USA drops "Mother of All Bombs" on Afghanistan

[SystemParanoia]

Time for Russia to drop a full yield Tsar Bomba in the same place

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

[Welshbeef]

seyre1972 said:

Wacky Racer said:

GBU-43/B is official title - affectionately known as the MOAB - Massive Ordnance Air Blast - or Mother Of All Bombs .... Reckoned to be the most powerful conventional weapon in Americas Arsenal - then you step up-to the Nuclear option.

TSAR bomb is the daddy and another they never tested would be multiples of that.

[Vipers]

Pumps certainly spending the military budget.

[Goaty Bill 2]

BlackLabel said:

Clinton mastered the art of lobbing a few bombs here and there when things aren't going too well at home and it seems Trump is following suit, and it's working - Syria and now this. There's nothing better to unite the good folks of the United States than a new war or an escalation of a current conflict. Yee-haw!

He did too.
'No One Left To Lie To' by Christopher Hitchens documents and reminds us of good ol' boy Billy's perniciousness when attempting to cover his own sorry ass (or whatever part of his anatomy or cigar collection was in question at the time).

Edited by Goaty Bill 2 on Thursday 13th April 21:09

[FN2TypeR]

Vipers said:

Pumps certainly spending the military budget.

I wonder how much one costs? I had a quick google and couldn't see anything - they were first tested in the early 2000s, but I'm not sure when their development began. The bomb in question will surely be pretty "old" though, surely?

[avinalarf]

Jockman said:

Is that Madagascar orange??

Very very funny.....

[mybrainhurts]

bazza white said:

Cold said:

I think the next biggest bomb they've got would actually be a nuclear device.

The Russians have the father of all bombs.

And the Welsh have exploding sheep...

[amgmcqueen]

Butter Face said:

9m long and 1m wide weighing 10,300kg.

Suppose you can call it 'big'!!

I've had no complaints.......Giggity!

[Vipers]

FN2TypeR said:

Vipers said:

Pumps certainly spending the military budget.

I wonder how much one costs? I had a quick google and couldn't see anything - they were first tested in the early 2000s, but I'm not sure when their development began. The bomb in question will surely be pretty "old" though, surely?

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2017/04/13/Heres-How-Much-Mother-All-Bombs-Costs

The United States Defense Department likes to show off. After proving it can move with the quick strike capability of a cobra as it did when it launched 59 tomahawk missiles at a Syrian airfield, the Pentagon on Thursday decided to up the ante by showing its muscle.

They dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb against ISIS in the Nangarhar Province in Afghanistan. The GBU-43B known as the Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) or the Mother of All Bombs, is a 20,000-pound monster. It took $314 million to develop and has a unit cost of $16 million.

[AshVX220]

130R said:

till probably better than having a thermite cluster bomb or white phosphorus dropped on your head.

Yeah, marginally!

[BigLion]

It's a shame that this is the way we choose to apply ourselves as a human race

[Vipers]

BigLion said:

It's a shame that this is the way we choose to apply ourselves as a human race

It's a pity these scum exist and have to be eradicated.

[BigLion]

Vipers said:

BigLion said:

It's a shame that this is the way we choose to apply ourselves as a human race

It's a pity these scum exist and have to be eradicated.

Can you imagine if all the worlds resource / people focus was about eliminating poverty, physical ailments and mental illnesses etc.

(recognise that historically the arms race has led to various technological leaps)

[mybrainhurts]

BigLion said:

Vipers said:

BigLion said:

It's a shame that this is the way we choose to apply ourselves as a human race

It's a pity these scum exist and have to be eradicated.

Can you imagine if all the worlds resource / people focus was about eliminating poverty, physical ailments and mental illnesses etc.

(recognise that historically the arms race has led to various technological leaps)

Nah, much more fun making big bangs...

[mac96]

mybrainhurts said:

BigLion said:

Vipers said:

BigLion said:

It's a shame that this is the way we choose to apply ourselves as a human race

It's a pity these scum exist and have to be eradicated.

Can you imagine if all the worlds resource / people focus was about eliminating poverty, physical ailments and mental illnesses etc.

(recognise that historically the arms race has led to various technological leaps)

Nah, much more fun making big bangs...

Provided that they are somewhere else.

[Pesty]

dcb said:

Mike_Mac said:

Pffft! That was nothing... back in WW2 before the US went Nuclear the RAF was dropping these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Slam_(bomb)

ETA - as Deptford Draylons has already pointed out!!

+1.

British RAF was doing this 70+ years ago, thanks to the wizardry of Barnes-Wallis.

Give the US propensity for Blue-on-Blue damage time after time
after time. any troops in the area must have been pretty worried.

We even used live ones as gate guards

How hard core is that

[MrBrightSi]

Welshbeef said:

TSAR bomb is the daddy and another they never tested would be multiples of that.

There was a bit of a (intentional) gaffe on RT last year I think where details of a Russian cobolt bomb/torpedo was caught during filming. They're scary things if produced.

[Otispunkmeyer]

dcb said:

Mike_Mac said:

Pffft! That was nothing... back in WW2 before the US went Nuclear the RAF was dropping these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Slam_(bomb)

ETA - as Deptford Draylons has already pointed out!!

+1.

British RAF was doing this 70+ years ago, thanks to the wizardry of Barnes-Wallis.

Give the US propensity for Blue-on-Blue damage time after time
after time. any troops in the area must have been pretty worried.

They may weigh similar, but the MOAB has nearly double the packing weight and of course likely uses a better explosive. (And fk me the keyboard on this galaxy s7 is dog st).

[Jonmx]

MrBrightSi said:

There was a bit of a (intentional) gaffe on RT last year I think where details of a Russian cobolt bomb/torpedo was caught during filming. They're scary things if produced.

80 ft long, range of 30 miles and a theoretical payload of 100 megatons. The idea being that it's launched from 30 miles out and then detonates somewhere like San Francisco Bay. A really nasty weapon.
As someone else said, it would be nice if we could dedicate our resources towards helping one another. Unfortunately, human nature will never allow that to happen.
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2016/12...

[anonymous-user]

Jonmx said:

MrBrightSi said:

There was a bit of a (intentional) gaffe on RT last year I think where details of a Russian cobolt bomb/torpedo was caught during filming. They're scary things if produced.

80 ft long, range of 30 miles and a theoretical payload of 100 megatons. The idea being that it's launched from 30 miles out and then detonates somewhere like San Francisco Bay. A really nasty weapon.
As someone else said, it would be nice if we could dedicate our resources towards helping one another. Unfortunately, human nature will never allow that to happen.
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2016/12...

From the linked article. . .

Speaking to the BBC, Konstantin Sivkov with the Russian Geopolitical Academy says a 100 megatons warhead could produce a tsunami up to 500 meters high, wiping out all living things 1,500 kilometers deep inside US territory.