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2004-11-08 Home Front: Tech

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Posted by Steve 2004-11-08 3:18:05 PM|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Good Morning, Tehran!"

Posted by Frank G 2004-11-08 3:38:28 PM|| 2004-11-08 3:38:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 "No pork or pork by-products were used in the making of this ordnance."

Posted by Anonymoose 2004-11-08 3:49:36 PM|| 2004-11-08 3:49:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Just think we could do with one of Barnes Wallis's Tallboys equipped with a GPS guidance system. Of couse the only way we'd be able to deploy it would probably be off the Wing pylons of the BUFF although it might fit in the bomb bay

http://www.lancastermuseum.ca/s,tallboy.html

Posted by Cheaderhead 2004-11-08 4:18:37 PM|| 2004-11-08 4:18:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 cool link, CH - interesting stuff!

Posted by Frank G 2004-11-08 4:33:55 PM|| 2004-11-08 4:33:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 one of Barnes Wallis's Tallboys equipped with a GPS guidance system.
Cheaderhead, I think that's exactly what they are building. If I'm not mistaken, the B-52 was originally designed to take one of these in the bomb bay. Saw another story some where in the past that this MOP would be designed to fit in the B-2.

Posted by Steve 2004-11-08 4:45:41 PM|| 2004-11-08 4:45:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 The idea about using the Tallboy or its big brother the Grand Slam is you don't have to re-invent the wheel just put a new set of hubcaps on it.

Posted by Cheaderhead 2004-11-08 5:13:10 PM|| 2004-11-08 5:13:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Tallboys weren't really designed to dropped from a subsonic bomber at 60,000 feet. That's enough to be hitting the ground at close to Mach 2.

Posted by Dishman 2004-11-08 5:37:43 PM|| 2004-11-08 5:37:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 is MOP easier or cheaper to produce and use than a modern nuclear bomb?

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2004-11-08 6:07:15 PM|| [http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/] 2004-11-08 6:07:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 In the case of Iran, I prefer using nukes so as to blur reponsibility...

"looks like your nuclear program had some problems...we don't have any comments on your accusations"

Posted by Frank G 2004-11-08 6:07:18 PM|| 2004-11-08 6:07:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 52 was not designed to carry it in the bay but outside the bay - sort of like an X2! It don't matter if it is outside or inside - it is a one time delivery ordanance with a speacial need target assigned to it - like a nuke site or a cave or a funny looking steel tower by a river in Europe!

Posted by Curtis LeMay 2004-11-08 6:38:40 PM|| 2004-11-08 6:38:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 A waste of tax payers money; they won't even use the MOAB in favorable conditions that would save even one of our troops life! Thses weapons are rapidly becoming 3rd tier tools; only deployed in cases of "high probable loss" to our side. Don't expect their use in Iraq, not enough insurgents will congregate in a one mile radius to make it cost effective!

Posted by smn 2004-11-08 7:11:48 PM|| 2004-11-08 7:11:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 smn, this one has Iran/NorK all over it, not Iraq

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-08 7:13:52 PM|| 2004-11-08 7:13:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 MOAB = sub nuke. 10-4 on the MOAB.

Posted by John Q. Citizen 2004-11-08 7:43:03 PM|| 2004-11-08 7:43:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 this one has Iran/NorK all over it, not Iraq

Thing is, showing a willingness to use it in Iraq, plus the effect that such use would provide in terms of visual evidence of the destruction caused might influence the NorK situation in a positive way.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-08 8:04:56 PM|| 2004-11-08 8:04:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Two words. MUSHROOM CLOUD.

Posted by Edward Yee 2004-11-08 8:18:39 PM|| 2004-11-08 8:18:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 BAR, Given their experience at Bam, how coule the mullahs prove it wasn't an earthquake?

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-08 8:33:32 PM|| 2004-11-08 8:33:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 BAR, Given their experience at Bam, how could the mullahs prove it wasn't an earthquake?

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-08 8:33:43 PM|| 2004-11-08 8:33:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Hmm, the thing would leave a small mushroom cloud. The idjits would think we've nuked them.

Imagine the fun that could be had with the world wide press if the Air Force immediately came out and denied using nukes that leave no radioactivity. "This is as stupid as the earthquake machine we tested, I mean, didn't test in Bam last year."

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2004-11-08 9:21:50 PM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/] 2004-11-08 9:21:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 MOP?

Muslims Oughta Pray?

Posted by OldSpook 2004-11-08 9:44:35 PM|| 2004-11-08 9:44:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Lauurence, its off to psyops with you!

The question is, if a MOP were used on a nuclear site, whether military or civilian, wouldn't the resulting explosion release radiation from the material already on-site? Separate from the non-radiating mushroom cloud that would result when such a large bomb is exploded, I mean. So nobody would believe that we hadn't used nukes, if that is indeed the case.

Posted by trailing wife 2004-11-08 9:47:13 PM|| 2004-11-08 9:47:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Nah it aint the radiation so much (although from ground zero that will be significantly in evidence) as the actual double flash, and its seismic signature, thats a unique distinction of all nuclear bombs.

Posted by Valentine 2004-11-08 9:51:46 PM|| 2004-11-08 9:51:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Heh. A MOP would be a dirty bomb as a byproduct of bombing a U235 centrifuge site. That will get their attention, all right. Put a Hex on them [/pun]

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-11-08 9:53:07 PM|| 2004-11-08 9:53:07 PM|| Front Page Top

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