MOAB - Son of Daisy Cutter

StrategyPage.com ^ | 27 Feb 03 | StrategyPage.com

[Redleg Duke]

"I wish I could find some photos, but so far no luck."

Don't feel bad...the Air Force is probably still looking for the camera that took the photos, anyway!

[gulfcoast6]

Ummm, send one to 'SayDamn' and tell him it a rocket and he can shoot it off to hit Israel, that will do that bunch of SayDamns in orbit.

[John123]

MOAB doesn’t need a parachute, like the Daisy Cutter, but uses a GPS (like JDAM) and an aerodynamic body to detonate the bomb at a precise area. Thus the MOAB can be dropped from a higher altitude (like outside the range of machine-guns and rifles). Like the Daisy Cutter, MOAB is shoved out the back of a cargo aircraft (usually a C-130, but since the MOAB uses GPS and higher altitude drops, the C-17 can probably be used as well.)

How does GPS and aerodynamic body make this bomb more precise?

[Constitutional_Republican]

"How does GPS and aerodynamic body make this bomb more precise?"

Instead of just falling at he mercy of the wind variations and such, the GPS information is used to controls fins that guide the bomb to a more precise target point.