Is this pic real? I found it on 4chan. SFW

[lupi]

thats because its not a freaking missile!!!! its a gravity BOMB. besides that what is the right type of "motion blur"???

http://www.vectorsite.net/twbomb_05_07.png

have you ever seen a live bomb before? have you ever seen one dropped before? i mean in real life not on call to duty 4.

once it was dropped it acts like a missle for all purposes of analyzing this photo moron.

 

[theflyingpig]

i hope this is sarcasm but if its not,

what do you know about military weapons?

What do I know about military weapons? More than you. More than silly liberals making silly propaganda. Educated people don't fall for garbage like this. The fact that you think my post was sarcasm is proof of your foolishness. Everyone knows this.

 

[amdhunter]

You dont need 4 chan. Just do a Google Image (large) for "shaving cream", you will find it.

lol.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

entirely plausible.

That is a GBU gravity bomb, not a missle. It is laser guided to the target. Here is video of a similar weapon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB6KZ7Z8IZc&feature=related

Now, if this was a 'shop, that would mean that some reporter took the time to photoshop not only the picture in question, but the other 2 or 3 shots taken immediately after, showing the plume of smoke and debris. Not likely. What would be the gain? If he just wanted to shop in a bomb, he could very well have done so and submitted the single picture.

As far as the ordinance techs comments, the blast appears to be several hundred yards to over a thousand yards away. Far beyond the effective radius of such a weapon.

 

[brblx]

if the blast was hundreds of yards away, that's one huge fucking bomb hanging in the sky.

edit- although with the big pic now in the OP, some things do seem more plausible. the rear fins are definitely out, for one.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

once it was dropped it acts like a missle for all purposes of analyzing this photo moron.

no, it doesn't. A missle would have additonal velocity from the motor, and travel at a much higher speed.

 

[Rubycon]

404 Missile Not Found

 

[theflyingpig]

entirely plausible.

That is a GBU gravity bomb, not a missle. It is laser guided to the target. Here is video of a similar weapon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB6KZ7Z8IZc&feature=related

Now, if this was a 'shop, that would mean that some reporter took the time to photoshop not only the picture in question, but the other 2 or 3 shots taken immediately after, showing the plume of smoke and debris. Not likely. What would be the gain? If he just wanted to shop in a bomb, he could very well have done so and submitted the single picture.

As far as the ordinance techs comments, the blast appears to be several hundred yards to over a thousand yards away. Far beyond the effective radius of such a weapon.

lol. You're still clinging to the belief that this photo is something more than photoshopped propaganda. It's amazing how someone would not only believe this garbage, but would go and do some amateur analysis to reinforce his ignorance. Let me tell you something, Mikey boy. You are wrong. Everyone knows this.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

lol. You're still clinging to the belief that this photo is something more than photoshopped propaganda. It's amazing how someone would not only believe this garbage, but would go and do some amateur analysis to reinforce his ignorance. Let me tell you something, Mikey boy. You are wrong. Everyone knows this.

Looks like a Paveway III by the way, modified with smaller fins to fit in the F-117 and later sold to Israel (as the caption states, this is an Israeli attack)

 

[gaidensensei]

404 Missile Not Found

Great file name!

 

[lupi]

no, it doesn't. A missle would have additonal velocity from the motor, and travel at a much higher speed.

not necessarily.

 

[thecrecarc]

The picture is valid enough to be on the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/world/middleeast/26mideast.html

 

[brblx]

The picture is valid enough to be on the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/world/middleeast/26mideast.html

...which is calling it a missile.

 

[Nik]

Probably fake. You don't run away from something like that, you lay on the ground to avoid the shrapnel (which is what does the damage).

Actually, what you would do is stand there like you have no idea that you're about to get hit. Those things are fast. It's got to be fake; those kids wouldn't have time enough to look at it.

 

[sandorski]

Actually, what you would do is stand there like you have no idea that you're about to get hit. Those things are fast. It's got to be fake; those kids wouldn't have time enough to look at it.

Never had one of those fall on or near me, but could it be possible that they saw it being dropped and were only looking in the general direction of where the bomb appeared to be headed?

Or, would this type of Bomb make significant noise giving a clear indication of its' general whereabouts?

Basically I am thinking that these people may very well not have been seeing the Bomb like the Pic sees it. They may have simply been well aware that it was heading in their direction and they had to GTFO of there.

 

[LegendKiller]

The picture is valid enough to be on the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/world/middleeast/26mideast.html

Stories are regurgitated from one media outlet to another. They just chew eachothers cud and post it up for everybody else to swallow. There's very little real investigative reporting these days. Just reporting of American Idol and gossip, along with re-spewed trash.

There were many instances of the Palestinians propagandizing the war they had.

It's just like the chinese photochopping their fireworks.

 

[nerp]

Yeah, a bomb falling at hundreds of MPH is going to be clearly visible like that by a photographer running from it.

You guys are laughable.

your camera must suck

 

[nerp]

Stories are regurgitated from one media outlet to another. They just chew eachothers cud and post it up for everybody else to swallow. There's very little real investigative reporting these days. Just reporting of American Idol and gossip, along with re-spewed trash.

There were many instances of the Palestinians propagandizing the war they had.

It's just like the chinese photochopping their fireworks.

call the ap and ask, mr pundit. or are you too scared of being shown to be a guessing blowhard?

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

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This photo was edited in Photoshop. This does not mean the bomb was added, but that's likely the edit. This is why I needed the source (at least as far as we know).

You're a fucking retard. Every single one of my photos goes through Photoshop, same with any competent photographer who uses a DSLR. Even if you're shooting in JPG (heaven forbid, but we can forgive press photogs who have tight deadlines) you still need to push your images through PS for sharpening and spot removal (think his sensor doesn't have dust on it in that environment?). The fact that an image has been through PS doesn't mean it has been "photoshopped" in the popular sense of the word.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

get up, get down with the fakeness. i'm certainly no expert, but i know something badly faked when i see it.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

You're a fucking retard. Every single one of my photos goes through Photoshop, same with any competent photographer who uses a DSLR. Even if you're shooting in JPG (heaven forbid, but we can forgive press photogs who have tight deadlines) you still need to push your images through PS for sharpening and spot removal (think his sensor doesn't have dust on it in that environment?). The fact that an image has been through PS doesn't mean it has been "photoshopped" in the popular sense of the word.

You're the fucking retard. Read my whole post then read it again if you still come to the same conclusion.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

This photo was edited in Photoshop. This does not mean the bomb was added, but that's likely the edit. This is why I needed the source (at least as far as we know).

What's likely the edit is normal photoshop work. Assuming that any competent photographer puts every photo through PS or similar then the fact that it has been in PS gives no new information.

 

[ShawnD1]

I call shens. These look photoshopped.

 

[QueBert]

What's likely the edit is normal photoshop work. Assuming that any competent photographer puts every photo through PS or similar then the fact that it has been in PS gives no new information.


But but but, Photoshop is what people use to 'Shop pictures, what's killing me is this pic has turned up on legit news sites and people on here are claiming the NY Times doesn't research shit and shouldn't be trusted.

 

[novasatori]

The real question is, if the bomb was released computer calculated free fall, do the fins deploy.

If not, it could be real, if they do, not real.

I obviously know nothing of the fin deployment profiles of the GBU-12 (I think that's what it is, you can see videos on youtube).

Explosions of GBU-12 in videos look the same too.

The fins could also retract prior to impact when its in terminal stages.