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30,000-Lb. Bomb On Fast Track For Deployment
coondoggie writes "Published reports today say the Pentagon is rattling swords in the direction of North Korea and Iran by speeding the development a 20-foot, 30,000-lb bomb known as Massive Ordnance Penetrator. This weapon is intended to annihilate underground bunkers and other hardened sites (read: long-range missile or underground nuke development) up to 200 ft. underground. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency, which has overseen the development of this monster since 2007, says it is designed to be carried aboard B-2 and B-52 bombers and deployed at high altitudes, from which it would strike the ground at speeds well beyond twice the speed of sound to penetrate the below-ground target." Reuters has more specifics on the MOP's chances for deployment by 2010, and the detail that the bomb's load of explosives weighs in at 5,300 lbs.
The US military budget does not need to be this big. This has to stop.
. . . or more scarily sending Bill Clinton on a reccy!
Wake me up when the human race does something impressive.
Ooooo, you are SO cool.
He got a big penetration too.
30000 lbs ... how many obese Americans does it take to reach 30000lbs? Can you fit this many on a jumbo jet?
I don't think a country in which a person is forced by law to work 60% of their working hours as an unpaid slave to others can be called civilized.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
Ok let me rephrase: I don't think a country in which a person is forced by law to work nearly 60% of their working hours as an unpaid slave to others or else leave the country can be called civilized.
Happy?
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
Clearly, some /. mods did not read further than the repartee in this comment.
The /. moderation has seen some serious flaws: modding serious stuff as funny and deplorable stuff as insightful.
Wow. Just wow. I have seen a lot of stupid replies to my comment, but congrats, mspohr, you win. You packed so much stupid into two sentences that I don't even know where to start... Cowboy delusion? Flowers for the liberators? I am incredibly anti-interventionist, and I think the Iraq War is one of the worst decisions this nation has ever made (and I thought so when I first heard that it was on the horizon). The precise problem in Iraq is that it was a police action, and that we pulled almost all of our punches. We set unattainable goals (not even sure what they are anymore). If our goal in Iraq had been to just go in and decimate them, and we pulled no punches, the war would have been over in about 30 minutes. I made not statement as to what we should do, only what we could do. We have enough nuclear weapons to turn North Korea into a sheet of glass by 10 AM today. This is a fact. There is absolutely no disputing this. I obviously know all of the ramifications, and again, am making no statement about what we ought to do, just what we are capable of. So please, try to address the actual content of the comment next time, rather than just vomiting out a random mess of thoughts that are currently passing through your simian mind.
To the haters: You can't win. If you mod me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine
Wow, Pudge taking the flamebait.
Never seen the /. badge before =)
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