DC: The U.S. dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal on the Islamic State in Afghanistan Thursday, CNN reports.
The mission will mark the first time the bomb has been used in combat. The munition is nicknamed the “mother of all bombs” (MOAB) and weighs approximately 20,000 pounds.
Remember this?
“I’m going to bomb the shit out of them!”
Why not a BLU-113 for an underground facility?
Happy Easter ISIS!
Tony,
My guess is this is a big, spread out tunnel complex rather than a bunker, so a MOAB could cover all the air inlets at once to suck the air out and collapse the lungs, chests etc. of the vermin within.
Somewhere, 0bama is crying.
Video, or it didn’t happen!
… I know it happened. I just like seeing ISIS get blown up.
Turn ISIS into NONO
@Bongopoofter: More like WASWAS.
🙂
BOWING HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH BOMBING!! HAIL EL TRUMPO!!
good shit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43/B_Massive_Ordnance_Air_Blast
Heard as far away as NOKO.
When can we see the satellite image of the new landscaping?
If it creates a 300 meter crater, once the rains fill it with water will the locals call it Lake Moab or Lake ISIS?
The big question is how many were killed? Did they get the ring leaders?
Brian Williams was there reporting how Hillary ran through it.
If it vaporized anyone in the blast zone as is reported, we may never know who we got at T-minus zero. Oh well, at least some virgins up yonder were spared another night–this will not earn some goat-humper his maiden prize.
Once again CNN is wrong my . The BLU 57 weighs 30 000 pounds It is called the Massive Ordinance
penetrator. Designed for underground facilities in Iran and N Korea
GBU = God Brings Understanding
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HELLO!
Devastation at it finest
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-drops-mother-of-all-bombs-in-afghanistan-according-to-reports-2017-04-13
but wait there’s more.
Meet the TSAR Hydrogen Bomb Detonated by USSR (with sound)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PbZnZy1qr8
Will they ever release the video from the bomb itself showing how many Islam rats were scurrying about? I assume you wouldn’t build a bomb like that which wouldn’t have a camera uploading video.
You DoD guys can debate the technical fine points.
As a taxpayer, I’m happy to support this Easter Greeting, and “I approve this message.”
America is back.
Thank you God. May we be worthy.
Go Trump.
The bomb weighs 26,000 pounds. The need for laxatives in Afghanistan will go way down.
A MOAR
http://picpaste.com/MOAR_IOTW.jpg
B MOAB
Out go the lights
Change the name to FO MO.
Candygram Fo Mo! Candygram Fo Mo!
Phenry,
There was no one scurrying about. An ultrafine particulate mist and vapor does not scurry.
hanoverfist— Biran Williams was there, he said it knocked the wind out of him. But then he came to because he knew he had a duty to report. lol
Not sure if they were testing these things in my “backyard”, but we sure heard several series of loud percussions coming from the direction of TTR in the past weeks. Hope so. God bless the USA!!
They should let out the terrible truth about how the bomb was wrapped in 5000 lbs of Bacon. This created a swine aerosol to be carried across the region. Making mush of the rats in the tunnel is a bonus.
The bomb is itself a distraction from: Operation Oink-Drop, where the feral pigs from Texas ate darted and wake up in river valleys all over the middle east.
When I first heard about this I was concerned like, “Is it okay that we did this?” And then I realized that it was just the after effects of a two term Obama presidency talking. Of COURSE Trump shouldn’t have to announce it, and of course he did the right thing. Obama was so power hungry and drone bomb happy, that I was almost triggered for a second there. Man, it’s good to feel like an American again. 🙂
It’s about friggin time to go after the bad guys in no uncertain terms. I’d say we targeted a whole bunch of bad guys and Yamamotoed them. A reference to the deliberate targeting and killing of Japanese Admiral Yamamoto during the Battle of Midway in World War 2. Sooner or later the muzzies are going to get the message their time is up and they can’t run or hide anymore because the new Sheriff Trump and his Deputy James Mattis are going to grease these bastards and they mean business. What’s wrong with that?
OK.
What was the cost of the bomb, the mission, and all the other shit compared to 36 dead ragheads (more would have been better – say a thousand, or so?)?
Bomb probably would have been better used over Peshawar, Kabul, or Tehran.
Not trying to rain on President Trump’s victorious parade, but doesn’t anyone in DC do cost/benefit analysis? Obviously a step in the proper direction (Making America Great Again) and a direct refutation of Obola’s treasonous acts in the Middle and Far East.
izlamo delenda est …
@Tim
You are qualified to ask the question but are you qualified to yourself to understand the answer?
Body count cost benefit analysis is only 1 part of a 3 dimensional formula.
Remember Vietnam. Only you can answer the qualification question to you.
ROI (Return on Investment) MOAB GBU-43/B Worldwide Press Coverage = Priceless
Tim’s Vermeer,
Either you have no sense of humor, or you don’t understand snark.
I am qualified (in my own mind) to both ask and answer the question, or I wouldn’t have asked.
See how that works?
And you offer an explanation of a 3-D formula while giving a 1-D example.
3 Unknowns, 3 Equations.
1 Unknown, 1 Equation.
(if we conceive of variables as Dimensions – e.g. x, y, z, t, … &c. without getting into vector, tensor, and Riemann space)
But I do appreciate your input, and it has convinced me that my sense of humor is (somewhat) deficient.
izlamo delenda est …
Surgical strike, as in Obamacare.
Big and messy.
Go Big T!