parachute them all over the place. Let them know in advance so they can get ready and then......kaboom!
137
posted on
11/05/2001 7:41:42 PM PST
by
TheLion
To: Lady In Blue
The bombs cost about $27,000 each. They are dropped from a C-130 cargo plane flying at least 6,000 feet off the ground, to avoid the bomb's massive shock wave. Each is more than 17 feet long and 5 feet in diameter - about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle but far heavier.Indeed that sounds like the main course--but a squadron of A-10 Warthogs might serve up some pretty hot side dishes to the jihaders in the mountains and valleys once we lock up those airfields in Tajikistan.
138
posted on
11/05/2001 7:42:31 PM PST
by
henbane
To: Kermit
Ah, no one's survived to pass that info on.:^| I'll buy that. Better have your life insurance paid up!
To: El Gato
I was just being literal. I don't really care where the other end of the hole winds up, I'd just like to see them try it.
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posted on
11/05/2001 7:46:05 PM PST
by
oyez
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