US drops largest non-nuclear bomb in history: report

[babylonsister]

WTF???


http://thehill.com/policy/defense/328684-us-drops-largest-non-nuclear-bomb-in-history-report

US drops largest non-nuclear bomb in history: report
By Ellen Mitchell - 04/13/17 12:46 PM EDT

The U.S. military has for first time dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb in combat against ISIS in Afghanistan, CNN reported Thursday.

The Defense Department dropped a Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB) on an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) tunnel target, the report said.

The MOAB, which has a blast radius of one mile, replaced a similar Vietnam-era bomb known as Daisy Cutter in the late 2000s. It is sometimes said that the acronym is short for Mother Of All Bombs.

The bomb was dropped in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, CNN reported.

DEVELOPING

[MineralMan]

1. Bomb Fall Down. Go BOOM!

I wonder what the target was and whether the bomb was effective in destroying it.

[Xipe Totec]

5. The target was North Korea. Yet another bounce the rubble message. nt

[Renew Deal]

8. I agree

[kentuck]

10. Yep.

"We don't have to go nuclear to blow up your ass, little man."

That was the message.

[gratuitous]

14. As the old saying goes . . .

If you want to send a message, call Western Union. Bombs are a notoriously poor way to send messages, open to widely varying interpretations and they have an unfortunate tendency to commit crimes against humanity when they are detonated indiscriminately.

[babylonsister]

6. I heard they were targeting a tunnel, but with this group,

they probably don't need a target.

[Doreen]

9. Target was civilians as it always is.

[EX500rider]

16. Lots of civilians living in ISIS tunnel complexes up in the Mts are there?

...doubtful

[Doreen]

18. I was being facetious.

[MichMary]

26. If you were being facetious

then I don't get the joke. I don't think cracking jokes about targeting civilians is funny.

[Doreen]

29. It also is called sarcasm and mine was in line with

hateful sarcasm from what they are doing. I in no way find it funny.

[MichMary]

31. Sorry . . .

I feel like I've been on edge for--oh, five months or so. I bet a lot of us have been "snippier" than usual.

[Doreen]

32. I understand.

I hate the feeling of waking up having absolutely no clue of what the dripping piece of shit has done or is plans on doing.

[rock]

33. Many of us find it fitting

I'm sure that's how Trump & Bunch think of it.

[get the red out]

2. The news media will want to kiss Trump

Everybody loves massive explosions on TV.

I hope they did some expert targeting.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

3. Maria Bartiromo - It was an unmanned bomb - brilliant

[babylonsister]

4. Jeebus. I wonder if Ivanka asked him to so she could

watch the explosion.

[ret5hd]

7. manned bomb: (you already know what it is, don't you?)

[MineralMan]

19. Not the brightest star in the newsroom.

Nope.

[octoberlib]

11. Trump gets praise when he drops

bombs. I expect a lot more of them

[OneBlueDotBama]

12. Vlad's Got a Bigger One.

The bomb is reportedly four times as powerful as the US military's GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb (whose official military acronym "MOAB" is often unofficially rendered as "Mother of All Bombs&quot . This Russian device would therefore be the most powerful conventional (non-nuclear) weapon in the world.[1] The veracity of Russia's claims concerning the weapon's size and power have been questioned by US defense analysts.[2]

"FOAB" was successfully field-tested in the late evening of September 11, 2007.[3] The new weapon is to replace several smaller types of nuclear bombs in its arsenal.[4]

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

[HAB911]

13. I think it was partially aimed at Kim Jong Un

[HAB911]

15. The Russian version of the MOAB read more: http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.783372

conveniently nicknamed the "Father of All Bombs" is a bomber-delivered thermobaric weapon. Moscow claims the FOAB is four times as powerful as America's MOAB.

According to the website "How Stuff Works," a parachute pulls the behemoth bomb on a pallet out of the back of a cargo plane. The pallet and the bomb then separate so the MOAB can be directed to its target by a satellite guidance system. The latter feature makes it one of the world's largest "smart bombs."

read more: http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.783372

[EX500rider]

17. "US drops largest non-nuclear bomb in history"

The Grand Slam bomb dropped on German sub pens in WWII was 22,000lbs.

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

[Orrex]

20. I thought that "largest" was a statement about the bomb's yield

Rather than its gross tonnage. No?

[BannonsLiver]

21. Brian Williams just creamed his jeans.

[Orrex]

24. He dropped one out of his helicopter before it was shot down in Iraq

[Yavin4]

22. Does this mean we're winning? Is this winning?

Are we at war with rocks and concrete? If so, I like our chances.

[bdamomma]

23. WTF

is this imbecile doing??? is he really trying to provoke WW3. I don't find this comical at all. Stupid a$$ man.

[Johnny2X2X]

25. Innocents

How much you want to bet this had zero to do with ISIS and he was bombing the opposition of whatever the next despot he wants to run things over there?

The last thing Trump wants to do is hurt ISIS, they're his boogie man.

And Trump campaigned out of both sides of his mouth on using force depending on his mood and the audience. We will be in ever expanding wars as long as he's in charge.

[katmondoo]

27. How many babies were killed?

[Demtexan]

28. Right on.

Reporters need to ask these questions.

[heaven05]

30. I bet boy-potus, bannon and miller

don't care and are not the type of human being to ever care about....collateral damage....

[smirkymonkey]

34. I'm beginning to think he's developing a taste for this.

If so, it's only going to escalate. He's not going to back off now.