US drops biggest Mother Of All Bombs

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[h=2]US drops biggest non-nuclear weapon on ISIS: 21,000lb GBU-43 bomb is used for first time in combat on caves in Afghanistan[/h]

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  The United States has dropped its largest non-nuclear weapon after it targeted ISIS caves in Afghanistan. The military used a GBU-43 bomb - which weighs a staggering 21,000lbs - and the radius from the blast is believed to more than 300 metres. It has been described as the 'mother of all bombs' and the Pentagon today confirmed that it was dropped in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province. The action is believed to be the first time the non-nuclear weapon has been used in a combat situation. It has been reported that a MC-130 aircraft released the weapon at 7pm local time. Pictured left: GBU-43 bomb test being carried out in Florida Eglin Air Force Base, in November 21 2003. Center: large mushroom cloud ascends after a 2003 test in Florida.Right: US soldiers in Achin district of Nangarhar province as they take up positions against ISIS on April 11 2017.

 

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[h=1]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[/h]

• 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 and contains 11 tons of explosives
• It can create a blast crater more than 300 meters wide after being dropped from a Hercules MC-130 cargo plane
• The Pentagon confirmed on Thursday that it was dropped

 

[superbeets]

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. It has been described as the 'Mother Of All Bombs' – a play on the 'MOAB' acronym, which actually stands for 'Massive Ordnance Air Burst.'
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.

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The military used GBU-43 (pictured), which weighs a staggering 21,000 pounds, and has earned the moniker 'Mother Of All Bombs'

'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.
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.

 

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In 2003, the US military successfully tested the weapon in Florida and sent a blast wave that could be felt more than a mile away

Its first practical test was carried out on March 11, 2003 at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.
The Pentagon confirmed Thursday that the explosive colossus was dropped in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, making it the first time America's largest non-nuclear weapon has been used in a combat situation.
Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump said it was the first ever combat use of the bomb, which contains 11 tons of explosives.
Stump said the bomb was dropped on a cave complex believed to be used by ISIS fighters in the Achin district of Nangarhar province, very close to the border with Pakistan.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

That should put to rest all the notions that we can't take out Iran's nuclear facilities because they're underground.

 

[ScottL]

That should put to rest all the notions that we can't take out Iran's nuclear facilities because they're underground.

The truth is we probably still don't know. We probably won't know how effective THIS STRIKE was for awhile. The caves we just hit are probably under mountains. Iran's terrain may be easier or harder? Also probably a lot easier to kill humans running in tunnels than it is to destroy nuclear equipment. Anyway we're out $314 million so I hope we get our money's worth in ISIS corpses.

 

[boss415]

The truth is we probably still don't know. We probably won't know how effective THIS STRIKE was for awhile. The caves we just hit are probably under mountains. Iran's terrain may be easier or harder? Also probably a lot easier to kill humans running in tunnels than it is to destroy nuclear equipment. Anyway we're out $314 million so I hope we get our money's worth in ISIS corpses.

314 million? I knee I should have gotten into the bomb business

 

[Dave007inVegas]

The truth is we probably still don't know. We probably won't know how effective THIS STRIKE was for awhile. The caves we just hit are probably under mountains. Iran's terrain may be easier or harder? Also probably a lot easier to kill humans running in tunnels than it is to destroy nuclear equipment. Anyway we're out $314 million so I hope we get our money's worth in ISIS corpses.

I'm no military expert but it seems to me there have to be entrances to
get into the facilities. Fire a missile in there and seal it off and
when they reopen it, wash, rinse, repeat.

 

[michael777]

God ,I knew Donald was awesome,but this is even better than i dreamed of! Give them HELL Donald!!

 

[boss415]

God ,I knew Donald was awesome,but this is even better than i dreamed of! Give them HELL Donald!!

No shit ! What the hell were we saving that bomb for ? Should have blown those caves and all those cock roaches up years ago!

 

[festeringZit]

God ,I knew Donald was awesome,but this is even better than i dreamed of! Give them HELL Donald!!

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[superbeets]

Trump pledged in 2015 that if he became president he would 'bomb the s**t out of ' ISIS

 

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HOW THE MOTHER OF ALL BOMBS KILLS PEOPLE: VAPORIZED BODIES, CRUSHED INTERNAL ORGANS AND SUFFOCATED TO DEATH

The GBU-43, otherwise known as the Mother of All Bombs, or MOAB unleashes a devastating fireball that incinerates anything within 300 feet when it first detonates.
In the milliseconds following the initial blast, all the oxygen would have been sucked out of the tunnels and for hundreds of feet around, literally sucking the life out of terrorists, suffocating them as their lungs imploded.



Then, in a flash the fiery shockwave would have blasted outwards at the speed of sound for up to a mile, causing huge concussive injuries to anyone caught in its path, essentially smashing them to death, while at the same time leveling buildings and trees.


Ears would have been left bleeding and internal organs battered by the staggering force of the blast.


Anyone caught inside the tunnels would have been crushed as the force of 19,000 pounds of highly complex explosives caused them to collapse on the ISIS terrorists.


Anyone left alive would have been shocked and left in awe by the ferocity of the blast - the psychological scars staying with them forever.


Its frightening power was unleashed by the United States for the first time on Thursday when it was dropped on an ISIS camp in Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province, in order to obliterate underground tunnels used by the terrorists.


A crater left by the blast is believed to be more than 300 feet wide after it exploded just six feet above the ground. Anyone at the blast site was vaporized.

The energy released by the nearly 19,000 pounds of highly complex explosive, would have caused a barometric shock wave known as 'overpressure' that moves at the speed of sound away from ground zero.

Classed as a thermobaric bomb - 'thermo' for heat and 'baric' for pressure, the MOAB features a two stage detonation powered by H6 explosive which contains powdered aluminum.

The first blast detonates and spreads highly flammable aluminum dust and the second is the baric blast - which literally sucks oxygen out from cave tunnels before rapidly becoming an expanding shock wave.

Both the implosion and the blast wave cause massive internal damage to anyone who has not been already been incinerated by the detonation, with most injuries to hollow organs such as the ears, lungs and stomach.

Anyone in the tunnels who did not have the life sucked out them would have then been crushed to death by the sheer force of the explosion.

However, an explosion in the Afghan desert is one thing. To bring things closer to home, what would be the effect of a MOAB detonation on Times Square?

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MOAB: The Mother of All Bombs - otherwise known as the GBU-43 would obliterate most of Times Square with a yield blast of 0.011 KT

 

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Sheer power: The effects of a MOAB detonation are explained below - 1: FireBall - 2 - Air Blast - 3 - Continuing Air Blast and 4 - Burn injuries

 

[superbeets]

1: Laser guided and parachuted down onto the Crossroads of The World, the MOAB would technically explode as an airburst weapon, albeit from six-feet and not thousands, like a nuclear bomb.



The fireball radius would be 300-feet, incinerating every person and obliterating Times Square's famous jumbotrons and billboards.


2: As the bomb ignites the alumimum dust and nearly 19,000 pounds of explosives a shock wave sucks the air from another 160-feet of prime Manhattan real estate and destroying Broadway. Concrete buildings are severely damaged and fatalities are also close to 100 percent here.




3: The dissapated air blast continues on for another 300-feet, damaging more residential buildings and causing injury to anyone caught up in the blast and more fatalities.




4: People up to 330-feet away from Ground Zero would suffer 3rd degree burns and some would suffer the loss of their limbs.




The NukeMap estimates casualties for the blast to be 2,600 and injuries to be 2,380 - but at anyone time there are up to 10,000 to 15,000 people in the center of Times Square, so these figures are conservative.

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However, with a yield blast of 0.011 KT the MOAB pales in comparison to even the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima - Little Boy - which had a yield of 15 KT. Above is a simulation if that nuclear device was dropped on Times Square

 

[superbeets]

The IDIOT CLOWN Obama


Never listened to his generals. Never used such available military options.


What a cowardly shit Obama was.

 

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President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House that he had authorized his military commanders to take actions like the one put into play on Thursday

 

[superbeets]

Obama is the Mother of all cowards.

 

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Huge: The MOAB test fired in 2003 shortly before final preparations for it to be loaded onto an MC-130 attack aircraft

 

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Then-candidate Donald Trump told an Iowa audience in November 2015 that he would fight ISIS from the air as president: 'I would bomb the s**t out of them'