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2012-01-12 02:16:23 UTC
This new US bomb gives Iran something to think about. Isn't it amazing
how much top secret technology comes out when we need it? This bomb
makes a bunker buster look like a firecracker. The iranians are losing
scientists to car bombs and now their touted underground facilities
can't protect the personnel OR the program. They should quit before
they are sorry.. b&c
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November 17, 2011 | 7:15 am
The Air Force's Massive Ordnance Penetrator, developed by Boeing, is
more than 20 feet long, weighs in at 30,000 pounds (by comparison, the
"mother" GBU-43 MOAB is a trim 22,600 pounds) and is packed with 5,300
pounds of explosives.
The Air Force ordered 20, at a total cost of $314 million, and
started taking delivery in September. The Massive Ordnance Penetrator
(wonder if anyone calls it the MOP?) has one job: pulverize
underground enemy hide-outs. Hmmm, wonder which country we don't like
that has stuff hidden in underground bunkers?
From Times staff writer W.J. Hennigan's story:
"The Massive Ordnance Penetrator is a weapon system designed to
accomplish a difficult, complicated mission of reaching and destroying
our adversaries' weapons of mass destruction located in well-protected
facilities," Lt. Col. Melinda F. Morgan, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said
in a statement.
Experts took note of the fact that the military disclosed delivery
of the new bunker-busting bomb less than a week after a United Nations
agency warned that Iran was secretly working to develop a nuclear
weapon. That country is known to have hidden nuclear complexes that
are fortified with steel and concrete, and buried under mountains.
This week, Times columnist Doyle McManus wrote that both President
Obama and his Republican rivals have made similar statements on
Iran's quest for a nuclear weapon:
Obama and all the likely Republican nominees for president have
long said they consider a nuclear-capable Iran unacceptable. There's
no wiggle room in that word; no president could back down from that
warning without major damage to U.S. influence.
Obama has favored sanctions. The GOP's Mitt Romney has offered saber-
rattling, writing an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in which he said
that "I won't let Iran get nukes."
Romney's prescription? Increase military aid to Israel and send
more ships to the Persian Gulf to convince Iran that when the United
States threatens to use force, it means it.
Certainly the option of a non-nuclear weapon with such destructive
power seems a sensible precaution.
Iran's leaders now know that their nuclear facilities are at risk.
That, coupled with sanctions, might persuade them to abandon their
efforts to build the bomb. If not? Well, then the United States has
one big saber it can rattle.
how much top secret technology comes out when we need it? This bomb
makes a bunker buster look like a firecracker. The iranians are losing
scientists to car bombs and now their touted underground facilities
can't protect the personnel OR the program. They should quit before
they are sorry.. b&c
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November 17, 2011 | 7:15 am
The Air Force's Massive Ordnance Penetrator, developed by Boeing, is
more than 20 feet long, weighs in at 30,000 pounds (by comparison, the
"mother" GBU-43 MOAB is a trim 22,600 pounds) and is packed with 5,300
pounds of explosives.
The Air Force ordered 20, at a total cost of $314 million, and
started taking delivery in September. The Massive Ordnance Penetrator
(wonder if anyone calls it the MOP?) has one job: pulverize
underground enemy hide-outs. Hmmm, wonder which country we don't like
that has stuff hidden in underground bunkers?
From Times staff writer W.J. Hennigan's story:
"The Massive Ordnance Penetrator is a weapon system designed to
accomplish a difficult, complicated mission of reaching and destroying
our adversaries' weapons of mass destruction located in well-protected
facilities," Lt. Col. Melinda F. Morgan, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said
in a statement.
Experts took note of the fact that the military disclosed delivery
of the new bunker-busting bomb less than a week after a United Nations
agency warned that Iran was secretly working to develop a nuclear
weapon. That country is known to have hidden nuclear complexes that
are fortified with steel and concrete, and buried under mountains.
This week, Times columnist Doyle McManus wrote that both President
Obama and his Republican rivals have made similar statements on
Iran's quest for a nuclear weapon:
Obama and all the likely Republican nominees for president have
long said they consider a nuclear-capable Iran unacceptable. There's
no wiggle room in that word; no president could back down from that
warning without major damage to U.S. influence.
Obama has favored sanctions. The GOP's Mitt Romney has offered saber-
rattling, writing an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in which he said
that "I won't let Iran get nukes."
Romney's prescription? Increase military aid to Israel and send
more ships to the Persian Gulf to convince Iran that when the United
States threatens to use force, it means it.
Certainly the option of a non-nuclear weapon with such destructive
power seems a sensible precaution.
Iran's leaders now know that their nuclear facilities are at risk.
That, coupled with sanctions, might persuade them to abandon their
efforts to build the bomb. If not? Well, then the United States has
one big saber it can rattle.
