First MOAB has been delivered to Iraq...

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: bentwookie
February 27, 2003: The U.S. Air Force is developing a new, 2nd generation, ten ton large, low air burst bomb. It will replace the older "Daisy Cutter" 7.5 ton bomb developed during the 1960s. This was a 7.5 ton bomb using a semi-liquid explosive for clearing landing zones in the Vietnam jungle...

Where did that article come from? I could swear I have read it, but I cant remember where, and its bugging me

 

[bentwookie]

Originally posted by: Mookow

Originally posted by: bentwookie
February 27, 2003: The U.S. Air Force is developing a new, 2nd generation, ten ton large, low air burst bomb. It will replace the older "Daisy Cutter" 7.5 ton bomb developed during the 1960s. This was a 7.5 ton bomb using a semi-liquid explosive for clearing landing zones in the Vietnam jungle...

Where did that article come from? I could swear I have read it, but I cant remember where, and its bugging me

check my link about halfway up the thread.

 

[Pastfinder]

Now all we need is to get the remains of the Republican Guard out in the open, then drop the sucker...

 

[Marshallj]

Originally posted by: sparkyclarky
Interesting. In other words, our way of sidestepping using nuclear weapons by making a conventional bomb more powerful than the only nuclear weapons ever dropped in war. Man do we think up some interesting ways to kill each other and get away with it....

What kind of crack are you smoking?

This is nowhere even remotely close to the power of a nuclear weapon.

This is 9 tons of explosives + steel casing. The first nuke we ever detonated (Trinity) was the equivalent of 20,000 tons.

 

[XCLAN]

omg each one of you have no idea wut yer talkin about
i helped build the MOAB

 

[birdog]

Here is a picture of it. It is a 21,500 pound conventional bomb

 

[dudleydocker]

Interesting. In other words, our way of sidestepping using nuclear weapons by making a conventional bomb more powerful than the only nuclear weapons ever dropped in war. Man do we think up some interesting ways to kill each other and get away with it....

hehe.....an aspiring journalist if ever I saw one!:disgust:

So next time before b!tching about the US dropping "conventional boms more powerful than nukes", try not to be off, by say, any more than TWO orders of magnitude. It would be an improvement.

over the last week I do believe that the press has set a record for the most wildly outlandish, absurd, and just plain stupid comments of all time.

Press glum over U.S. victory

Peter Jennings gets my vote....who's in charge at ABC that lets such a dick blather on like him?

 

[Looney]

The war is almost over, so why are they moving the MOAB over now?

 

[Marshallj]

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
The war is almost over, so why are they moving the MOAB over now?

Probably just to test it out in real wartime conditions.

 

[rickn]

Originally posted by: XCLAN
omg each one of you have no idea wut yer talkin about
i helped build the MOAB

I think you meant MOAF (Mother of all Farts)

 

[DT4K]

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
The war is almost over, so why are they moving the MOAB over now?

We may still have a lot of fighting to do.
They probably want to drop it in the middle of Tikrit. That is Saddam's hometown afterall and home to some of his most loyal followers. Too bad nukes have that pesky radiation fallout to worry about. J/K.

Some of you should learn a little math.

21,000 lbs is just a little less than 20,000,000 lbs. LMFAO.

 

[Jmman]

Originally posted by: sparkyclarky
Interesting. In other words, our way of sidestepping using nuclear weapons by making a conventional bomb more powerful than the only nuclear weapons ever dropped in war. Man do we think up some interesting ways to kill each other and get away with it....

Obviously intelligence is not a prerequisite for being an Anandtech member.....

 

[Mingon]

Here is a picture of it. It is a 21,500 pound conventional bomb

no its a thermobaric weapon

 

[Kenazo]

still not as cool as the Brit's cement bomb.