30,000LB. Bunker buster!

[262crew]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-1 ... ready.html

[the330thbg]

I see these headed to Iran in the near future,

[tom d. friedman]

the beehive is definetely swirling in the mid east!! the next generation bomber is on paper / computer..... dubbed the 2018 bomber. how much are they going to cost?? i've read where super aircraft carriers are now cost prohibitive & there will be no more. the new fad will be high tech ww 2 sized essex carriers. i read where an allied mid east country is buying some of those big assed 30 thousand boom booms. where does it end??

[the330thbg]

i read where an allied mid east country is buying some of those big assed 30 thousand boom booms.

That.., would be Israel!

Look out Iran!

[The Inspector]

What was the designator for that artillery tube turned down and into the casing for the C&C bunker buster that we all watched go throught the roof of that building in Iraq during Gulf War #1?

[the330thbg]

lol
Those were great!

GBU-28's

at just 5,000lb with a mere 630lbs of HE. But they did the job.

Israel has about 100 of those puppies sitting around as well.

Surely designated when Iran turns their energy reactors into weapons.

[The Inspector]

I was thinking about the BLU-115. An artillery tube around 8in in diameter was turned on a lathe to lighten it and the casing was upended and filled by 5 gallon buckets of warmed explosive, and I've heard it went on to a C-130 while still warm from the explosives, and I think was dropped from an Aardvark using PAVE LOW I believe.
I know an inert one was test dropped and digging for it was given up after 30 or 40 feet of excavating.

[the330thbg]

The initial batch of GBU-28s was built from modified 8 inch/203 mm artillery barrels (principally from deactivated M110 howitzers), but later examples were purpose-built.[3] They weigh 4,700 pounds (2132 kg) and contain 630 pounds (286 kg) of high explosive. The operator illuminates a target with a laser designator and the munition guides itself to the spot of laser light reflected from the target.

[b29flteng]

Back to the future.....

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ ... allboy.htm

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ ... ns/t12.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-12_Cloudmaker

[the330thbg]

ahhhh. the 'Daisy Cutters'

Totally different concept.., but YIKES! Able to turn entire neighborhoods into vats of potted jam in a second!