Urgent Bunker Buster Improvements Ordered
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-13/bunker-buster-bomb-improvements-sought-by-pentagon-win-approval.html
US is preparing to attack Iran. I still don’t see this happening. Especially not before a presidential election. The ripples this would create would be vast. Regardless they are preparing.
The Pentagon won congressional approval to shift $81.6 million in funds improve the military’s largest conventional weapon, the 30,000-pound Boeing Co. Massive Ordnance Penetrator,
Pentagon spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Elizabeth Robbins said today in an e-mail. ‘It was an urgent request,”
The move to improve the bomb shortly after the Air Force took delivery may have been triggered by Iran’s announcement Jan. 9 that it would begin uranium enrichment at the Fordow facility near Qom that’s tunneled into mountains.
The Pentagon request to upgrade the bomb was submitted 11 days after the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed the enrichment activity. The location at Qom is 90 meters (295 feet) under rock
The Air Force took delivery in September of the first of 20 bombs built to fit in the B-2 stealth bomber. The bomb is six times bigger than the 5,000-pound (2,268 kilogram) bunker-buster that the U.S. Air Force and the Israeli Air Force have to attack deeply buried nuclear, biological or chemical sites.
The 20.5-foot-long bomb carries more than 5,300 pounds of explosives and is guided by Global Positioning System satellites
So a standard Bunker buster is 5,300.
A daisy cutter is 15,000 pounds. These used to be the largest conventional bombs the US had. Nothing bigger then a daisy survived these. http://inventors.about.com/od/militaryhistoryinventions/a/Daisy_Cutter.htm
Then they created the 20,000lb MOAB. MOTHER OF ALL BOMBS! Which was created for Iraq. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43/B_Massive_Ordnance_Air_Blast_bomb
Now they are up to 30,000 for busting up Iranian bunkers. When it comes to blowing stuff up we are the best.
US is preparing to attack Iran. I still don’t see this happening. Especially not before a presidential election. The ripples this would create would be vast. Regardless they are preparing.
The Pentagon won congressional approval to shift $81.6 million in funds improve the military’s largest conventional weapon, the 30,000-pound Boeing Co. Massive Ordnance Penetrator,
Pentagon spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Elizabeth Robbins said today in an e-mail. ‘It was an urgent request,”
The move to improve the bomb shortly after the Air Force took delivery may have been triggered by Iran’s announcement Jan. 9 that it would begin uranium enrichment at the Fordow facility near Qom that’s tunneled into mountains.
The Pentagon request to upgrade the bomb was submitted 11 days after the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed the enrichment activity. The location at Qom is 90 meters (295 feet) under rock
The Air Force took delivery in September of the first of 20 bombs built to fit in the B-2 stealth bomber. The bomb is six times bigger than the 5,000-pound (2,268 kilogram) bunker-buster that the U.S. Air Force and the Israeli Air Force have to attack deeply buried nuclear, biological or chemical sites.
The 20.5-foot-long bomb carries more than 5,300 pounds of explosives and is guided by Global Positioning System satellites
So a standard Bunker buster is 5,300.
A daisy cutter is 15,000 pounds. These used to be the largest conventional bombs the US had. Nothing bigger then a daisy survived these. http://inventors.about.com/od/militaryhistoryinventions/a/Daisy_Cutter.htm
Then they created the 20,000lb MOAB. MOTHER OF ALL BOMBS! Which was created for Iraq. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43/B_Massive_Ordnance_Air_Blast_bomb
Now they are up to 30,000 for busting up Iranian bunkers. When it comes to blowing stuff up we are the best.
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February 21, 2012
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