Gawd damn!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

B-2 Bomber Gets Boeing’s New 30,000-Pound Bunker-Buster Bomb
By Tony Capaccio - Nov 14, 2011 11:00 PM CT

The U.S. Air Force has taken delivery of a new 30,000-pound bomb from Boeing Co. (BA) that’s capable of penetrating deeply buried enemy targets.

The huge bunker buster, dubbed the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, is built to fit the B-2 stealth bomber. The Air Force Global Strike Command started receiving the bombs in September, Air Force spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jack Miller said in a short statement to Bloomberg News.

The deliveries “will meet requirements for the current operational need,” he said.

The Air Force in 2009 said Boeing might build as many as 16 of the munitions. Miller yesterday had no details on how many the Air Force plans to buy. Boeing in August received a $32 million contract that included eight of the munitions.

Command head Lieutenant General James Kowalski told the annual Air Force Association conference in September the command “completed integration” of the bunker-buster bomb with the B- 2, “giving the war-fighter increased capability against hardened and deeply buried targets.”

The bomb is the U.S. military’s largest conventional penetrator. It’s six times bigger than the 5,000-pound bunker buster that the Air Force now uses to attack deeply buried nuclear, biological or chemical sites.

Chicago-based Boeing is manufacturing the bomb, which was successfully demonstrated in March 2007.
Iranian Bunkers

The B-2, developed by Falls Church, Virginia-based Northrop Grumman Corp. (NOC), has a shape and skin capable of evading radar. It’s the only U.S. bomber designed to penetrate air defenses such as those believed in use by North Korea and Iran. It’s also the only aircraft currently capable of carrying the new bomb.

The B-2 has bombed targets in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Three in March flew round-trip, non-stop missions from Missouri to Libya in the opening hours of U.S. air strikes, dropping 45 bombs.

Little authoritative information has been published about the capability of the Massive Ordnance Penetrator. A December 2007 story by the Air Force News Service said it has a hardened- steel casing and can reach targets as far down as 200 feet underground before exploding.

The new, 20.5-foot-long bomb carries more than 5,300 pounds of explosives and is guided by Global Positioning System satellites, according to a description on the Web site of the Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

The Pentagon in July 2009 formally asked Congress to shift funds in order to accelerate by three years fielding the weapon.
‘Operational Need’

Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale, in his July 8, 2009, request, said there was “an urgent operational need for the capability to strike hard and deeply buried targets in high- threat environments,” and top commanders of U.S. forces in Asia and the Middle East “recently identified the need to expedite” the bomb program.

The United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency last week reported Iran was trying to develop an atomic bomb to fit on a missile capable of hitting Israel.

Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons facilities are dispersed over a broad area 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers) and multiple countries to the east of Tel Aviv. Some are underground. Iran has repeatedly asserted that its nuclear program is for peaceful civilian goals, such as power generation.

Iran is following the lead of China and Russia in protecting its Natanz and Qom nuclear facilities by moving them underground, the Defense Intelligence Agency director, Lieutenant General Ronald Burgess, told a Senate panel in February.
Hardened Facilities

“Buried, hardened facilities and improved air defenses are key elements of Iran’s extensive program to protect its nuclear infrastructure from destruction,” Burgess said.

“The spread of western tunneling technology and equipment is contributing to a rise in construction by countries and organizations that have not previously used modern techniques,” he said.

Authorities in Tehran announced recently that they’re moving some uranium enrichment from a more vulnerable site at Natanz to a location at Qom that is 90 meters (295 feet) under rock, said David Albright, who is founder and president of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington.

To contact the reporter on this story: Tony Capaccio in Washington at acapaccio@bloomberg.net

[Svartalf]

So, not only, as any American, are you a son and worshipper of Mammon, but you also are a MOABite?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

So, not only, as any American, are you a son and worshipper of Mammon, but you also are a MOABite?

You gotta a lot of baals to call me that, buddy.

[Atheist-Lite]

They need to be sure, especialy with the possiblity of biological weapons being made in these underground facilities, and a 30,000 Ib bomb isn't gonna be insurrance enough against some nasty bug escaping. The only way is to use large nukes, the hydrogen bomb. It is the only way to be sure. Please complain, to whom ever, that these are not gonna do it, they are not nearly powerful enough to prevent a potential bio-weapon escape from the vicinity. Ten or twelve megatons on each of the main sites is what you need to do this properly with regards to risk/benefit.

[Gawd]

This is hypocritical. Americans once again praising their own weapons and weapons development while threatening others who try and defend themselves from the attack of Americans. I spit on the American flag.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[kiki5711]

My bomb is bigger than your bomb!

[Rum]

This is hypocritical. Americans once again praising their own weapons and weapons development while threatening others who try and defend themselves from the attack of Americans. I spit on the American flag.

[Audley Strange]

Great, now we can't even hide underground when the Overlords decide once and for all that the rest of humanity is too stupid to have any liberties.

[Gawd]

Great, now we can't even hide underground when the Overlords decide once and for all that the rest of humanity is too stupid to have any liberties.

The answer is to bring the war to American soil and bomb them for a change.

[Audley Strange]

Great, now we can't even hide underground when the Overlords decide once and for all that the rest of humanity is too stupid to have any liberties.

The answer is to bring the war to American soil and bomb them for a change.

Or you could whine like a child going on and on and on, on a tiny forum on the internet filled with people disinterested in your view, rather that put into practice your convictions, that'll show 'em.

Shit or get off the pot eh? You're boring us man.

[Gawd]

Great, now we can't even hide underground when the Overlords decide once and for all that the rest of humanity is too stupid to have any liberties.

The answer is to bring the war to American soil and bomb them for a change.

Or you could whine like a child going on and on and on, on a tiny forum on the internet filled with people disinterested in your view, rather that put into practice your convictions, that'll show 'em.

Shit or get off the pot eh? You're boring us man.

Is that a yes for having war on American soil?

[Audley Strange]

I couldn't care less one way or another, but no, what it was, was me essentially claiming that you are nothing but a whiner AND If anyone was as obsessed, insensed and appalled to the extent you are, yet choose to do nothing but say how bad "the bad guys" are day after day week after week, without doing anything about it is either a coward or not as bothered as they pretend.

I don't think you have any real convictions. Your judeophobia and anti-americanism is just a shtick you use because you crave attention. I think you think you are being controversial or transgressive, but you're not.

Prove me wrong. I'll send chocolates to the blacksite.

[Gawd]

I couldn't care less one way or another, but no, what it was, was me essentially claiming that you are nothing but a whiner AND If anyone was as obsessed, insensed and appalled to the extent you are, yet choose to do nothing but say how bad "the bad guys" are day after day week after week, without doing anything about it is either a coward or not as bothered as they pretend.

I don't think you have any real convictions. Your judeophobia and anti-americanism is just a shtick you use because you crave attention. I think you think you are being controversial or transgressive, but you're not.

Prove me wrong. I'll send chocolates to the blacksite.

So you rather me go out and wage war? You know that there are other ways to win, right? You take down America where it hurts, the wallet. And right now, I'm hearing ads for Israeli Bonds..........

[Audley Strange]

The answer is to bring the war to American soil and bomb them for a change.

Your shit doesn't even have any consistency, it's just brown water that stinks a lot.