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Interesting, thanks. What I don't know about ordinance could fill a book.

You're welcome. Used to do munitions for a living. In the Air Force, our motto was "without us, it would just be another airline." I used to add "with ugly stewardesses."

For those disappointed in the low quality of the Pentagon release of this tape, cheer up. I'm sure that wasn't the only camera around and that isn't the final release. Right now, the eggheads and psy ops people are pouring over and editing tons of tape of the test. The idea is not to show any information that a potential enemy could use to defend against the bomb, and the best shots for effect. I'm sure we'll see some great footage in the morning.

Now you just know that some bored zero pilotting a C-130 over in the sand box just got word of the detonation and leaned over to his co-pilot and whispered, "Hey, let's have us some fun". They then pushed the C-130 on over and did a dry run on an Iraqi position.

April fools!!! while several squads of Iraqi soldiers nearly stampede themselves to death while trying to unass the position in time. Now every time a C-130 is spotted the enemy will be taking a short breath and hoping, no praying, it's not headed their way.

Let's roll!!