Best Posts in Thread: US Drops "Mother Of All Bombs"

*sigh* I hate the news. They are making this out to be more than what it is and politicizing the sh*t out of this. It is a large air blast bomb that uses the ambient air as an oxidizer for a sustained shockwave to burn/asphyxiate anyone in a confined area/bunker/tunnel (this is why the video of the MOAB "Massive Ordnance Air Blast" didn't look like a 11 ton bomb being dropped in the test video)or to remove large areas of foliage.

It is not a bomb that is intended to destroy terrestrial structures (though it will do that). Bombs with their own oxidizers have a much more destructive blast and are better suited for that job. Its use likely has more to do with the tunnel system being large enough to justify its use than it does about Trump sending a message. Also, Trump recently bitched on Twitter about the massive amount of money wasted in Afghanistan....yet he just (allegedly, I'm not sure he had anything to do with it) ordered the dropping of a $14M bomb to kill a couple dozen people in caves.

P.S. what will happen when someone tells Trump that Russia's largest conventional bomb is bigger.....and called "the father of all bombs".