Five years later, it's still known as 'Mother of all bombs'



3/13/2008
by Staff Sgt. Stacia Zachary
96th Air Base Wing Public Affairs

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE. Fla. (AFPN) -- What's worse than unleashing on society the wrath of the largest non-nuclear bomb yet to be made? Letting the world know it's out there and ready to be used at any moment.

The guided bomb unit-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb is a 21,600 pound, Global Positioning System-guided munition with precision guidance and architecture to be delivered accurately to enemy forces with the main intention of permanently disabling them. The goal was to put pressure on then-Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to cease and desist United Nations violations.


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Bah!

It's all about the FOAB now. The MOAB is old news.


BOOM!

At least the MOAB is GPS guided and is actually in service and not a prototype
And I demand the MOAB be modified so that a B-52 can carry it... or maybe 3...
I am sure you could get one inside, along with one on each external pylon...

Chourse when we make MOAB russia has to make a FOAB..............

That is a really big bomb. We should be able to use it on AC!

Yeah... The Russians have surpassed our "Mother of All Bombs" with their "Father of All Bombs". It's supposedly 4 times more powerful than our MOABs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_of_all_bombs


Then again, nobody's freaking out.

This post has been edited by grgspunk: Mar 27 2008, 08:12 AM

Maybe we should be.

Yep, I think we should. What's that noise?


*BOOM*


Edit: 100th Post!!!!

This post has been edited by fatty4: Mar 27 2008, 08:30 AM

Or....we could make one twice as big and call it BBOMOAB....you know the Big Brother of the Mother of All Bombs.... On second thought that dosen't roll of the tongue well. Ah' hell lets just drop them two at a time. That should do em' up right.

This post has been edited by FredericktheGreat: Mar 27 2008, 08:36 AM

We're not in the cold war anymore; we've got better things to do.

I think we should worry about any one who has a bomb that powerful, isn't that why we went to Iraq?...wmd's? If this really is 4 times more powerful than an a-bomb then it is a wmd and by the policy our current admnistration has in place concerning wmd's, we should be gearing up for another fight. Do i personally think the policy is right? No. But if we will invade a country once over wmd's ( well supposed wmd's) we should at least be consistant.

It's not four times as powerful as an A-bomb. It's four times as powerful as our MOAB, which is our most powerful non-nuclear ordnance. Besides, Russia hasn't launched any nukes or FOABs in anger, unlike Saddam Hussein, who gassed part of Iraq's population.

This post has been edited by Seraph 5: Mar 27 2008, 01:45 PM

Oh, jeez. I miss read, my bad. I know they haven't launched anything in anger but to me this still seems like somthing worth keeping an eye on. You know those sneaky Russians. Always up to somthing.....wait...is this 1982?

last time I checked 2008, could be time travelling ofcourse

Time travelling is very fun, unless the time machine screws up and you're stuck in Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945 at 8:14 AM.


MOAB TEH FKKING YUKTOBELARUSIANS!!!!!!!!!

This post has been edited by Blak110: Mar 29 2008, 07:54 AM

coool....

Considering the fact that the old Soviet regime is gone and is no longer ruled by a non-democratic dictator, I'd trust them with WMD's more as opposed to a psycho like Hussein. Plus, their military is in shambles compared to what they used to have.

This post has been edited by grgspunk: Mar 29 2008, 07:59 AM

im sorry i think you meant saddam insane.

but yeah wut he said^

Was this a bunker-buster?

This post has been edited by Yellow 13: Apr 6 2008, 12:48 PM

Nope, it was an air blast weapon that creates a very devastating pressure wave that destroys only above ground targets. It's the same type of weapon as the daisy cutter. It hardly even leaves a crater.