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god it's great to have a president actually go after them for once.
Some folks keep cheering him on when he drops bombs. I think he's being trained to do tricks for treats at this point with all the "such a good boy" comments being thrown around.
The MOAB and the MOP are totally different use type bombs, the MOAB is for area effect against soft targets while the MOP is a penetrating bunker buster. The MOP is much shorter and more robust/dense than the MOAB, which is why it can be dropped from a bomber. Interestingly, the MOP is still smaller than the T-12 developed in the late 40s for the B-36.
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Again, they are totally different concepts for totally different uses.
That sounds like a challenge. Aberdeen still has a T-12 casing on display...
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It's well known that terrorists are hiding in tunnels and underground. Until this point, we weren't dropping bombs that could reach those tunnels.
So, I was looking at it like this:
Fighting with troops on the ground and bombs and missles that could not reach the tunnels, caves and bunkers underground= ineffective, waste of time
Dropping bombs that can actually reach the tunnels and bunkers= more effective and at least a step in the right direction.
You have to go in to fight the war under the conditions that actually exist. If the terrorists are hiding in bunkers and tunnels underground- you have to drop bombs that have a payload that can actually reach them.
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Was collateral damage reported in this strike (at all)? Just curious
I don't support these wars at all. I think they are impossible to win, a waste of time and lives and we get absolutely nothing from them.
But, all the Dems and republicans seem to love these little wars- so until we get rid of the Dems and Pubs, these wars are a fact of life.
So, if you are fighting a war, you should use a strategy that makes it possible to win.
However, if the terrorists are hiding in tunnels and bunkers underground- what is the point of using ground troops or bombs that can't reach them? You can't win with that strategy.
There are ways of developing penetrating explosives that don't require as huge a blast radius as this bomb had - a blast radius that creates the opportunity for monumental levels of collateral damage.
This wasn't a sophisticated weapon or solution, it was just making as massive a payload as possible, 50% of which didn't explode in the direction needed to damage underground bunkers.
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