MOAB bomb tested

[Dr Mordrid]

1:00 pm @ Eglin AFB in Floridas panhandle. Mushroom cloud visible for many miles....



21,000 pounds. Note the folding fins and satellite guidance package on the rear. Video is supposed to be coming from the DoD later this afternoon.

Dr. Mordrid

[Jammrock]

Big badda boom!

Any pics of the explosion yet?

Jammrock

[Dr Mordrid]

Looking hard.

I'd have given my eye teeth to see that test (from a safe distance)

Dr. Mordrid

[Admiral]

Mushroom cloud !?

What exactly is a MOAB bomb ?

[Tjalfe]

Mother Of All Bombs?

[Ant]

Did someone report seeing Bin Laden on vacation in Florida?

[Admiral]

Originally posted by tjalfe
Mother Of All Bombs?

Well, thanks

conventional or nuke ?

[Paddy]

Originally posted by tjalfe
Mother Of All Bombs?

LOL!

see http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=40272

[Brian R.]

Massive Ordnance Air Burst

[Admiral]

see http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=40272 [/B]

aha

(seemed rather odd testing nukes in Florida)

[Paddy]

well it gets rid of the tourists!

[SpiralDragon]

i thought the idea was to get rid of terorists...... but seriously thos of you proud of this acheevment think again.... that is just one more WMD to add to the list... the world is geting scarier.... i was thinking of imigrating to canada now i belive that pluto is a safer location...

[KRSESQ]

This is a kitchen match compared to some of the stuff in the world's arsenals. Ironically, weapons like this were intended to make tactical nukes obsolete. All the punch, none of the fallout.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this bad boy have the same yield as the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombs (and weigh about the same)?

Kevin

[Jon P. Inghram]

Don't worry about "Weapons of Mass Destruction", the world is covered with natural explosives (Resurgent Calderas) that are more than capable of causing rather serious problems.

[Jon P. Inghram]

The Hiroshima bomb was roughly 15 kilotons, that's 30,000,000 pounds, THIRTY MILLION. That MOAB is in the 21000 pound range.