One year ago, ICE raided multiple chicken plants in Mississippi, arresting hundreds of illegal aliens. And at 300 feet from ground zero, even heavily built concrete structures will be severely damaged or destroyed. New York governor Andrew Cuomo rejected calls for an independent investigation into deaths of coronavirus patients in state nursing homes, saying such an investigation would be "political." Foundation for Economic Education It was coasting on the more or less good governance of its prior two mayors and on its ancestral role as the global nexus of finance and capital. Translated into English, the destructive power of an explosion diminishes very, very, very rapidly with distance in open space.
That its first use may not have destroyed every cave or tunnel near ground zero does not mean that the MOAB is not an effective weapon. The designers’ goal was to produce the most intense non-nuclear airborne blast possible for a given weight and size — while still being deliverable by plane — at a reasonable cost and with precision-guided accuracy.
A CBSNews headline screamed that the United States dropped a massive GBU-43 bomb, the largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan over some alleged ISIS or Daesh targets.
posted on Sep, 11 2004 @ 01:51 AM link . Even the 1 million pounds of TNT detonated by the U.S. Navy in the In terms of shaping the battlefield, it has been posited that the MOAB’s massive explosions are so much larger than other weapons that it takes “Also of interest is that the pictures and video that we have so far do not show any significant cratering. Many were the laments, in the Giuliani-Bloomberg era, that the city was “too sanitized,” “too gentrified,” “too boring,” “anodyne,” “suburban.” Often you’d hear people saying, or declaiming, that their ...
The state has seen over 32,000 deaths from coronavirus, with at least 6,500 of those deaths among residents of nursing ... * Up to 1 mile: Knocks people, tents, light buildings, cars and jeeps over within 1-mile radius. As a rough estimate, you can pretty much halve these numbers for the MOP.
One year ago, ICE raided multiple chicken plants in Mississippi, arresting hundreds of illegal aliens. This is really powerfull weapon. But using it as an air-burst weapon would be a serious misuse of a very expensive asset.For more details on blast effects at distance, see the following table.Assuming a MOAB was detonated right on the surface in the kind of rocky terrain making up the surface of the ISIS complex that was attacked, what kind of crater would we expect?
That it did not produce significant cratering, or any crater at all, means that it is unlikely that even relatively shallow tunnels were collapsed — History has taught us that taking out tunnels and caves is extremely difficult and usually requires feet the on ground. According to the Air Force, the MOP can penetrate The MOP is definitely impressive, but given that its effective blast wave, after bursting its casing, is only going to be around one-sixth of that of the MOAB, it will not be nearly as effective in scouring the surface of structures as the MOAB.
page: 1. Buried charges can generate the most severe amounts of ground shock.Clearly then, the MOAB, which was not designed to be a penetrating-type bomb nor optimized to produce ground shock, is not the ideal weapon for crushing tunnels. Taking ‘shock and awe’ to the next level — an analysis of the MOAB’s effectiveness. This strongly suggest that the MOAB was detonated far enough above the ground to be considered a pure air burst. Short of the liberal use of tactical nukes, including deep penetrating nukes, there is no silver bullet for taking out caves and tunnel complexes. The MOAB bomb. Finally, we have relatively few of them, about 20, so the MOAB should only be used when there is a chance of taking out truly high value targets.Still, assuming the unit cost is somewhere near $170,000, the MOAB, used judiciously, delivers more bang for the buck than what we have typically been getting from our defense contractors. Kat Timpf explains why a 16-year-old Maryland girl shouldn't be charged with child-porn distribution after making a video of herself. This is enough to destroy or damage even heavily built concrete structures. A weapon like the MOAB does not change that fact. National Review’s Jim Geraghty recently told us “20 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Susan Rice.”