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Eli
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Jul 2000
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Any pictures of the blast?
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MichaeltheGreat
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Apolyton Grand Executioner
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mooning the house that Ruth built.
Oct 1999
time: 21:26
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There are a lot of entrenched and fortified positions the Iraqis will be dug into, plus buried command bunkers, etc.
Drop one of those, and you wipe out all resistance in a given area, the guys nearby will be blind (most will recover some vision), deaf (most won't recover their hearing), coughing and urinating blood and shitting their pants.
Word will get around, and pretty soon, those type of heavily dug in positions won't be occupied.
The net result will save lives on both sides - these things are expensive to make, there won't be many in production, and only certain aircraft will be able to drop them, so they're very limited use weapons.
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Demerzel
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not something you'd want anyone to have though, and certainly not something that even the troops in the field will be too interested in having dropped anywhere near them.
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Jon Miller
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I am too
excluding nuklear weapons of course
(And I was pronuklear weapons in Japan)
Jon Miller
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Demerzel
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The MOAB - when you absolutely, positively have to kill every motherf*cker in the world, accept no substitute.
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Sten Sture
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SF, CA don't call it frisco... Striker!!
Mar 1999
time: 21:26
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Here is the www.strategypage.com report from Feb 27.
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. The terms "Daisy Cutter" actually comes from the four foot probe at the bottom of the bomb which triggered the explosion without creating a crater (helicopters don't like to land in craters.) The probe was later replaced with a radar altimeter fuze, but the nickname "Daisy Cutter" stuck. The official designation was BLU-82 (or "Big Blue"). Until the BLU-82 came along, the biggest non-nuclear explosion obtainable was with a FAE (Fuel Air Explosives). FAE works by dropping a bomb that is actually a large aerosol dispenser. When the FAE "explodes" it first dispenses a large cloud of flammable material (anything like gasoline or propane will work). The cloud is then ignited and huge explosion results. There's one drawback, the size and density of the aerosol cloud depends a lot on the wind, air temperature and humidity. So the power of the explosion will vary a lot. But it's difficult to get a FAE to work in a bomb larger than 2000 pounds. So the replacement for the BLU-82 bomb, called MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Burst) simply uses more of the slurry of ammonium nitrate and powdered aluminum. In dry, dusty conditions, the Daisy Cutter produces a mushroom cloud similar to that created by a nuclear explosion (and for the same reason, the sheer size of the explosion creates an upward pull that sends up a "mushroom" of smoke and dust on a column of smoke). In addition to a more powerful explosion, MOAB doesn’t need a parachute, like the Daisy Cutter, but uses a GPS (like JDAM) and an aerodynamic body to detonate the bomb at a precise area. Thus the MOAB can be dropped from a higher altitude (like outside the range of machine-guns and rifles). Like the Daisy Cutter, MOAB is shoved out the back of a cargo aircraft (usually a C-130, but since the MOAB uses GPS and higher altitude drops, the C-17 can probably be used as well.) MOAB is a highly destructive and terrifying weapon. If used in Iraq, it would demoralize any Iraqi troops in the vicinity who survived the explosion. The force of a MOAB explosion is sufficient to knock over tanks and kill any people within several hundred meters of the detonation. After the 1991 Gulf War, the United States started to get rid of it's various FAE weapons. But some were left in the inventory when the Afghanistan came along and the success of Daisy Cutters there, plus the new Russian research in FAE weapons, led to the new American research effort. There may be larger, or simply more powerful, FAE weapons in the works. But for the moment, MOAB, ...
there is more, but the next page won't load right now. That was most of the report iirc.
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12-03-2003 02:13
Is that really a good idea, to make them think we're using WMDs on them?
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