Unless... the bastages are spreading in Afghanistan.
Nice is overrated
"It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018
April 13, 2017, 12:36 PM
TMats
Staff Sgt. Mark DeAlencar, 7th SFG was killed in this sector just a couple days ago. His brothers obviously found the cave/tunnel complex the BGs operated from
_______________________________________________________ despite them
April 13, 2017, 12:38 PM
BamaJeepster
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Originally posted by Bigboreshooter: Wonder is this was done so that Assad, Iran, and Lil Kim could see what may be in store for them.
That was certainly taken into consideration in using it. SecDef Mattis is a strategic thinker/scholar and knows who will be watching this and what their reaction will be.
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams
"The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams
“It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken
April 13, 2017, 12:46 PM
Ryanp225
Welcome to Half-ghanistan.
April 13, 2017, 12:48 PM
RHINOWSO
Glad they put GPS on these ones.
Some of the older 'daisy-cutters' that they broke out in 2001 were dropped in that same area, only problem was that the it took the USAF quite awhile to actually find where they impacted... i.e., not on the targets...
U.S. forces used a GPS-guided GBU-43 bomb, which is 30 feet long and weighs a staggering 21,600 pounds.
A crater left by the blast is believed to be more than 300 meters wide
A specialized MC-130 'Hercules' cargo aircraft released the weapon at 7:00 p.m. local time. It was too big to drop from a traditional bomb-bay door or release from an aircraft wing, so 'we kicked it out the back door,' a U.S. official told Fox News.
The weapon's sheer power produces a blast that can be felt miles away., largely because of its construction.
Engineers used an unusually thin aluminum skin to encase MOAB's payload, in order to avoid a thicker steel frame interfering with the impact on a target.
April 13, 2017, 12:50 PM
wolffy88
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Originally posted by Ryanp225: Welcome to Half-ghanistan.
Hahahaha! Nice one.
-wolff
"In the absence of light, darkness prevails." - Professor Bruttenholm
April 13, 2017, 12:52 PM
Ryanp225
quote:
Originally posted by sdy:
It was too big to drop from a traditional bomb-bay door or release from an aircraft wing, so 'we kicked it out the back door,' a U.S. official told Fox News.
