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Originally posted by mattvanstone
Keep something in mind. The US did drop Daisy Cutters during the Gulf War.
This excerpt is from Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces by Tom Clancy and General Carl Stiner (Ret.).
"The first explosions were so massive (the story goes) that a British commando operating in Iraq more than 100 miles away grabbed his radio. "The Blokes just nuked Kuwait!" he is said to have told his commander.
Whether the story is apocryphal or not, the bombs devastated the minefields. They also killed anyone within 4,000 yards (2.278 miles) who weren't in a protected position. Eleven were dropped during the conflict.
The Blues were alos a potent psychological weapon. When an Iraqi unit was told they were due for a BLU-82 bombing, most of it's men came across the lines and surrendered."
The MOAB is 40% more powerful than the BLU-82.
I'll be over in the corner with my glamorous/romanticized version of war if anyone needs me.
Uhm..... the bomb doesnt use uranium. just lots of highly explosive stuff.Quote:
Originally posted by YellerDog
Hee hee... thousands of rounds of depleted uranium raining from the skies, then-- BOOM! Ground armor gone.
(just saw a shot of the S.Bomb on NBC News... looks like a booster rocket!)
he meant the A-10 Warthog's cannon fires depleted uranium rounds.
*Yawn* This is much ado about nothing.
The new bomb is about one-third more powerful than the so-called Daisy Cutter, previously the biggest conventional bomb in the U.S. arsenal, which can level a half-kilometre-wide circle and was originally used to clear helicopter landing areas in the Vietnamese jungle. Daisy Cutters were brought back into service as a shock weapon against Taliban troops during the war in Afghanistan.
Despite the new bomb's size, it is no bigger than the largest conventional Grand Slam bombs that modified Lancaster bombers dropped during the Second World War, and packs only a fraction of the blast of even a small nuclear warhead.
So, it's 1/3 more powerful than 30+ year old technology last used when Mick Jagger was young. I'm not sure how to read the second paragraph. It's as powerful as the Grand Slams, or simply the same physical size?
"This is not small," U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday. Asked whether the Pentagon might release videotape of the MOAB's first test to the Arab-language television broadcaster Al-Jazeera, Mr. Rumsfeld demurred. "That would be sabre-rattling," he said.
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Sabre-rattling...?
they fire nuclear-bullets? uh... cool!Quote:
Originally posted by Doug Branches
he meant the A-10 Warthog's cannon fires depleted uranium rounds.
Fun Fact: Depleted Uranium bullets are also used on Aircraft Carriers and larger battleships as a missle defence. They just fire (or lob, really) millions of rounds into the air and anything in the cardinal dirrection is shredded completely... they have a handy trait of burning through metal like so much butter.
hence the a-10 being known as a "tankbuster"
I saw the video of this so called 'super bomb' and it did't look so super... beside, if it was originally intended to clear brush how powerful would they have made them?
Brush tends to be more stubborn to move than humann flesh.