Boilermaker Rick wrote:
WaitingforRuffcorn wrote:
How does it compare to a nuclear bomb in terms of destruction?
If a nuclear bomb is 2005 then this bomb is 2016.
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| Author: | ChiefWampum [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 12:15 pm ] |
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U.S. just dropped 11 ton bomb in Eastern Afghanistan, targeting cave complex. Largest non-nuclear bomb dropped in combat. |
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| Author: | Chet Coppock's Fur Coat [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 12:17 pm ] |
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Coincidence that it's on the big North Korean party day? |
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| Author: | denisdman [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 12:20 pm ] |
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I hope they release before, during and after pictures. That must have been a thing. |
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| Author: | badrogue17 [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 12:22 pm ] |
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ChiefWampum wrote: U.S. just dropped 11 ton bomb in Eastern Afghanistan, targeting cave complex. Largest non-nuclear bomb dropped in combat. #ThatsAmerica |
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| Author: | Regular Reader [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 12:24 pm ] |
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So Captain Tiny Hands approved the biggest bomb ever to be dropped on a third world hovel? Shocking. When the 24 hour media frenzy dies down, this will probably end up being as impotent as the dinner approved raids in Yemen or Syria or God forbid as big a disaster as the residential bombing of Mosul. |
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| Author: | WaitingforRuffcorn [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 12:26 pm ] |
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How does it compare to a nuclear bomb in terms of destruction? |
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| Author: | Brick [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 12:27 pm ] |
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WaitingforRuffcorn wrote: How does it compare to a nuclear bomb in terms of destruction? If a nuclear bomb is 2005 then this bomb is 2016.
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| Author: | Regular Reader [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 12:30 pm ] |
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Boilermaker Rick wrote: WaitingforRuffcorn wrote: How does it compare to a nuclear bomb in terms of destruction? If a nuclear bomb is 2005 then this bomb is 2016.
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| Author: | Minooka Meatball [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 12:31 pm ] |
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Regular Reader wrote: Boilermaker Rick wrote: WaitingforRuffcorn wrote: How does it compare to a nuclear bomb in terms of destruction? If a nuclear bomb is 2005 then this bomb is 2016.
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| Author: | sjboyd0137 [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 12:33 pm ] |
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How does this get us any closer to a championship? |
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| Author: | badrogue17 [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 12:40 pm ] |
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Minooka Meatball wrote: Regular Reader wrote: Boilermaker Rick wrote: WaitingforRuffcorn wrote: How does it compare to a nuclear bomb in terms of destruction? If a nuclear bomb is 2005 then this bomb is 2016. That's well played
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| Author: | Don Tiny [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 12:42 pm ] |
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Test footage, not from today, from when the History/Hitler channel wasn't dogshit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9H50tHiHjs BOMB RADIUS DAMAGE Up to 1,000 yards: Obliterates everything. Up to 1 mile: Knocks people, tents, light buildings, cars and jeeps over within 1-mile radius. Up to 1.7 miles: shock wave kills people, causes severe damage to buildings, equipment, blows trucks, tanks off road. Up to 2 miles: causes deafness. Up to 5 miles: shakes ground, breaks windows. Up to 30 miles: 10,000 foot high mushroom cloud visible. To Reader's point about the lovely accommodations of the receiving nation, I have significant doubts that the before/after pictures will be particularly inneresting ... it's not like it's being dropped on some modern metropolis. Seriously though ... these displays of power ... who are they actually supposed to impress? If you want, Spicer's doing a presser at present ... https://youtu.be/CBEXro_A-EI 
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| Author: | jimmypasta [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 12:49 pm ] |
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| Author: | RFDC [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 12:51 pm ] |
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This is what happens when larry gets mad. |
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| Author: | FrankDrebin [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 1:13 pm ] |
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ChiefWampum wrote: U.S. just dropped 11 ton bomb in Eastern Afghanistan, targeting cave complex. Largest non-nuclear bomb dropped in combat. Love it. Accomplishes the mission while preventing American soldiers from having to inspect/clear the caves, which would have cost lives. Too bad we didn't have these during the early years of the Afghan campaign. |
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| Author: | Don Tiny [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 1:18 pm ] |
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Thank Christ we didn't put that warmongering Hillary in office. |
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| Author: | Bagels [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 1:19 pm ] |
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Don Tiny wrote: Test footage, not from today, from when the History/Hitler channel wasn't dogshit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9H50tHiHjs BOMB RADIUS DAMAGE Up to 1,000 yards: Obliterates everything. Up to 1 mile: Knocks people, tents, light buildings, cars and jeeps over within 1-mile radius. Up to 1.7 miles: shock wave kills people, causes severe damage to buildings, equipment, blows trucks, tanks off road. Up to 2 miles: causes deafness. Up to 5 miles: shakes ground, breaks windows. Up to 30 miles: 10,000 foot high mushroom cloud visible. To Reader's point about the lovely accommodations of the receiving nation, I have significant doubts that the before/after pictures will be particularly inneresting ... it's not like it's being dropped on some modern metropolis. Seriously though ... these displays of power ... who are they actually supposed to impress? If you want, Spicer's doing a presser at present ... https://youtu.be/CBEXro_A-EI looks like giant crayon |
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| Author: | Ogie Oglethorpe [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 1:20 pm ] |
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Obama dropped 26,000 bombs last year. Can we just agree Trump is Bush's 5th term? This is why you vote 3rd party. My claim that Trump and Hillary were the same seems quite relevant over the past few weeks. |
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| Author: | Brick [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 1:20 pm ] |
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Don Tiny wrote: Thank Christ we didn't put that warmongering Hillary in office. Agreed.
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| Author: | FrankDrebin [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 1:30 pm ] |
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -time.html BREAKING NEWS – U.S. drops 'mother of all bombs' on ISIS: America's most massive non-nuclear weapon is used for first time in combat on caves in Afghanistan U.S. dropped its largest non-nuclear weapon after targeting ISIS in Afghanistan The GBU-43 bomb weighs 21,600 pounds, is 30 feet long, contains 11 tons of explosives and carries a mile-wide blast radius It can create a blast crater more than 300 meters wide after being dropped from a Hercules MC-130 cargo plane Trump pledged in 2015 that if he became president he would 'bomb the s**t out of ' ISIS The United States has dropped its largest non-nuclear weapon after it targeted ISIS a network of caves and tunnels in eastern Afghanistan. U.S. forces used a GPS-guided GBU-43 bomb, which is 30 feet long and weighs a staggering 21,600 pounds. A crater left by the blast is believed to be more than 300 meters wide after it exploded six feet above the ground. Anyone at the blast site was vaporized. It has been described as the 'Mother Of All Bombs' – a play on the 'MOAB' acronym, which stands for 'Massive Ordnance Air Burst.' The move marks the fulfilment of a 17-month-old campaign promise President Donald Trump delivered in Iowa, when he scoffed at ISIS terror forces and said he 'would bomb the s**t out of them' if he became president. it also comes at a moment in the young Trump presidency when tensions are rising with Russia over its role in Syria, where ISIS has its headquarters. The explosion will also send a saber-rattling message to North Korea and Iran that rogue states' nuclear-weapons ambitions could be met with brute force. White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters that MOAB is 'a large, powerful and accurately delivered weapon' whose use was intended to collapse underground spaces used by ISIS terrorists to move freely and attack U.S. and allied troops. 'The United States takes the fight against ISIS seriously, and in order to defeat the group we must deny them operational space – which we did,' Spicer said. He referred reporters' questions to the Pentagon and ignored a shouted question about whether Trump was aware the bomb had been dropped. Trump said during a November 2015 campaign rally in Fort Dodge, Iowa that ISIS was 'making a tremendous amount of money' because of 'certain areas of oil that they took away' after the Obama administration withdrew U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. 'They have some in Syria, some in Iraq. I would bomb the s**t out of them,' he said to wild cheers. 'I would just bomb those suckers. That's right. I'd blow up the pipes. ... I'd blow up every single inch. There would be nothing left.' A specialized MC-130 'Hercules' cargo aircraft released the weapon at 7:00 p.m. local time. It was too big to drop from a traditional bomb-bay door or release from an aircraft wing, so 'we kicked it out the back door,' a U.S. official told Fox News. The weapon's sheer power produces a blast that can be felt miles away, largely because of its construction. Engineers used an unusually thin aluminum skin to encase MOAB's payload, in order to avoid a thicker steel frame interfering with the impact on a target. The U.S. fast-tracked the MOAB in 2003 for use in Operation Iraqi Freedom, but the Defense Department later decided that the enemy provided too little resistance to justify its deployment. It was available to the Obama administration throughout the former president's entire two terms, but he never deployed it in combat. Its first practical test was carried out on March 11, 2003 at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. Key stats: Known as the 'Mother Of All Bombs' The U.S. military's largest non-nuclear weapon Each bomb costs around $16 million (£12.8 million) Its explosion is equivalent to 11 tons of TNT and the blast radius is a mile wide First tested by US forces in 2003 It is designed to destroy heavily reinforced targets or to shatter ground forces and armour across a large area 30 feet (9 meters) long and 40 inches (1 meter) wide Weighs 21,000lbs (9,500kg) – heavier than the Hiroshima nuclear bomb Leaves no lasting radiation effect How it's deployed: The bomb has ‘grid’ fins that fold into the body and then open up in flight to help control its descent It can only be deployed out of the back of a large cargo plane due to its size The bomb rides on a pallet, a parachute pulls the pallet and bomb out of the plane The pallet then separates so that the bomb can fall to its target It accelerates rapidly to its terminal velocity and is partially guided to its target via satellite It explodes six feet (1.8 meters) above the ground The idea behind this 'airburst' mechanism is to spread its destructive range |
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| Author: | Frank Coztansa [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 1:50 pm ] |
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RFDC wrote: This is what happens when larry gets mad. Is this your homework, Larry? |
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| Author: | Don Tiny [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 2:07 pm ] |
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| Author: | Killer V [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 2:28 pm ] |
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Let's bomb that stone aged country back into the...um... |
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| Author: | Caller Bob [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 2:34 pm ] |
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 Then again, what did that liberal know? |
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| Author: | Big Chicagoan [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 2:37 pm ] |
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Caller Bob wrote: Then again, what did that liberal know? Yeah, what does General Eisenhower know? |
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| Author: | leashyourkids [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 3:29 pm ] |
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Boilermaker Rick wrote: WaitingforRuffcorn wrote: How does it compare to a nuclear bomb in terms of destruction? If a nuclear bomb is 2005 then this bomb is 2016.Nicely done. #Thats Cub |
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| Author: | Frank Coztansa [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 4:18 pm ] |
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Boilermaker Rick wrote: WaitingforRuffcorn wrote: How does it compare to a nuclear bomb in terms of destruction? If a nuclear bomb is 2005 then this bomb is 2016. |
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| Author: | good dolphin [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 4:22 pm ] |
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Don Tiny wrote: Thank Christ we didn't put that warmongering Hillary in office. What's with all this blaspheming coming from you during Holy Week? |
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| Author: | Killer V [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 6:41 pm ] |
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Fires missiles, gets praised. Then drops HUGE bomb. Did not see that one coming.  What's next? |
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| Author: | ToxicMasculinity [ Thu Apr 13, 2017 7:13 pm ] |
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Killer V wrote: Fires missiles, gets praised. Then drops HUGE bomb. Did not see that one coming. What's next? Deporting the Mothers of all Juans |
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