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The Snooze Press (Ft Myers paper) had an interesting article about
this bomb. It was developed at Eglin AFB in the pan handle and they were talking to a guy there. It turns out this is the most expensive barrel bomb I have ever heard of. These are 16 million a pop. I am not quite sure why you need precision guidance on a bomb with a 1 mile blast radius but it has it. I am still not sure why it is so expensive but it is a DoD project. The guy was saying he really expected these things to be "demilled" (scrapped) probably because they were approaching their expiration date. I suppose it was "use it or lose it" for the air force. I am still not sure how effective it actually was but since it is really a "shock and awe" weapon, I suppose we shocked someone using it. In typical fashion, the russians just packed a bigger tank with explosive and have a bigger one but I am not sure if it is guided and I know it was a lot cheaper. |
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7:21 AMKeyser Soze - show quoted text - I read where the bomb killed a couple of dozen people. Big ****ing Deal. At some point, we'll just pull out of Afghanistan and stop wasting American lives and American money. Your not-so-almighty military isn't going to solve it. ..... It also took out a tunnel system loaded with thousands of tons of munitions and supplies. Looks like your military solved that one. |
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On 4/15/2017 8:21 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 4/15/17 7:40 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 4/15/2017 1:20 AM, wrote: The Snooze Press (Ft Myers paper) had an interesting article about this bomb. It was developed at Eglin AFB in the pan handle and they were talking to a guy there. It turns out this is the most expensive barrel bomb I have ever heard of. These are 16 million a pop. I am not quite sure why you need precision guidance on a bomb with a 1 mile blast radius but it has it. I am still not sure why it is so expensive but it is a DoD project. The guy was saying he really expected these things to be "demilled" (scrapped) probably because they were approaching their expiration date. I suppose it was "use it or lose it" for the air force. I am still not sure how effective it actually was but since it is really a "shock and awe" weapon, I suppose we shocked someone using it. In typical fashion, the russians just packed a bigger tank with explosive and have a bigger one but I am not sure if it is guided and I know it was a lot cheaper. If you believe the Pentagon, it was the perfect weapon for the intended purpose. Apparently several attempts by Afghan forces (with American special force advisers) had been made with boots on the ground to clear the caves and tunnels of ISIS without success. They just ran through the tunnels into Pakistan. The MOAB took care of that problem. I read where the bomb killed a couple of dozen people. Big ****ing Deal. At some point, we'll just pull out of Afghanistan and stop wasting American lives and American money. Your not-so-almighty military isn't going to solve it. The primary objective wasn't to kill anyone although ridding the planet of 36 more terrorists was an added benefit. It's primary purpose was to destroy the caves and tunnels being used as a "safe zone" for ISIS terrorists who were avoiding our forces by temporarily fleeing to Pakastan. |
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On 4/15/17 9:28 AM, Tim wrote:
7:21 AMKeyser Soze - show quoted text - I read where the bomb killed a couple of dozen people. Big ****ing Deal. At some point, we'll just pull out of Afghanistan and stop wasting American lives and American money. Your not-so-almighty military isn't going to solve it. .... It also took out a tunnel system loaded with thousands of tons of munitions and supplies. Looks like your military solved that one. Yeah, like it'll take a week or so to replace the supplies. Total waste of money. |
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On 4/15/17 9:55 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 4/15/2017 8:21 AM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 4/15/17 7:40 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 4/15/2017 1:20 AM, wrote: The Snooze Press (Ft Myers paper) had an interesting article about this bomb. It was developed at Eglin AFB in the pan handle and they were talking to a guy there. It turns out this is the most expensive barrel bomb I have ever heard of. These are 16 million a pop. I am not quite sure why you need precision guidance on a bomb with a 1 mile blast radius but it has it. I am still not sure why it is so expensive but it is a DoD project. The guy was saying he really expected these things to be "demilled" (scrapped) probably because they were approaching their expiration date. I suppose it was "use it or lose it" for the air force. I am still not sure how effective it actually was but since it is really a "shock and awe" weapon, I suppose we shocked someone using it. In typical fashion, the russians just packed a bigger tank with explosive and have a bigger one but I am not sure if it is guided and I know it was a lot cheaper. If you believe the Pentagon, it was the perfect weapon for the intended purpose. Apparently several attempts by Afghan forces (with American special force advisers) had been made with boots on the ground to clear the caves and tunnels of ISIS without success. They just ran through the tunnels into Pakistan. The MOAB took care of that problem. I read where the bomb killed a couple of dozen people. Big ****ing Deal. At some point, we'll just pull out of Afghanistan and stop wasting American lives and American money. Your not-so-almighty military isn't going to solve it. The primary objective wasn't to kill anyone although ridding the planet of 36 more terrorists was an added benefit. It's primary purpose was to destroy the caves and tunnels being used as a "safe zone" for ISIS terrorists who were avoiding our forces by temporarily fleeing to Pakastan. There are hundreds of caves and tunnels, as the Russkies learned. It was a wasted effort, except, of course, for the PR Trump thought would help him. |
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On 4/15/17 10:14 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 4/15/17 9:55 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 4/15/2017 8:21 AM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 4/15/17 7:40 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 4/15/2017 1:20 AM, wrote: The Snooze Press (Ft Myers paper) had an interesting article about this bomb. It was developed at Eglin AFB in the pan handle and they were talking to a guy there. It turns out this is the most expensive barrel bomb I have ever heard of. These are 16 million a pop. I am not quite sure why you need precision guidance on a bomb with a 1 mile blast radius but it has it. I am still not sure why it is so expensive but it is a DoD project. The guy was saying he really expected these things to be "demilled" (scrapped) probably because they were approaching their expiration date. I suppose it was "use it or lose it" for the air force. I am still not sure how effective it actually was but since it is really a "shock and awe" weapon, I suppose we shocked someone using it. In typical fashion, the russians just packed a bigger tank with explosive and have a bigger one but I am not sure if it is guided and I know it was a lot cheaper. If you believe the Pentagon, it was the perfect weapon for the intended purpose. Apparently several attempts by Afghan forces (with American special force advisers) had been made with boots on the ground to clear the caves and tunnels of ISIS without success. They just ran through the tunnels into Pakistan. The MOAB took care of that problem. I read where the bomb killed a couple of dozen people. Big ****ing Deal. At some point, we'll just pull out of Afghanistan and stop wasting American lives and American money. Your not-so-almighty military isn't going to solve it. The primary objective wasn't to kill anyone although ridding the planet of 36 more terrorists was an added benefit. It's primary purpose was to destroy the caves and tunnels being used as a "safe zone" for ISIS terrorists who were avoiding our forces by temporarily fleeing to Pakastan. There are hundreds of caves and tunnels, as the Russkies learned. It was a wasted effort, except, of course, for the PR Trump thought would help him. The US military has confirmed this week that the root of all the problems in the Middle East was that there just wasn’t a big enough bomb. Until now… US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis commented, “I’ve been looking at this issue for some time, first in my role as Commander of CENTCOM and now as a senior advisor to the Toddler-in-Chief. And the conclusion I’ve come to is that we just weren’t dropping big enough bombs. This was really brought home to me earlier this week when the President authorized us to launch Tomahawk cruise missiles at Syria. Sure, they looked really cool but they made really small bangs. Unless of course, you happened to be standing under one, in which case for those people, well, you know.” “But now in the beautiful shape of the Mother of All Bombs (MOAB), we have the solution. If I may a coin a phrase it is indeed ‘bigly’. We’ve run a test in Afghanistan and I’m pleased to say that shortly after it incinerated several dozen of their fighters, the Islamic State has thrown in the towel. Job done! The plan at present is to drop one on Libya this coming Monday, then two more on Iraq on Tuesday, followed on Wednesday by whatever we have left onto Syria. If all goes well we intend to solve the Arab-Israeli dispute by handing Israel and Egypt 50 MOABs each and letting them have at it. Frankly, I’m surprised we’re the first Administration to think of this.” http://tinyurl.com/ktpgh4w |
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 07:40:14 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 4/15/2017 1:20 AM, wrote: The Snooze Press (Ft Myers paper) had an interesting article about this bomb. It was developed at Eglin AFB in the pan handle and they were talking to a guy there. It turns out this is the most expensive barrel bomb I have ever heard of. These are 16 million a pop. I am not quite sure why you need precision guidance on a bomb with a 1 mile blast radius but it has it. I am still not sure why it is so expensive but it is a DoD project. The guy was saying he really expected these things to be "demilled" (scrapped) probably because they were approaching their expiration date. I suppose it was "use it or lose it" for the air force. I am still not sure how effective it actually was but since it is really a "shock and awe" weapon, I suppose we shocked someone using it. In typical fashion, the russians just packed a bigger tank with explosive and have a bigger one but I am not sure if it is guided and I know it was a lot cheaper. If you believe the Pentagon, it was the perfect weapon for the intended purpose. Apparently several attempts by Afghan forces (with American special force advisers) had been made with boots on the ground to clear the caves and tunnels of ISIS without success. They just ran through the tunnels into Pakistan. The MOAB took care of that problem. I don't believe the pentagon on much, particularly on untested weapons. When I see things like this I am reminded of the navy/marines in the Pacific in WWII. They would lob thousands of 16" shells onto islands to kill the nips in the caves, then go ashore and find out, they might be shaken up but they were still alive and shooting. Our ability to root people out of tunnels and caves has always been spotty and we always seem to come up with a new idea that doesn't really work as well as we hoped. I still think we used that one because it was coming up on it's expiration date and they knew Trump liked the idea of "biggest" anything. I am still waiting for a real BDA |
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On 4/15/2017 10:14 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 4/15/17 9:55 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 4/15/2017 8:21 AM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 4/15/17 7:40 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 4/15/2017 1:20 AM, wrote: The Snooze Press (Ft Myers paper) had an interesting article about this bomb. It was developed at Eglin AFB in the pan handle and they were talking to a guy there. It turns out this is the most expensive barrel bomb I have ever heard of. These are 16 million a pop. I am not quite sure why you need precision guidance on a bomb with a 1 mile blast radius but it has it. I am still not sure why it is so expensive but it is a DoD project. The guy was saying he really expected these things to be "demilled" (scrapped) probably because they were approaching their expiration date. I suppose it was "use it or lose it" for the air force. I am still not sure how effective it actually was but since it is really a "shock and awe" weapon, I suppose we shocked someone using it. In typical fashion, the russians just packed a bigger tank with explosive and have a bigger one but I am not sure if it is guided and I know it was a lot cheaper. If you believe the Pentagon, it was the perfect weapon for the intended purpose. Apparently several attempts by Afghan forces (with American special force advisers) had been made with boots on the ground to clear the caves and tunnels of ISIS without success. They just ran through the tunnels into Pakistan. The MOAB took care of that problem. I read where the bomb killed a couple of dozen people. Big ****ing Deal. At some point, we'll just pull out of Afghanistan and stop wasting American lives and American money. Your not-so-almighty military isn't going to solve it. The primary objective wasn't to kill anyone although ridding the planet of 36 more terrorists was an added benefit. It's primary purpose was to destroy the caves and tunnels being used as a "safe zone" for ISIS terrorists who were avoiding our forces by temporarily fleeing to Pakastan. There are hundreds of caves and tunnels, as the Russkies learned. It was a wasted effort, except, of course, for the PR Trump thought would help him. Well, if that's the case, we have 14 more of those MOAB's in inventory. |
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