[Jeremy_Reaban]

??? I was under the impression that the MOAB was delivered by a cargo plane. Surely we won't be using that until we take out their air defenses and such....

[ThePythonicCow]

As noted in my post just above, the MOAB is satellite guided, so can be dropped from high altitude. We would not have to have the low-level air superiority needed to drop the BLU-82 daisy cutter.

[Slewfoot]

The test drops were from a c130 just like a daisycutter, but the Moab was designed to fit the bombay of a b2. The holdup on dropping them from bombers is the orignal bomb racks in our big bombers are not designed to hold anything this heavy. As soon as we get a bomber modified to carry them (if we havn't already) we will be able to drop them from higher attitude. Cargo planes with their back door open arn't pressurized and can't operate a high allitudes.