Thursday, April 13, 2017

U.S. Air Force Drops 'Mother Of All Bombs' On The Islamic State In Afghanistan





Air Force Times: CENTCOM: US drops 'mother of all bombs' on ISIS in Afghanistan

The U.S. military said it conducted a strike on an ISIS-K tunnel complex in the Achin district of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, on Thursday.

A U.S. aircraft dropped a GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Blast, also known as a MOAB, as part of ongoing efforts to defeat ISIS-Khorasan in Afghanistan, according to a statement from U.S. Central Command.

The strike aimed to minimize the risk to Afghan and U.S. forces conducting clearing operations in the area, the release said.

"As ISIS-K's losses have mounted, they are using IEDs, bunkers and tunnels to thicken their defense," Gen. John W. Nicholson, the top commander in Afghanistan, said in the release. "This is the right munition to reduce these obstacles and maintain the momentum of our offensive against ISIS-K."

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8 comments:

Jay Farquharson said...

$16 million.

RussInSoCal said...

I don't have the specs but I think that thing is ALL warhead. Free falling 10T, deep penetrating, thermobaric... and orange.

/oh, the metaphors.

Jay Farquharson said...

The MOAB is not a penetrator weapon and is primarily intended for soft to medium surface targets covering extended areas and targets in a contained environment such as a deep canyon or within a cave system.[citation needed] However, multiple strikes with lower yield ordnance may be more effective and can be delivered by fighter/bombers such as the F-16 with greater stand-off capability than the C-130 and C-17.[citation needed] High altitude carpet-bombing with much smaller 230-to-910-kilogram (500 to 2,000 lb) bombs delivered via heavy bombers such as the B-52, B-2, or the B-1 is also highly effective at covering large areas.[8]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43/B_Massive_Ordnance_Air_Blast

Anonymous said...

Either a diversion as the US and China plan on removing KIm Jung Un or a message to these nations that the USA will employ whatever weapons it needs to in the forthcoming battle.
Peace and Happy Easter to all.

Jay Farquharson said...

"My president fired $97.84 million dollars worth of missiles to change the narrative and all I got was Carter Page trending. - John Fugelsang"

fazman said...

Another message for kim for sure, and one that will rattle him.

Jay Farquharson said...

The BLU- 43B is useless against hardened sites.

Unknown said...

16 million

Jabber Jay wanted to personally dig out the Taliban mano e mano. He is one tough nutter.



16 lives cost 16 million too. There is a price put on lives and I have heard figures of 1 million and 2 million.

If you clear out the tunnel system completely how many lives would it cost?

If you do not clear out the tunnel how many lives will it cost?

Why doesn't Jabberfuck fess up and remind people that the Russian use thermobaric bombs too. They would have used on this complex and I would not have blamed them.