[11th_VA]

Glad to see the Middle East is picking up this story...

[BushCountry]

Need explosive output. 1/2 kilotons? Want to compare to small nuclear device.

[Grut]

A C-131 “Samaritan” aircraft dropped the bomb...

Ah, the press, the press!

[Tennessee_Bob]

Well, they got some of it. Here's a C-131 Samaritan:

The plane that dropped the MOAB was a C-130 Hercules.

[keithtoo]

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.

[Diogenesis]

Test of a Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb on March 11, 2003.

[Varmint Al]

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!

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!

[Gamecock]

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.

[SuziQ]

I just saw a vide of this thing on the MSNBC web site. That is one big*ss bomb!!!

[conservativecorner]

Ain't she a beaut!!

[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 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.

[ThomWilkerson]

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???!!! :-/

[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!!!!!!!!