Bunker busters' may grow to 30,000 pounds

[southernleftylady]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/07/20/big.bomb/index.html
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- It's just an idea on paper, but the U.S. Air Force is asking defense contractors how they might develop a 30,000-pound, precision-guided bomb that could destroy targets deep underground, in caves or in hardened bunkers.

Air Force officials said the proposed weapon, called the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, would be substantially larger than the current penetrating bomb -- the GBU-28, a 5,000-pound weapon.

Military officials said the most likely use of such a weapon would be against underground targets such as those found in North Korea.

North Korea ....
ok so Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and N. Korea????
uhm... why am i not getting all warm and fuzzy inside thinking of this???

[MikeG]

1. New and improved ways to kill people. Just what we need.

[Big Kahuna]

2. "Massive Ordnance Penetrator"

Yeek. Sounds like these guys have issues.

[southernleftylady]

3. Ok that made me laugh and now i feel guilty though n/t

[James T. Kirk]

4. I say build it, if it is technically feasible.

:nuke:
Blowing up bunkers from the air will make it so our troops don't have to take bunkers the old fashioned way and will reduce US casualites in future conflicts.
:nuke:
Large bombs have been used to great effect in Afghanistan (for blowing up al Qaeda fighters) and Vietnam (for clearing landing zones).
:nuke:

[htuttle]

5. We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace

-- Michael Franti, Bomb the World

[Hubert Flottz]

6. That's cause they grow 'em big in Texas!

Something new for we the taxpayers to buy from Bush's natural old Daddy?

They grow the biggest Gubmint Contracts in the world in Texas, ask Halliburton!