Society MOAB (mother of all bombs) testing video

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here's a test of an 18k lb pound. apparently, we just dropped a 21k lb bomb on some ISIS tunnels in eastern Afghanistan...
 

Rambo John J

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the rich get richer every bomb tested/dropped/sold...

doesn't matter if necessary or not

oh well
 

Zeph

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These thermobaric weapons are scary. If you're in an enclosed space when one of these explodes, because they use the air around you as fuel for the explosion, they rip the air out of your lungs causing massive damage. Often if you aren't even caught in the blast you will drown in your own blood.
 

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damn, how big is the kill zone?

didn't we pull out of Afghanistan? we're still there??
 

Zeph

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damn, how big is the kill zone?

didn't we pull out of Afghanistan? we're still there??
Afghan war never stopped. Just SOF and Afghan government troops against Taliban against ISIS. Each control different areas.
 

benjo0101

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here's a test of an 18k lb pound. apparently, we just dropped a 21k lb bomb on some ISIS tunnels in eastern Afghanistan...
Please clarify the unit and size... Not for any reason. Just. My engineering degree brain vomits when I see this.

I always wonder how people get into certain careers. This is one of them. How did you get into designing completely destructive bombs with one use? Pure unrivaled destruction.

Moreover how does one start an arms business with this in mind. Just imagine.
 

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Please clarify the unit and size... Not for any reason. Just. My engineering degree brain vomits when I see this.

I always wonder how people get into certain careers. This is one of them. How did you get into designing completely destructive bombs with one use? Pure unrivaled destruction.

Moreover how does one start an arms business with this in mind. Just imagine.
a 9500 kilogram bomb
 

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That's not true. That's the maximum blast radius, but the maximum blast radius is not deadly. Here's the moab kill radius.


For reference this is little boy's radius (dropped on hiroshima)
oh all places, y'all keep heading to ground zero...

cant we layer this over florda or something?
 

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These thermobaric weapons are scary. If you're in an enclosed space when one of these explodes, because they use the air around you as fuel for the explosion, they rip the air out of your lungs causing massive damage. Often if you aren't even caught in the blast you will drown in your own blood.
Good.
 

Freeloading Rusty

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So this $300,000,000 bomb only killed 36 ISIS members? That's an expensive head count, I hope they were all high up members with those costs per body.
 

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damn, how big is the kill zone?

didn't we pull out of Afghanistan? we're still there??
LOL...we used 911 to get free pass to all of the Middle East....Rich in natural resources and big money to be harvested off the Poppy production

Never gonna leave
 

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do we really believe they got 36 "enemies"?

All that really matters is that the bomb is a success and more need to be made...amirite?
 

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So this $300,000,000 bomb only killed 36 ISIS members? That's an expensive head count, I hope they were all high up members with those costs per body.
If they were even there at all.
Probably just a few goats and guy in a 10 foot wide cave.