[eric strt6]

http://www.gizmag.com/massive-ordnance-penetrator-mop-gbu-57ab/20538/

The U.S. Air Force has just taken delivery of the first GBU-57A/B (Massive Ordnance Penetrator). It weighs 30,000 lb and will penetrate 200 ft of hardened concrete BEFORE it goes off. If you are reading this from an underground nuclear facility in Iran or North Korea, might we suggest some extended sick leave is (or soon will be) in order.

 

[mattmatt86]

Exactly what I hoped my tax dollars were going to.

 

[Jm_]

A hardened shelter (OBL, Al Qaeda, etc) can be staked out with UAVs and eventually attacked when an opportunity presents, which would seem much more efficient to me? I realize that bunker-busters are an important inventory...but 30K lbs? NK has some pretty extensive tunnels, but I don't really get the delivery aspect.

Edit: Looks like it can be carried by the B2 as well, so I guess it could be precision, but I just think it would be easier to take out things like air vents and supply routes into said underground facility via drones and orbiting platforms that can figure out where they are getting their water, air, food, etc. I would think there's "nowhere to hide" these days because we can put assets on a target and have them loiter now day and night using long-range cameras and sensors, not because you can bury something.

 

[kidwoo]

It weighs 30,000 lb and will penetrate 200 ft of hardened concrete BEFORE it goes off.

Psshh

Been carryin that around in ma britches for years.

 

[stevew]

air vents

 

[eric strt6]

It weighs 30,000 lb and will penetrate 200 ft of hardened concrete BEFORE it goes off.

Psshh

Been carryin that around in ma britches for years.

Thats one hell of a turd!!!!!

 

[Pesqueeb]

Well, since everyone has healthcare now, the schools are the best in they can be, all of our infrastructure is up to snuff, no one is hungry, and were running a gigantic surplus, I don't see why not.

 

[eric strt6]

Well, since everyone has healthcare now, the schools are the best in they can be, all of our infrastructure is up to snuff, no one is hungry, and were running a gigantic surplus, I don't see why not.

thats the spirit!!!

 

[kidwoo]

It weighs 30,000 lb and will penetrate 200 ft of hardened concrete BEFORE it goes off.



Thats one hell of a turd!!!!!

I took out an elementary school after some mexican food one night.

 

[JohnE]

The modern day equivalent of a burning sack of dog sh!t on the porch...this article is 2 years old though. Just catching up on your reading Eric?

 

[Andyman_1970]

It's GPS guided so yeah it's a PGW, and the weight is mostly in the casing and not the explosives to maximize the kinetic energy on impact.

 

[JohnE]

I have little faith in precision guided weapons, as 1) They are built by the lowest bidder and B) My wife can get lost with a GPS, who knows how badly one of those things can got lost.

(I kid, I kid...I have great faith in my wifes ability to get lost without a GPS.)

 

[jonKranked]

so just build your bunker with 201 feet of concrete

 

[jimmydean]

I recall losing a tomahawk on a video shoot we did for Discovery Channel. It had an engine failure, deployed flotation devices to aid in sea recovery, then sank, but not to the bottom because not all of the onboard fuel had emptied before it touched down. We had to call a tug to come find it.

It might have been guided, but it was a bitch to locate.