[11B3]

I hadn't seen this posted yet. So much for ol' Daisy - but this one sounds like it is even more effective. If things turn into combat in cities for Baghdad, this one would change their minds in a real hurry.

[Utah Girl]

The citizens of Moab, Utah are having a fit over the AF naming a bomb after their fair city.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[NY.SS-Bar9]

Uh... You forgot the mandatory pictures.

[DoctorMichael]

Just a FYI: The movie OUTBREAK (Dustin Hoffman, 1995) has two separate Daisy Cutter drops in it (computer generated, but gives you an idea on the scope of the damage they can cause).

[Thinkin' Gal]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MOAB is a highly destructive and terrifying weapon.

Moab = "of his father"

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[Thinkin' Gal]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MOAB is a highly destructive and terrifying weapon.

Moab = "of his father"

?

[freepersup]

Moab

Mother
Of
All
Bombs

[null and void]

Related thread here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/852653/posts

‘Massive Ordnance Air Burst’ Bomb Set to Go if War Begins (Improved Daisy Cutter)

Best line: MOAB= Mother Of All Bombs

[HighWheeler]

I quit on the first line. They are wrong on the Daisy cutter being a FAS (or FAE), it is not.

per

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/dumb/blu-82.htm

"Frequent press reports to the contrary, the Daisy Cutter is not a fuel-air explosive (FAE). It is a conventional explosive incorporating both agent and oxidizer. In contrast, an FAE consists only of agent and a dispersing mechanism, and takes its oxidizer from the oxygen in the air. FAEs generally run between 500 and 2000 pounds; it would be difficult to make an FAE the size of Daisy Cutter because the correct uniform mixture of agent with ambient air would be difficult to maintain if the agent were so widely dispersed. Thus, the conventional explosive technique of Daisy Cutter is more reliable than that of an FAE, particularly if there is significant wind or thermal gradient."

[Centurion2000]

Now we just need to convert a few 747's that can carry about TEN of the suckers at a time and do a big line drop over troops and tanks.

[jwh_Denver]

If things turn into combat in cities for Baghdad, this one would change their minds in a real hurry.

It won't happen in Baghdad. I read yesterday the planes will have real time video cameras on board to show that they are hitting military targets and not civilians. If they are used it will be against strictly military targets and possibly as "scare the s**t" out of the Iraqi troops. Which going by Persian Gulf war won't take much. Let's see how many surrender to drones.

[polemikos]

Images of the New MOAB Weapon from: StrategyPage.com

[thegreatbeast]

This and the EMP weapons and other things should be used heavily and right away to dissuade Saddam from thinking that we are going to play by the Queensbury Rules. Lately I have been fearful that Hussein has decided to drink the hemlock and adhere to a scorched earth policy. It is important that we create new nightmare imagery for the bastard. Make a god-fearing man out of him as it were.
We are really hanging out there now. We have to be breathtakingly scary. Anything less will invite a world (literally) of hurt.

[Semper Paratus]

I'll pay good money for the video of one them hitting a "Presidential Palace".

[Squantos]

Way to many things wrong in this text from StrategyPage.com 11B3. Fuel Air Explosive is FAE not FAS. Nor was the BLU 82 Daisy Cutter a FAE or FAS bomb. It is a 15000 pound bomb filled with a slurry not unlike commercial ANFO.

The pictures are nice but what else have these smart guys screwed up in the report about this new and improved MOAB ? Archy or Patton..... you have anything on this new wizbang thang ?

Stay Safe

[Brian Allen]

<< After the 1991 Gulf War, the United States started to get rid of it's various FAS weapons. >>

And -- thanks to Peking's "Our 'man' in Washington," KKKomelade KKKri'toon, most of our other means of defense, too!