Bigger and better bombs, but some ideas are ageless.

[okie shooter]

Found this on the web, thought some one might find it interesting on the way the bigger bombs are going in the military world out there.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/dshtw.htm
Some of the new stuff is more sophisicated some is just bigger. Almost like the old earthquake bombs of WWII that only the largest bombers could carry.

[Optimus Prime]

kind of makes me wonder what the biggest thing you can fit on a B-2 is... I could think of a few places it would probably be fun to drop really big shit on from an invisible plane... :D

[cimmaronkid]

Gives a whole new meaning to "you can run but you can't hide"!

[okie shooter]

For this new bomb, I am not even sure what they plan on carrying it with, but its one big mamma jamma, It's very impressive, even more impressive in person. Some of the folks here get to see how well it preforms when they test the first loading in a few weeks.

[Norton]

That is impressive, but I see only the B52 and B2 can carry it. What has happened to the B1 ? Please don't tell me we are putting them in retirement.
Do they even have SAC anymore?

[okie shooter]

Sac is no more, not sure whats in its place.

[Norton]

Sac is no more, not sure whats in its place.

You shouldn't have told me that. Now I won't be able to sleep tonight not knowing if there is or is not a SAC keeping the Reds at bay! I may wake up tommorow with Russian Paratroopers at the 7/11 buying coffee and smoking cheap cigarettes.
Where did we leave that B 36 or that B 58?

[SteelCore]

You should skip seeing Red Dawn, too....WOLVERINES! :)

Okie, i've always been partial to the MOAB just becoase of the name "Mother of All Bombs", and don;t forget the daisy cutters of the VN era that led to it.

Thanks for another fine link to GlobalSecurity.org.

"The 6 m [20 feet] long MOP features short-span wings and trellis-type tails. The 13,600 kg [30,000 lb] weapon contains a 2,700 kg [6,000 lb] explosive charge. MOP is designed to go deeper than any nuclear bunker buster and take out 25 percent of the underground and deeply buried targets. It is expected to penetrate as much as 60 meters [200 feet] through 5,000 psi reinforced concrete. It will burrow 8 meters into the ground through 10,000 psi reinforced concrete"

So, this has "Iran's distributed underground nuke facilities" written all over it. And what with the defection of one of the top Iranian mil guys, I bet Iran's gonna shuttup soon. Mossad's already started whapping the usual suspects...

[Norton]

Where did we leave that B 58? No Mig or Russian SAM ever made could touch this..
and it carried a bomb.. a big one

[fal_762x51]

A Hustler might work.

[Norton]

Sorry.. since the post was on big bombs I had to post this a well.. A B 36 could carry a very big Hydrogen bomb. This kept Stalin up at night. He never knew when one of these babys would deliver a package to the Kremlin. We could fly these right to Moscow any time we wanted in the early 50s and they could have done nothing to stop them. In 1952 They flew a mass fight of these to Korea non stop from Omaha as a show of US might. These was our late 40s super bomber built to fly to Berlin non stop and fly back . Ah those were the days.. when we could buy fleets of huge bombers and have 3 types of big bombers in service at one time... B 36, B 47 and B 52 plus the B 58. Two types of ICBMs and an entire line of Army tactical rockets with nuclear tips.

[ace522]

No, the B-1's are not gone- they're all sitting nuclear alert. That's why they aren't ever deployed. And SAC has been replaced by StratCom, or Strategic Command. They took all SAC's A/C & missles away, and gave them to ACC.
(Yes, I'm an Air Force brat!:icon_biggrin:)

[Grasshopper]

I don't know about you guys but some of those pictures are absolutly beautifull.
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[Norton]

I don't know about you guys but some of those pictures are absolutly beautifull.
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The Air Force always had the best people in that dept.. They knew how to shoot a good picture.
Check out the B 47s from the mid 1950s and the B 70 from 1965.
The B70 was so fast the paint would peel off in flight.. Only the SR 71 could keep up with it. The poor MIG pilot would never have a chance..
The Russians never had anything like that.. They were green with envy.

[richl]

holy shit ! do you know how long its been since i seen a xb-70 !!!!!!!!!


brings back some memories when i was growing up on air bases !!! the 36 peacemaker a nice touch .. wright pat has them all on display ... i love going there...

and yea i grew up in 17 different states . dad was a propulsion expert for da air force


so i have seen some real neat shit ....... heheheheheheh

thanks for the flashback . those were the great days ,,,,,,,,:thumbup:

[tanstaafl4y]

Did somebody say moab?

1 minute Test footage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7tG7keSe-0

10 minute Infomercial (Futureweapons?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_siJJWYFs0

[Big Steve]

For this new bomb, I am not even sure what they plan on carrying it with, but its one big mamma jamma, It's very impressive, even more impressive in person. Some of the folks here get to see how well it preforms when they test the first loading in a few weeks.

I think they should test the first un-loading, in Iran!

[GreenWolf]

Maybe 10-12 miles from me, some guy has a scrapped B-36 lying in pieces on his farm, along with an assortment of other aircraft.
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Fea1/101-200/Fea182_Walters-Farm_Williams/part1/images/ws_v.jpg


Many years ago, I was hitchhiking to NYC, and an airline pilot gave me a ride. He told me that he started out flying B-17s, then B-29s, then the B-36, and retired flying the B-52. Of all those bombers, he told me that the B-36 was his favorite. He really loved flying that plane.