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Mother of all bombs
Times of Oman ^
| 11 March '03
| Reuters
Posted on 03/11/2003 5:44:26 PM PST by 11th_VA
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To: Jennifer in Florida
MOAB uses Tritonol; a more powerful and stable explosive than the ammonium nitrate slurry in BLU-82, requiring little pre-prep before being used. It's not a fuel-air munition.
To: BushMeister
I think that 2 versions of the MOAB are being produced: one for an airburst over troops/assets, and a penetrator version. Maybe the penetrator will be called MOAP for Massive Ordnance Attack PenetratorThe Mother of All Penetrators?
To: 11th_VA
I hereby nickname this great weapon "MOABY DICK!"
Now GWB (Captain Ahab to the idiot liberals) has a special harpoon to stick up Saddam's ass.
THAR SHE BLOWS!!!!!!!!
To: Jennifer in Florida
I remember reading about captured Viet Cong who got a little too close to a daisycutter. They bled from the ears and had bruised eyeballs from the concussion. I don't know how close "too close" is, but evidently they lived to talk about it.
To: Varmint Al
This is a bomb!
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03/11/2003 9:29:30 PM PST
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cynwoody
To: BushCountry
Acoording to an article I found online, 704 lbs. of Tritonal is equivalent to 830 lbs. of TNT, as far as blasting power goes:
The first test used 704 pounds of Tritonal, which is equivalent to 830 pounds of TNT, or roughly 2,200 pounds of a properly prepared ammonium nitrate/fuel oil (ANFO) mixture.
The test was conducted in relation to the investigation into the OKC bombing:
OKC
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