Weighing In At 30,000 Pounds, U.S. Unveils New Bomb

[Purveyor]

WASHINGTON — The US Air Force has a new 30,000-pound bomb in its arsenal designed to penetrate targets buried deep underground, a spokesman said Tuesday.

The Air Force started taking delivery of the giant bomb, the “Massive Ordnance Penetrator,” in September, said Lieutenant Colonel Jack Miller.

Under an August 2 contract worth $32 million, the aerospace firm Boeing is due to produce eight of the giant MOP bombs to fulfil the Air Force’s “operational needs,” according to Miller.

The Air Force could not say how many of the conventional bombs have been delivered so far, but the MOP is seen as a weapon made for going after underground bunkers and tunnels in North Korea or Iran.

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[NYC_SKP]

1. I'm thinking of Rush Limbaugh....

...As possibly having the same IQ coupled with the same destructive power and same level of utter uselessness as this bomb.

:kick:

[provis99]

6. when I saw 30000 lbs and bomb, I immediately though of Limbaugh.

[arcane1]

2. Money well-spent....

if you lived on a planet full of fucking crazy people.

[cpwm17]

9. Yes, the planet's full of crazies

[Angry Dragon]

3. that is $4 million a bomb

[The Wizard]

8. That's too much money

for 30,000 pounds of cast iron and TNT.

[Newest Reality]

4. When will we have the

immense privileged of having it dropped on us? I mean, if we get out of hand with our terrifyingly peaceful, but growing and potentially massive protests.

Public safety and sanitation are important you know!

Hey, we are the number one supplier of arms, we have to make expensive WEAPONS to help with destruction and support violence all over the planet. That's what it means to be the greatest country on Earth. What profit is there in peace? What value does cooperation and harmony have?

[msongs]

5. a warning to OWS not to dig in for the winter perhaps nt

[Citizen Worker]

7. I'll bet there's some hand rubbing going on the Pentagon. There are more than a few military types

who will want to conduct real war field tests. I can hear faintly in the background, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.

[bemildred]

10. The old ways are best.

:sarcasm: