MOAB ... and we don't mean Utah

[insanebikerboy]

This thread sure did take a left turn.

I think that's the whole point of every thread on Airwarriors.....

 

[PropStop]

My best example; Bear is in the Colorado Rockies, it's like 40 degrees outside. He decided to hop into a freezing ass river for no other reason than to help him get downstream "faster", he was tired of walking. After a bit, he gets out, then makes a big deal about building a fire before hypothermia sets in. Good tv, bad advice.

Saw that episode too. Pissed me off, plus he was wearing a friggen life jacket under his sweat shirt!!!. So some yahoo thinks they can do that sans life jacket (because it wasn't advertised that he was wearing one) and ends up dead. Well, maybe that's darwinism at work.

In his Alaska episode he continues to do stupid things, more than I care to name. The worst was leaving a perfectly good shelter that he found (a disused hunting lodge) in favor of taking a crappy skiff into a patch of ice bergs - TO LOOK FOR A FISHING BOAT!

As i grew up in Alaska, i can assure you that fishing boats steer well clear of ice bergs. Oh man, he pisses me off.

That and he's a crappy skier too.

/end rant

 

[Rubiks06]

I did notice the life vest as well. I thought i was seeing things. You know his camera crew is there with all kinds of good food and drink. It kind of makes you wonder how much of this "not eating" he really does. Survivor man I agree is much more tailored to your average joe. He makes comments every now and then about how if he climbs something or crosses something he has to do it twice because he is his own camera crew he has to preposition his own cameras. The one he did in the swamp where he killed the rattle snake and braved the mosquitoes. Thats balls....

 

[Flash]

Im not sure he was actually "in" the special forces. I know he did a thing with the SAS it says so in the opening credits but was he actually an SAS member or was that a TV thing he did. I know he did a show with the French Foreign Legion. Either way his show is pretty entertaining and though not all of his stunts are practical for your average Joe survival wise there are things in there that can be helpful should anyone ever have to use them. Thats my two cents.

His bio say that he was in the British SAS for 3 years before he broke his back in a parachuting accident. If he was not actually an SAS guy he would have been exposed as a fraud already, that is not a claim you can get away with in the UK without having been the real deal.

http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/manvswild/bio/bio.html

 

[Flash]

Pretty impressive . Kind of long vid, but an interesting weapon.

I am suprised that they are caling it the biggest conventional aerial bomb made, it isn't by weight. If someone can say what was, and it actually was used in combat, then they get rep points.

 

[RHPF]

I think Bear is awesome. I look at half of his stuff and think... wow I would never do that. And I think I am pretty big on taking risks. Let's see he climbed to the top of an avocado tree like 75ft off the ground with no harness/rope, and pulled out his knife and ate the avocado at the top of the tree. He jumped in the glacier, then barely pulled himself out, did push ups naked to stay warm, and built a fire. His clothes then froze solid. He is still alive. If anyone on this forum could do the stuff he can do and walk away from it with your body and mind intact I will be very impressed.

Oh and the tip about keeping up your moral by going for a swim? Probably a bad idea since tiger sharks were waiting for him and decided they wanted a piece of him. Overall its a great show. I'd much rather watch that then the Paris Hilton or whatever new fad tv show is on. It is though a tv show, and not a survival manual, which I dont think i'd really want to watch anyways.

 

[skidz]

I am suprised that they are caling it the biggest conventional aerial bomb made, it isn't by weight. If someone can say what was, and it actually was used in combat, then they get rep points.

The British's Grand Slam Bomb. What a name.

 

[Flash]

The British's Grand Slam Bomb. What a name.

Ding Ding, you get the prize! According to the stats, it was 500 pds more than the MOAB. Very impressive weapon........

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/tallboy.htm

http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/grandslam.html

 

[Pags]

Ding Ding, you get the prize! According to the stats, it was 500 pds more than the MOAB. Very impressive weapon........

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/tallboy.htm

http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/grandslam.html

Cool concept of destruction too...who needs a direct hit when it basically causes an earthquake.

almost as cool as the dambuster bombs.

 

[usmarinemike]

80 foot craters? I thought these things were supposed to be used for making LZs where there previously couldn't be one. I guess I was wrong. Is there an air delivered explosive device for that mission?

 

[Carno]

You're thinking of the Daisy Cutter bombs, used in Vietnam to create clearings in the jungle.

 

[A4sForever]

....I thought these things were supposed to be used for making LZs ....Is there an air delivered explosive device for that mission?

Yes .... note inboard starboard station modified GP bomb with fuze extender.

 

[skidz]

80 foot craters? I thought these things were supposed to be used for making LZs where there previously couldn't be one. I guess I was wrong. Is there an air delivered explosive device for that mission?

The BLU-82 was used for that. They had a 3 foot nose on the thing so it would blow up above ground and not crater so badly. They even dropped a few in the first Gulf War.

Edit: A4's got out the fuze extender deal before me.

 

[skidz]

Just to give yall an idea of the size of these guys.
The Grand Slam is in the far back.

 

[A4sForever]

The British's Grand Slam Bomb. What a name.

Rep points for anyone who can tell me what aircraft carried/dropped it ...

*edit* ... time's up, skidz ... you're looking it up. Anyone else .... ???