Mother of all bombs

Times of Oman ^ | 11 March '03 | Reuters

[CarryaBigStick]

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.

[CarryaBigStick]

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 Penetrator

The Mother of All Penetrators?

[Husker8877]

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!!!!!!!!

[capitan_refugio]

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.

[cynwoody]

This is a bomb!

[BushMeister]

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