If it bounces, it has malfunctioned since it is designed to explode in the air above the target.
Afghanistan
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If it bounces, it has malfunctioned since it is designed to explode in the air above the target.
See! Inferior product. Williams will be disappointed once he sees a bouncing bomb in action.
Still it can't bounce.
And I think we all agree that is important.
"sings tune to dam busters"
If there's something strange in your neighborhood
Who you gonna call......DAM BUSTERS!
They won't give up yet sultan, they'll push the black banners prophecy until they raise a force of some kind.
I wonder how much this bomb cost, how many Isis it killed vs civilians and who is on the board of the company that makes it.
Most likely it was built before Trump took office either under Bush or Obama.
And this is who builds it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McAlester_Army_Ammunition_Plant
It was first tested back in 2003 so well before Obama & Trump. Likely to be a Bush or late Clinton effort, although I seriously doubt stuff like this changes much from administration to administration.
Clinton was gone by 2003. The weapon in question the specific bomb was most likely built during the Bush or Obama years
Edit; Article linked a few posts down indicate the inventory was bought in 2011.
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Dam, now I'm singing ghost busters to myself
I saw on Twitter that it cost $314 million, no idea if true but that sounds totally ridiculous
edit: says here $15.7 million, sounds more like it
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/moab-airburst-bomb-explanation-2017-4?r=US&IR=T
edit 2: Seems that the first figure is the cost of the entire program.
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Used to live near there. Could feel the tests and 'disposals' from miles and miles away...
Says they were bought in 2011.
15.7 million? feck. The shit that country could do with the money they throw away on killing arabs. Insane.
Any news on civilian casualties?
So far they are saying 0 Civilians killed and 36 ISIS dead.
Given the US' usual definition of enemy combatants though that figure could be anywhere from 36 civilians dead to 0.
Must have been pretty remote if there's no videos knocking about
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it was a thermal (?) video of the MOAB explosion.
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I really wish the US political/military establishment would stop releasing these videos whenever they take significant actions - are we all supposed to f*cking impressed by oh-so-techy killing? War is not a videogame or a movie.
And yet others were asking about video evidence. but yeah we can live without the videos or the bombings
That looked like a farming valley from the images
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ps-non-nuclear-bomb-afghanistan-islamic-state
....Dawlat Waziri, an Afghan ministry spokesman said of Thursday’s strike: “No civilian has been hurt and only the base, which Daesh used to launch attacks in other parts of the province, was destroyed.”......
....Dawlat Waziri, an Afghan ministry spokesman said of Thursday’s strike: “No civilian has been hurt and only the base, which Daesh used to launch attacks in other parts of the province, was destroyed.”......
The way this bombing was staged as a worldwide PR coup, you'd expect the Americans to have taken great care making sure their intelligence was 100% accurate. If it turns out that civilians were killed, it would have the exact opposite of the desired propaganda effect, especially after so much boasting about the 'mother of all bombs'. Still no guarantee that nothing can go wrong like it did so often before, but everything else would really surprise me.
Other than that, what a horrible weapon.
Other than that, what a horrible weapon.
I've no idea about the truth. However, US and Afghan officials are bound to underplay any harm to the population. Any talk of innocents dying would cause the inevitable backlash.
Probably just a heads up for Kim fatty the third as to what's going to be dropped on nk bases if they go ahead with a nuke / missile test... Or is it just me who finds the timing a bit of a coincidence
Afghan officials are generally pretty vocal about civilian casualties. I've dealt with the governors of Nangarhar and Kunar in the past and they definitely didn't hold back.
Maybe it was just a show of strength on a completely remote place. ISIS being just a narrative. Afghanistan is one of few countries where dropping this bomb is possible for US at the moment.
Wonder how they could identify the number of dead. From what i've read the damage from the blast would incinerate those people in the vicinity.
I wondered this, especially as one report said they were in tunnels.
Above ground maybe in the tunnels it would not be incineration more deaths from the pressure waves
Lefty fringe site, Raouls favorite type. But source being Wikileaks.
Tunnels the yanks just destroyed with mother of all bombs were built by the CIA.
http://muricatoday.com/tunnels-us-16-million-destroying-built-cia/
Tunnels the yanks just destroyed with mother of all bombs were built by the CIA.
http://muricatoday.com/tunnels-us-16-million-destroying-built-cia/
Ok. Scary to think what the blast did to the bodies.
