Pentagon’s 30,000-pound bunker-buster ‘superbomb’ ready for use

July 26, 2012 19:00

The biggest conventional bomb ever developed is ready to wreak destruction upon the enemies of the US. Air Force Secretary Michael Donley said its record-breaking bunker-buster has become operational after years of testing.

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Latonya29Nelson (unregistered) 15.12.2012 10:11

If you are willing to buy real estate, you will have to receive the home loans. Furthermore, my brother all the time uses a consolidation loan, which is really rapid.

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yuri_nahl (unregistered) 02.08.2012 02:39

Comrades do not worry. This is not a bunker buster bomb. This was Darth Vader's escape pod which accidentally landed at the Croydon Airport near London, and was commandeered by Mrs. Hilary Clinton's snack chef to be used as her Emergency One Million Calorie Food Stipend reservoir. As anyone who has had the misfortune to see a photo of  madame lately can estimate, she needs at least 10,000 calories a day to maintain her blubber level. If she fails to guzzle her minimum calorie needs, her skin loosens, and is at risk of flapping in the slightest breeze. In order to save her from the embarrasment of flapping skin, the South American Andean Condor has been utilized as a cover. That is, any time Mrs. Clinton's loose skin starts flapping in a breeze, the camera pans to a captive  group of  South American Andean Condors who are poked with sticks to make it look like they are getting ready to fly away. Actually, they can't fly away since that would make them useless as a flapping skin cover for Mrs. Clinton. The performance record of the South American Andean Condor is good. The State Department has been cleaning out the inventory of unclaimed dogs at animal shelters anywhere madame lands her Boeing C17 Globemaster III. They are used to throw to the South American Andean Condors to keep them from becoming depressed. The condors think the dogs are Andean sheep which are the bird's natural prey. Unfortunately, this means there are no dogs left for the Asian communities to eat, dog being part of their normal diet. When madame's C17 Globemaster III lands, the Catholic Asian communities call it , "The Kiss of Death."

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Me (unregistered) 01.08.2012 22:31

$330m USD for development a bomb?   With so many starving people and issues to deal with in the USA.  $330m USD ca buy much more positive and needed things as compared to a stupid bomb.  Can anyone spell the word:

W-A-S-T -E

The human race is doomed if this is path we pave for ourselves. 
And the US Air Force will fly us all there... to the end of the human race. 

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Steve (unregistered) 01.08.2012 16:17

mrsharfer (unregistered) wrote in #2
I love the smell of Bunker Busters in the morning!


Bunker Busters do smell???

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AlphaMike (unregistered) 01.08.2012 13:54

And yet the Taliban manage to "whup their a__"

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Karsten Hansen (unregistered) 01.08.2012 11:15

And this Mother/Father of all bombs?Like the one before this one,is for the purpose of fighting Terrorist,the never ending pseudo war`?And the next bomb,how big will that be,and the next and next and next,eccoing out into the future:The human race is sick,no doubt about that,instead of helping one and other,they make bigger and bigger bombs,more and more sick food undrinkeble water,Mafia runned banks,a rotten political system bought by the Mafia,bank that run Drugtraffic,intellig ens that smugles Heroin Cocain,how low can we go???Sorry to say,but but we aint there yet!A New generation of mindmanipulated children are at hand,and this more sick than any doomsday book ever written!

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wild sausage (unregistered) 01.08.2012 10:45

a realy deep hole filled with exslosives -coverd with papmache camoflarge net .
that should make a good bang with a volcano .

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pacifist (unregistered) 01.08.2012 09:38

In the meantime americans are losing their homes,jobs and everything what you need for a good life. They should focus on their own problems instead of ruining innocent peoples life... 

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A (unregistered) 01.08.2012 05:04

ed (unregistered) wrote in #17
@A. Smith. What a STUPID military assessment! Do you really think the B-1s, B-2s or B-52s would be the first platforms in??? No my dumb @ss friend! EMP weapons will come in first to burn out Iranian electronics. Along with that, computer viruses will shut down Iranian weapon and commercial computer systems! After that, cruise missiles will come in and hit Iranian air defenses, communications, command &control and radar facilities. Only then will the bombers come in joined by jamming aircraft like the F-18 Growlers, and F-111 Jammers. The bombers will be too high for hand-held air-to-air visual engagement. Forget about AAA! And all this incoming ordnance will approach from a 360 degree arch around Iran. The Iranians will think they have been invaded by flying bombs from every direction of the compass! If you think U.S., NATO and Israeli weapons, and this bunkerbuster, won't make it in with all bombers egressing unscathed, you are nuts! Iran faces total ANNIHILATION! That's a REAL military assessment! Wake up!!!

Aha , Vietnam was a picnic in what the death toll will be. Predict 200,000,000 worldwide as a result of obliteration of the US Navy for starters.

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Advisor (unregistered) 01.08.2012 04:38

Alex Scipio (unregistered) wrote in #17
2.5 kilotons of explosive. BFD. The ONLY thing that matters is the size of the bang. A W88 warhead on a trident D5 = 475 kilotons (.475MT), weighs lots less, gets there more quickly & safely and VAPORIZES well over 200' of concrete AND the Iranians within. So we're gonna drop less than we can, risk pilots to do so, and only delay a nuke from the world's ultimate bad guys who later will nuke Israel or Britain or France or the USA. Good choice. NOT. 
Now, can you risk delivery of 20% enriched fine powder covering the large cities? I think not, to die from explosion would be a pleasure!

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A.Smith 01.08.2012 04:32

While it is entirely likely USA/Israel/NATO submarines and guided missile destroyers would deploy USA tomahawk cruise missiles in the opening strikes on a Iranian War, the Russian, Chinese and Iranian submarines would immediately detect their launch and radio that information and the warships position to Iranian ballistic and anti-aircraft missile batterys.

For a USA/Israeli/NATO submarine deploying cruise missiles, that would be nearly suicidal as it would highlight where they are and demark them clearly as an enemy. It is entirely likely they would almost immediately have a torpedo headed their way which would be certain doom.

For a USA/Israeli/NATO guided missile destroyer deploying cruise missiles, their location would be immediately marked and submarines and Iranian ballistic missiles would be deployed to eliminate that enemy warship.

If the Iranian engineers have adopted the Russian technology of photographic targeting their ballistic missiles could home in on those surface ships upper decks taking them out with a single massive strike. Syria has recieved the Russian Iskander export ballistic missiles which are fully capable and able to evade ABM missiles and sink about any surface warship with a single Iskander strike.

USA is playing the Libya playbook on Syria and Iran but Iran is certainly not unarmed like Libya was and Iran's 4 million troops would crush any invading force.

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A.Smith 01.08.2012 04:12

Iran's in-house anti-aircraft missile battery's have collected a number of near impossible to spot much less shoot down UAV drones.

Iran' s technical engineers downed and captured the infamous CIA 'Beast' Stealth drone which they WATCHED enter into Iran's airspace although that super secret stealth drone is far more stealthy than the vaunted B2 stealth bomber. What was the bioweapons deployment equipment doing in that drone I wonder?

Iran' s in-house anti-missile's are double trouble for USA/Israel because there is no hidden foreign made back doors which major export arms dealers routinely have to make certain those missiles are not used against them. Those missiles altitude ceiling is far beyond the maximum ceiling of USA/Israeli fighterjets and bombers. It comes down to if they can be successfully jammed not out-runned or out-manuvered.

Besides the Fordo Complex which is immune to USA/Israeli air raids, the Russian built (finished) operating commercial nuclear reactor has scores of Russian nuclear engineers and technicians. Bombing a operating commercial reactor would kill scores of Russian scientists and green light America's hundreds of operating commercial reactors as viable military targets setting a extremely evil standard.

The heavy steel casing on this huge so-called Bunker-Buster would return a huge radar signature in flight making it a perfect target to shoot down, defeating it before it even struck the ground. A S-300 Russian anti-aircraft missile which the in-house Iranian battery's are said to be modeled on would have no problems hitting that bomb before it even hit the ground.

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ed (unregistered) 01.08.2012 00:55

@A. Smith. What a STUPID military assessment! Do you really think the B-1s, B-2s or B-52s would be the first platforms in??? No my dumb @ss friend! EMP weapons will come in first to burn out Iranian electronics. Along with that, computer viruses will shut down Iranian weapon and commercial computer systems! After that, cruise missiles will come in and hit Iranian air defenses, communications, command &control and radar facilities. Only then will the bombers come in joined by jamming aircraft like the F-18 Growlers, and F-111 Jammers. The bombers will be too high for hand-held air-to-air visual engagement. Forget about AAA! And all this incoming ordnance will approach from a 360 degree arch around Iran. The Iranians will think they have been invaded by flying bombs from every direction of the compass! If you think U.S., NATO and Israeli weapons, and this bunkerbuster, won't make it in with all bombers egressing unscathed, you are nuts! Iran faces total ANNIHILATION! That's a REAL military assessment! Wake up!!!

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Jerry Swiftfeet 01.08.2012 00:55

It remains to be seen when US is going to attack Iran. Fighting in Persian Gulf bathtub would be a death warrant for US carriers. Iran has mastered the art of disproportionate warfare. That is why US is not going to attack anytime soon or later. Iran is now a recognized regional superpower that America has to learn to deal with respect. 

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