Bunker buster
Los Angeles Times / W.J. Hennigan
17-Nov-2011 (one comment)

Aerospace giant Boeing Co. has delivered the first batch of 30,000-pound bombs, each nearly five tons heavier than anything else in the military's arsenal, to the U.S. Air Force to pulverize underground enemy hide-outs.

At a total cost of about $314 million, the military has developed and ordered 20 of the GPS-guided bombs, called Massive Ordnance Penetrators. They are designed to be dropped on targets by the Boeing-made B-52 Stratofortress long-range bomber or Northrop Grumman Corp.'s B-2 stealth bomber.

In an age of new emphasis on drones and lightweight weaponry, the Air Force's purchase highlights the Pentagon's ongoing need for defense contractors to build the kinds of big bombs and other heavy-duty ordnance they have produced for decades.

Packed with more than 5,300 pounds of explosives and more than 20 feet long, the giant bunker-busting bom... >>>

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Attack on Iran

by Siavash300 on Thu Nov 17, 2011 05:04 PM PST

Iran is unlikely to take seriously any western efforts to deter its nuclear capability, given the fact that the U.Sd its allies have repeatedly made threats, yet ultimately failed to do enough to halt the Iranian drive for nuclear weapons. Consequently, the starting point for any policy seeking to halt Iran's drive for atomic weapons is an understanding of how it has defied western powers from their diplomatic forays into the war. Soon we have to witness massacre of thousands of our brothers and sisters in Iran for the sake of Arabs in Gaza.  


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