Shik
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Or "massive ordnance air-burst," if you prefer.
We tested one of these things today in Florida, near Eglin AFB in the Panhandle. I've yet to see footage (& we REALLY wanted to see footage at work! We were chanting for footage!) but they say that residents were notified to expect a sound like thunder or "a door slamming" during the day.
Like its 15,000-pound Vietnam-era cousin the "Daisy Cutter," the 21,000-pound MOAB is a fuel-air explosive that ignites a mist in the air much like napalm. It's the biggest conventional (i.e., non-nuclear) ordnance package in history & yes, we're told it DOES leave a mushroom cloud.
Now, I'm not up on my Bible, but I do remember there being a town called Moab mentioned it in. Is there any kind of wonderful ironies that we can draw from it? Like, did they smite people as servants of the Chosen People of God or something?
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There's also a small town called Moab that's complaining about the thing. Can't imagine why.
The original Moab was a region east of the Dead Sea, north of Edom, and south of trans-Jordanic Ruben. They certainly weren't Jews, but I don't think they had too much trouble with Israel. Could be wrong.
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Da_bang80
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21,000 pounds? The Grand Slam Bomb from world war two was 20,000 pounds. Does a fuel-air bomb do more damage than a conventional bomb, due to the fact that it explodes in midair?
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They SAY that MOAB stands for "Massive Ordnance Air-Burst," but I don't believe them.
Mother Of All Bombs.
By the way, although the "Grand Slam" weighed 22,000 lbs, I belive the MOAB's "poundage" is in its "warhead," and the GS's warhead was only 9,135 lb. But my data could be in error.
Re; Moab as placename... wasn't there a Moab IV in TNG? "Masterpiece Society?"
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Is this thing like the ones from "Outbreak"? And the "Bunker Buster"?
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Saltah'na
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AFAIK, it is a compressed hydrogen bomb in Outbreak.
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"It was last used in Afghanistan as a weapon of fear..."
There's some bad wording, considering that "fear" is synonymous w/ "terror". Can't be admitting to using "weapons of terror", can we?
And isn't 21 000lbs. a little weak, in comparison to nuclear warheads? 10.5 tons isn't much compared to multiple megatons.
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in Trek, it would be a weapon created when they compress the rocks of hydrogen ore they mine on distant planets.
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quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poet: Maybe. "Compressed Hydrogen Bomb" sounds more like some Trek superweapon. As in, a hydrogen bomb that's been compressed, or something.
Maybe it was having a bad day, and was really a Depressed Hydrogen Bomb.
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