Glad to see the Middle East is picking up this story...
1 posted on
03/11/2003 5:44:26 PM PST by
11th_VA
To: 11th_VA
Need explosive output. 1/2 kilotons? Want to compare to small nuclear device.
To: 11th_VA
A C-131 Samaritan aircraft dropped the bomb... Ah, the press, the press!
3 posted on
03/11/2003 5:51:24 PM PST by
Grut
To: 11th_VA
Well, they got some of it. Here's a C-131 Samaritan:
![](http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/images/c-131-DN-SC-98-04186.jpg)
The plane that dropped the MOAB was a C-130 Hercules.
4 posted on
03/11/2003 5:52:25 PM PST by
Tennessee_Bob
(Dieses sieht wie ein Job nach Dringlichkeitshosen aus!)
To: 11th_VA
What surprises me is that there is a barren area in the FL panhandle that would be good for this demonstration. I would think this would be done out West somewhere.
5 posted on
03/11/2003 5:54:26 PM PST by
keithtoo
To: 11th_VA
To: 11th_VA
Remember that line in Crocodile Dundee... You call that a knife?
You call that a Knife? And Dundee pulls out his knife. THIS is a Knife!
You call that a bomb? This is a bomb! The B83 is 1.14 million times more energetic!
![](http://nuketesting.enviroweb.org/hew/Usa/Weapons/B83color1.jpg)
B83 Characteristics
Available Yields |
Low Kiloton Range/ 1200 Kilotons |
Weight |
2408 lb |
Length |
12 ft |
Body Diameter |
18 in |
Number In Service |
650 |
The B83 (Mk-83) Bomb
Take note Iraq!
To: 11th_VA
I knew an AF Senior Master SGT who had a video of a daisy cutter being pushed out the back of a C-130. I watched the bomb float to earth, saw the explosion, and a couple seconds later the whole plane was shaking. Very Cool.
13 posted on
03/11/2003 6:06:33 PM PST by
Gamecock
(You take your Germany, France and , roll them all together and it wouldn't give us room to park)
To: 11th_VA
I just saw a vide of this thing on the MSNBC web site. That is one big*ss bomb!!!
18 posted on
03/11/2003 6:30:46 PM PST by
SuziQ
To: 11th_VA
![](http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2003110964,00.jpg)
Ain't she a beaut!!
To: 11th_VA
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.
Can you imagine this thing being dropped from 40,000 feet in a hardened case, maybe even with a thruster-assist to increase speed? It might even be able to shake up Saddam down in his 300-ft.-deep bunker.
The fact that this 21,000 bomb is carrying fully 18,000 lbs of explosive shows us how far technolog has come compared to the Grand Slam of WWII.
To: 11th_VA
I only have one gripe with the military detonating the MOAB bomb at Eglin AFB today.
If we really wanted to make a statement to Saddam and the world, and especially to those jerks at the UN, we should have made the demonstration by dropping the bomb in the middle of the Champs Elysee.
After all, Pres Bush did say,
"You are either with us or you are with the Terrorists"
--and we certainly know whose side those worthless French frogs are on now, don't we???!!! :-/
39 posted on
03/11/2003 7:47:40 PM PST by
ThomWilkerson
(Remember, for EVERY anti-war protester, SADDAM has murdered an equal number of Iraqis.)
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!!!!!!!!
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