The Air Force's 30,000 Pound Bunker-Busting Bomb Is Ready For Action

[xchrom]

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-air-force-says-its-30000-pound-bunker-busting-bomb-is-now-ready-to-use-2012-7



Its been nearly eight months since the Pentagon sent its largest and most powerful bomb, the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), back to Boeing for modifications necessary to take out Iranian nuclear facilities, but the Air Force says it's now ready to go.

Jeff Schogol at Defense News reports that Air Force Secretary Michael Donley says that while the MOP bomb continues to be refined and optimized, the Pentagon feels the 30,000 pound piece of ordnance is now sufficient to strike whatever targets the military may have in mind.

While the bomb went back to the drawing board with Pentagon planners considering Iran a potential target, recent developments in Syria offer up alternate possibilities for the MOP's initial mission.

Schogol mentions in his piece Defense Department spokesman George Little who said Tuesday that Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons are much on the minds of military planners: "I think I've been very clear," Little said, "as have others in the U.S. government, that it would be unacceptable not to secure them.”


***cause all our infrastructure is fixed, right? our poor schools have all the money they need, right? etc, right?

[geckosfeet]

1. Oooooooooo - the penetrator - scary pahllus shaped hunks of exploding metal.....

Now all we need to do is find some evil-doers to target...

... and we wonder (or not) why we have a gun culture hell bent on killing - we make an industry out it.

[Scootaloo]

2. Incredible

Twenty of these cost $314 MILLION.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/16/business/la-fi-bunker-buster-bomb-20111117

Each of these bombs costs six million and seven hundred thousand dollars. Each one.

And what the fuck do you do with a bomb?

You blow it up. "Hopefully" killing lots of people with it. Poof. Six-point-seven million dollars and X amount of lives up in smoke in under a second, because the US Air Force had to have 'em. Had to. Just couldn't live without it.

Our kids are hungry, our schools are libraries of ignorance, our cities are falling down around our ears, our veterans are homeless and our elders are ailing but fuck me, Michael B. Donley, secretary of the Air Force, had to have these big bombs.

I hope he crams one up his own ass for motherfucking safe keeping.

[xchrom]

3. it's just a fucking insult on top of the injury.

what the american people have been through...and we get a new bomb?

it's beyond outrageous.

[greytdemocrat]

6. That's a bargin really...

And it isn't like they are going to need thousands of them. Pretty tame cost wise.

[MadHound]

4. "modifications necessary to take out Iranian nuclear facilities"

Hey, guess where we're going to send troops next? That's right!

[HopeHoops]

5. Well, at least it has a pretty paint job.

[part man all 86]

7. Great, great, great, great and great!!!? Iran here we come.

It is another sunny day in MIC as the economic clouds rain fire on the rest of the country.