Radius damage of the MOAB bomb.

[kstewart33]

Last edited Thu Apr 13, 2017, 03:43 PM - Edit history (1)

Radius damage:

Up to 1,000 yards: Obliterates everything.
Up to 1 mile: Knocks people tents, light buildings, cars and jeeps over.
Up to 1.7 miles: shock wave kills people, causes severe damage to buildings, equipment, blows trucks and tanks off the road.
Up to 2 miles: causes deafness.
Up to 5 miles: shakes ground, breaks windows.
Up to 30 miles: 10,000 foot high mushroom cloud is visible.

Source: Dr. Dalia Fahmy, professor of political science at LIUBrooklyn and Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Policy.

Link: https://twitter.com/DaliaFFahmy

[hack89]

1. In a mountain valley that would pretty devastating. nt

[Atman]

2. This doesn't make sense.

At one mile it just knocks over tents and jeeps, but at 1.7 miles it kills people and damages buildings and blows trucks off the road?

[JonLP24]

5. The bomb sets off something like an earth quake.

There have been mafia bombs in Italy were so powerful it registered on the Richter scale.

This is obviously a more powerful bomb. It would easily cause PTSD and head injuries at the very least for those in vicinity of the blast.

[Atman]

7. I think you missed my point...

How come at 1 mile it only knocks over tents and jeeps, but at 1.7 miles it kills people?

[aikoaiko]

9. I thought the same thing -- perhaps the OP author can source the info and we can verify

[PoliticAverse]

17. Apparently it is more important that people are knocked over than that they are dead. n/t

[B2G]

18. Words out of my mouth. nt

[MADem]

3. Do you have a link to the source of this material? nt

[ladjf]

4. This might be a test for use elsewhere. nt

[louis-t]

6. Good thing it only kills bad people.

[HopeAgain]

8. Is this a WMD??

What kind of precedence are we setting here? I'm less and less sure that I want to be identified as an American...

[NCTraveler]

11. It is not a WMD by definition.

Not saying it should or shouldn't be called a WMD. It's my understanding that the MOAB is somewhat conventional.

[HopeAgain]

14. How is WMD defined?

I'm curious if there is a definition in treaties or something. Surely the ability to demolish everything within a mile radius (2 mile diameter) is a extraordinary weapon. I would assume anyone within a couple miles is now head injured and or deaf. I think it is unethical to only assume that nuclear weapons should be classified as WMDs.

[NCTraveler]

21. .

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1EODB_enUS545US545&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=Weapon+of+Mass+Destruction

[sarisataka]

16. No it is not

Weapon of mass destruction is a colloquial term that is not defined in any treaty. It is used to group the large-scale indiscriminate weapons such as nuclear, biological or chemical weapons. There is even disagreement there as some argue radiological, ie dirty nukes that spread radioactive material with conventional explosives, should be included even though their actual damage radius is very small.

As impressive as this bomb is, although the OP I believe has confused this with the Russian father of all bombs which is 4 times larger, is a mere firecracker compared to a small nuclear weapon such as that used on Hiroshima. This bomb detonates with the equivalent of 11 tons of TNT; Hiroshima bomb was approximately 15000 tons of TNT.

[PoliticAverse]

20. Note that the original use of "weapon of mass destruction" concerned conventional bombs. n/t

[old guy]

10. Just another wag the dog attempt.

[underpants]

13. I was wondering about the concussive impact. 2 miles. Yikes

[LittleBlue]

15. Well let's hope the dead are just ISIS scum

I can't be bothered to feel sympathy for them, or their supporters.

[Baconator]

19. Excellent odds based on where they dropped it.

[pansypoo53219]

22. how much does each cost & does turnip have stock?