Dorado Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 So it was just announced that the US dropped the biggest non-nuclear bomb ever made on an ISIS target in Afghanistan. MOAB, officially the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, it is also known as the Mother Of All Bombs. http://www.businessinsider.com/us-moab-mother-of-all-bombs-isis-afghanistan-2017-4 You can see one in action here. Can't head for the hills if there's no more hill... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 WOW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tall Tale Todd Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Blood makes the grass grow. God bless America and the USAF! Air Power! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 WOW, It even looks cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 WOW!!!! Awesome stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Just watched the video, watch out you little bas#@%rd in NK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Biggest one we had in Nam was the Daisy Cutter at 15,000 lbs. Dropped by the same aircraft though, the miraculous C130 Hercules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorado Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 The Daisy cutter was the largest up until the MOAB. The MOAB holds over 21,000lbs of high explosives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Be hard to stuff something that large down the tube of an 81. Guess that is why they drop them from the sky. Bet it was a really bad day for some of those guys on the receiving end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Brules Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 I am surprised that they did not FIRST drop about 50 of those penetrator-type bombs that go into the ground about 100' or so before exploding, then 20 minutes later or so, drop this MOAB air burst bomb to concuss and take out anything that the penetrators didn't kill, but flushed out.....plus anything on my he surface. The real trick would be to follow it all up with more of the same the next day and the next. Kill a year's supply of fighters, their supporting people (family, old men, wounded, clerics/propagandists, supply chain, material, equipment, supplies, whatevertheheck).......let God sort them out. Sterilize the whole GD area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Dan Dawkins Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 I dropped the big one a few minutes ago...but mine don't have a 1 mile blast radius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whiskey Business Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Talk about rocking the kasbah. Guess they won't be partying like it 's 1399 tonight. MAGA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 4 hours ago, Dirty Dan Dawkins said: I dropped the big one a few minutes ago...but mine don't have a 1 mile blast radius. Wanna bet...? Beat ya to it, TS~! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 MOAB spelled backwards is BAOM....or more correctly....an earth shattering "BA-OOOOOM!!!!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 That is one Bad Motha-"shutcher mouth"... I say we Shaft 'em again and again with these bad boys. I like Cat's idea...but I would be more inclined to make the area a sheet of glass but... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badlands Bob #61228 Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Just how did they come up with this body count of 36? Did they send in troops to count bodies after the bombing? What about the terrorists that were vaporized near the epicenter of the blast? Did they just count up the smoking sandals and divide by 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dantankerous Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 12 hours ago, Dirty Dan Dawkins said: I dropped the big one a few minutes ago...but mine don't have a 1 mile blast radius. OMG! Is THAT is why yer Dirty Dan (I was thinkin' the same thing, just couldn't not bring myself to write it.) Proud to make yore acquaintance. I got a good chuckle out of that 'un. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 A big enough kaboom to collapse tunnels and flatten buildings to a you-wouldn't-believe-it distance. Like the wise man said ... you gots to speaks da language dey unnerstands! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan Slim Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 I run waste treatment plants, so when I saw the title of this thread I was thinking something different................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Didja notice the shape of the cloud that Motha left? Bet anyone outside the blast radius that saw this might have thought it was a nuke! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Duncan Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 53 minutes ago, Trailrider #896 said: Didja notice the shape of the cloud that Motha left? Bet anyone outside the blast radius that saw this might have thought it was a nuke! nonnuke was stressed so many times I wondered why? Now I wondered if it wasn't a tactical nuke and the powers to be are lying to prevent political fallout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Duncan Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 11 hours ago, Badlands Bob #61228 said: Just how did they come up with this body count of 36? Did they send in troops to count bodies after the bombing? What about the terrorists that were vaporized near the epicenter of the blast? Did they just count up the smoking sandals and divide by 2. I'd guess the same way they did body counts in Viet Nam? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 5 minutes ago, Matthew Duncan said: nonnuke was stressed so many times I wondered why? Now I wondered if it wasn't a tactical nuke and the powers to be are lying to prevent political fallout. Aw, probably not. Most people don't pay attention, but virtually any explosion on or near the surface will also produce a mini-mushroom cloud, depending on the conditions at the surface. OTOH... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 They won the coin toss and elected to receive. Big mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 1 hour ago, Matthew Duncan said: nonnuke was stressed so many times I wondered why? Now I wondered if it wasn't a tactical nuke and the powers to be are lying to prevent political fallout. Not a nuke. Trust me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 Ask Forty about non-nuke mushroom clouds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seldom Seen #16162 Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 On 4/14/2017 at 8:17 AM, Badlands Bob #61228 said: Just how did they come up with this body count of 36? Did they send in troops to count bodies after the bombing? What about the terrorists that were vaporized near the epicenter of the blast? Did they just count up the smoking sandals and divide by 2. Most likely they had it under surveillance with a drone. Just counted the sheep going into the pen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seldom Seen #16162 Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 Trumps new foreign policy... Tuco for Secretary of State. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 They have upped the body count to 92. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 3 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: They have upped the body count to 92. I'm curious as well. Thermal imaging before and after? Can they differentiate between people and goats? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 Looks like North Korea wanted to play, but their program blew up on the launch pad. Probably not a lot of happy faces in North Korea tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whiskey Business Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 38 minutes ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said: I'm curious as well. Thermal imaging before and after? Can they differentiate between people and goats? The goats are the ones wearing burkas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 AHH! Merci! Maintenant J'ais Compres! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 4 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said: I'm curious as well. Thermal imaging before and after? Can they differentiate between people and goats? They would keep the goats out of any danger zones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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