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2004-10-14 Iraq-Jordan

U.S. tests urban bomb, destroys insurgents' building in Faluja

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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-10-14 12:03:56 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Thereâs a slight shake in the jet as the bomb is released

Hmmm, never knew that.

Posted by Rafael 2004-10-14 12:47:47 AM|| 2004-10-14 12:47:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 How lovely. Kinder, gentler, more sensitive bombs. It's interesting to see weapons getting smaller and more precise rather than bigger and more destructive. I look forward to the day when a fly-sized bomb flies into a Zarqawi-sized ear and makes a really tiny brain explode in a big red cloud of vapor.

Posted by SteveS 2004-10-14 1:00:13 AM|| 2004-10-14 1:00:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 SteveS - LOL! Excellent!!!

Posted by .com 2004-10-14 1:06:56 AM|| 2004-10-14 1:06:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 9.9 SteveS! PMAM!

Pink Mist Attack Munitions

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-10-14 1:18:12 AM|| 2004-10-14 1:18:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 SteveS:

you assume that by removing their brains they would act differently.

Posted by PlanetDan 2004-10-14 9:13:28 AM|| 2004-10-14 9:13:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Heard awhile back they are adapting jdam attachments for 250lb bombs,just the right size for taking out a house.

Posted by Raptor 2004-10-14 11:52:50 AM|| 2004-10-14 11:52:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Raptor, you'll see those soon enough. Or, to be more accurate, THEY will see those soon enough. Problem is with adjusting to the ballistics and sizing of the round.

Anything below that, and a 500 pound concrete blivet with JDAM gear fitted to it would suffice, as long as heat and overpressure were not needed (i.e. triggering secondaries). 3 or so rounds each of 500 pounds of steel cased concrete at 600 miles an hour is a pretty hard hit to any small building.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-10-14 12:10:29 PM|| 2004-10-14 12:10:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Fallujah Craters... Next great tourist site after the ruins of Babylon...

Steve S. - I look forward to the day when a fly-sized bomb flies into a Zarqawi-sized ear and makes a really tiny brain explode in a big red cloud of vapor.

Tested on watermelons?

Posted by BigEd 2004-10-14 12:48:53 PM|| 2004-10-14 12:48:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#9
#8 Fallujah Craters... Next great tourist site after the ruins of Babylon... Steve S. - I look forward to the day when a fly-sized bomb flies into a Zarqawi-sized ear and makes a really tiny brain explode in a big red cloud of vapor. Tested on watermelons?.

I'll bet the Gunny from the Histroy Channel would volunteer to be the guideance officer.

Posted by Cheaderhead 2004-10-14 5:00:03 PM|| 2004-10-14 5:00:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Finally the democrats and mike moore will shut up about "oh but we're killing civilians! Oh those evil US Soldiers"
Damm liberals....

Posted by Quarterdeck 2004-10-14 5:04:24 PM|| 2004-10-14 5:04:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 ...as long as heat and overpressure were not needed (i.e. triggering secondaries).

Given the present combination of targets (personnel and munitions), the 250-pounder is going to be the round of choice.

Posted by Pappy 2004-10-14 8:21:11 PM|| 2004-10-14 8:21:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Swing low, sweet JDAM,
Coming for to carry me home,
Swing low, sweet JDAM,
Coming for to carry me home.

I looked over Jordan, and what did I see?
Coming for to carry me home,
A band of Marines coming after me,
Coming for to carry me home.

Swing low, sweet JDAM,
Coming for to carry me home,
Swing low, sweet JDAM,
Coming for to carry me home.

If you 'splodey before I do,
Coming for to carry me home,
Tell all my raisins Iâm coming, too.
Coming for to carry me home.

Swing low, sweet JDAM,
Coming for to carry me home,
Swing low, sweet JDAM,
Coming for to carry me home.

Iâm sometimes solid and sometimes ground round,
Coming for to carry me home,
But still my soul is hell-bound,
Coming for to carry me home.

Swing low, sweet JDAM,
Coming for to carry me home,
Swing low, sweet JDAM,
Coming for to carry me home.

The brightest day that I can say,
Coming for to carry me home,
When JDAM washed my sins away,
Coming for to carry me home.

Posted by Brett_the_Quarkian 2004-10-14 8:34:26 PM|| 2004-10-14 8:34:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Brett, that is sheer poetry!

Posted by trailing wife 2004-10-14 10:07:03 PM|| 2004-10-14 10:07:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 As Darth Vader would say..."Don't be too proud of this technological advancement, it's insignificant next to the power of "The Force"! The sheer accuracy and limited application of such force WAS used centuries ago (See 1Kings 18:30-38)By the LORD!!

Posted by smn 2004-10-14 11:16:46 PM|| 2004-10-14 11:16:46 PM|| Front Page Top

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