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2012-07-28 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by tipper 2012-07-28 00:51|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Yokay, but go where, as despite the rhetoric Iran isn't likely to unilaterally start anything.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-07-28 01:01|| 2012-07-28 01:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Sink the Yamato.

Posted by swksvolFF 2012-07-28 08:20|| 2012-07-28 08:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like a blog post! MOP vs. Yamato.

Posted by gromky 2012-07-28 10:03|| 2012-07-28 10:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Watch the locations that now get additional 'reinforcement' activity.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2012-07-28 11:26|| 2012-07-28 11:26|| Front Page Top

#5 What the hell is it made of?
20Ft by 1 ft is smaller than a tall boy (which is smaller than a Grand Slam) the Tall boy is 12,000 pounds.

http://www.bismarck-class.dk/tirpitz/miscellaneous/tallboy/tallboy.html

The Grand Slam bomb is 26 feet 6 inches by 3 feet, 10 inches and weighs 22,000 pounds.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2012-07-28 13:31|| 2012-07-28 13:31|| Front Page Top

#6 The idea of a MOP is to penetrate. Not blow up on the surface like a daisy-cutter.
I heard that, during Desert Storm, a number of the penetrators were made from spare barrels for 8-inch naval rifles. Heavy duty stuff, iow.
So it's probable that the casing, designed to penetrate many feet of reinforced concrete, takes up the bulk of the weight and only a small--relatively speaking--volume is left for explosive.
Still, 5k lbs of HE in an enclosed space will do a hell of a lot of damage, since, being so reinforced, there's no way for the blast to get out. Except an eighteen-inch hole.
The effect of confining the blast is dramatic. In OCS, the demo was a couple of little firecrackers about an inch and a half long. Two boards with a firecracker on each. One had a handful of mud on top. Bang. The tamped 'cracker split the board and the untamped one scorched the board. The tamping blew all over as a cloud of damp dust. IOW, the explosion was only slightly confined and still had a hell of a different effect.
Imagine a blast which, quite literally, cannot escape no matter what.
And, as somebody said, the folks have to get in and out. A Hellfire a day into the elevator shaft will prevent shift change. Making an exaggerated example.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2012-07-28 13:41|| 2012-07-28 13:41|| Front Page Top

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