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MOAB ... and we don't mean Utah
- Thread starter BigIron
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The head. It's a HEAD !!!
And were you my age ... you would probably deserve "rep" just for making it back ...
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I always loved how "casual" ordies appeared while in and around "their children" ...
What??? Me Worry ... ???
skidz
adrenaline junky
My apologies, the head. Be grateful I didn't call it the latrineThe head. It's a HEAD !!!
And were you my age ... you would probably deserve "rep" just for making it back ...
, as I do go to an Army-run school. But for the time being, I'm home on summer leave, oh do I hate the civilian world.
check out the 41,000 lb city buster that was the B-36's primary
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If memory serves, the BLU-82 was used to clear landmines in Desert Storm and as a psychological weapon. Apparently a British SAS team was a few miles from one of the drops, and commented, "The bloody Americans just nuked Baghdad!"
Oh, there was a bigger version of the Grand Slam but it was never used in combat, the T-12.
http://www.answers.com/topic/t12
http://www.answers.com/topic/t12
skidz
adrenaline junky
Yes, I those two points weren't meant to seem related. I was just stating that a couple were dropped in Iraq, but not to clear LZ's.
Funny story about what happens when you lose track of your ordnance, even the big stuff...
http://www.gunnies.pac.com.au/gallery/grand_slam.htm
Apparently when Lincolnshire County Council were widening the road past RAF Scampton's main gate in about 1958, the 'gate guards' there had to be moved to make way for the new carriageway. Scampton was the WWII home of 617 Sqn, and said "gate guards" were a Lancaster...and a Grand Slam bomb.
When they went to lift the Grand Slam, thought for years to just be an empty casing, with an RAF 8 Ton Coles Crane, it wouldn't budge. "Oh, it must be filled with concrete" they said. Then somebody had a horrible thought .... No!..... Couldn't be? ... Not after all these years out here open to the public to climb over and be photographed sitting astride! .... Could it? .... Then everyone raced off to get the Station ARMO. He carefully scraped off many layers of paint and gingerly unscrewed the base plate.
Yes, you guessed it, live 1944 explosive filling! The beast was very gently lifted onto an RAF 'Queen Mary' low loader, using a much larger civvy crane (I often wonder what, if anything, they told the crane driver), then driven slowly under massive police escort to the coastal experimental range at Shoeburyness. There it was rigged for demolition, and when it 'high ordered', it proved in no uncertain terms to anyone within a ten mile radius that the filling was still very much alive!
Exhaustive investigations then took place, but nobody could find the long-gone 1944, 1945 or 1946 records which might have shown how a live 22,000 lb bomb became a gate guard for nearly the next decade and a half. Some safety distance calculations were done, however, about the effect of a Grand Slam detonating at ground level in the open. Apart from the entire RAF Station, most of the northern part of the City of Lincoln, including Lincoln Cathedral, which dates back to 1250, would have been flattened.
http://www.gunnies.pac.com.au/gallery/grand_slam.htm
Apparently when Lincolnshire County Council were widening the road past RAF Scampton's main gate in about 1958, the 'gate guards' there had to be moved to make way for the new carriageway. Scampton was the WWII home of 617 Sqn, and said "gate guards" were a Lancaster...and a Grand Slam bomb.
When they went to lift the Grand Slam, thought for years to just be an empty casing, with an RAF 8 Ton Coles Crane, it wouldn't budge. "Oh, it must be filled with concrete" they said. Then somebody had a horrible thought .... No!..... Couldn't be? ... Not after all these years out here open to the public to climb over and be photographed sitting astride! .... Could it? .... Then everyone raced off to get the Station ARMO. He carefully scraped off many layers of paint and gingerly unscrewed the base plate.
Yes, you guessed it, live 1944 explosive filling! The beast was very gently lifted onto an RAF 'Queen Mary' low loader, using a much larger civvy crane (I often wonder what, if anything, they told the crane driver), then driven slowly under massive police escort to the coastal experimental range at Shoeburyness. There it was rigged for demolition, and when it 'high ordered', it proved in no uncertain terms to anyone within a ten mile radius that the filling was still very much alive!
Exhaustive investigations then took place, but nobody could find the long-gone 1944, 1945 or 1946 records which might have shown how a live 22,000 lb bomb became a gate guard for nearly the next decade and a half. Some safety distance calculations were done, however, about the effect of a Grand Slam detonating at ground level in the open. Apart from the entire RAF Station, most of the northern part of the City of Lincoln, including Lincoln Cathedral, which dates back to 1250, would have been flattened.
Looks like the Soviets are bringing the Dad of all bombs online.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296441,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296441,00.html
Not to mention six times more powerful than the "brother and sister of all bombs" and twelve times more powerful than the "brother and sister's pet dog and cat of all bombs", but maybe not as powerful as the "estranged uncle and 'friend' (at least that is what the uncle says, although you are not exactly certain that they are just 'friends' because he is always at your uncles house, which is very clean and decorated btw, who plays the cello, loves to cook and is always curious about who does your sisters hair) of all bombs" which of course I mean is
im just kidding, I dont think atomic energy is gay....