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The MOAB--For Your Viewing Pleasure

Send more. If it saves ONE of our guys, or ONE of our guys legs, send more. The coward Obummer would send ground troops in to give Lawyers to the bad guys. Make powder out of those scumbags. Thank God there is a pair of balls in the Whitehouse.
 
I'm disappointed I didn't see any flying body parts. I prefer the limbs, myself!
I myself would like to see some heads roll.

Try explaining that to a Vetetans widow and her children it wasn't worth it. If it saves one American serviceman's life it was well worth it. It was already bought & paid for and just collecting dust. Send more!
And make more, Trump creating more jobs.
 
Daisy Cutter (BLU-82) was a 15,000 pound bomb. This one is 21,000 pounds, designed years after the Daisy. The MOAB (massive ordnance air blast) isn't a penetrator but was designed for soft targets. Only fifteen plus two test devices were built, so I guess fourteen remain. These cost $16,000,000. each.
MOAB (mother of all bombs) costs only $170,000.
 
MOAB (mother of all bombs) costs only $170,000.
"mother of all bombs" is slang. MOAB stands for Massive Ordnance Air Blast, the actual bomb is called a GBU-43/B. $170,000 is laughable, you don't get a 10+ ton, 30 foot long precision guided weapon for that price. A Hellfire missile with about 19 pounds of explosive costs $60,000 as an example. The McAlester Army Ammunition Plant did indeed charge 16 million each.

Even heavier is the BU-57A/B or Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), which is a 30,000 pound bomb designed to penetrate deeply before exploding. Though heavier, it has less of the weight in explosives. Boeing built 20 of these for a total of $314,000,000.
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"mother of all bombs" is slang. MOAB stands for Massive Ordnance Air Blast, the actual bomb is called a GBU-43/B. $170,000 is laughable, you don't get a 10+ ton, 30 foot long precision guided weapon for that price. A Hellfire missile with about 19 pounds of explosive costs $60,000 as an example. The McAlester Army Ammunition Plant did indeed charge 16 million each.

Even heavier is the BU-57A/B or Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), which is a 30,000 pound bomb designed to penetrate deeply before exploding. Though heavier, it has less of the weight in explosives. Boeing built 20 of these for a total of $314,000,000.
USAF_MOP_test_release_crop.jpg

The Democrats wanted people to think the MOAB costs that much (fake news).

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That 314 million figure was for the MOP bomb, people get their sources mixed up. Probably from this: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/16/business/la-fi-bunker-buster-bomb-20111117 If the MOAB was that dirt cheap, why didn't G. W. Bush order up a few hundred more of them? They were built under his watch.

Perhaps if you ignore all the development costs, the actual material value is close to the Business Insider figures. Frankly, I don't care what it cost, it's an impressive piece of hardware.
 
$16 million and only reporting 36 killed. It doesn't seem like it was that worth while of a target.
If none of our people were killed then it is worth it....
 
Daisy Cutter (BLU-82) was a 15,000 pound bomb. This one is 21,000 pounds, designed years after the Daisy. The MOAB (massive ordnance air blast) isn't a penetrator but was designed for soft targets. Only fifteen plus two test devices were built, so I guess fourteen remain. These cost $16,000,000. each.

Just for the record - I just read an article in Business Insider that states most of the reports on the cost on the MOAB by major outlets have been erroneous. The bomb was developed by the Air Force - not the big defense contractors like Boeing or others. True cost - about $170k. It's not that sophisticated of a weapon - it's just massive in size and internal explosives. At hat bargain price I say let's use it daily on those tunnel rats....
 
Did you read the article in post #50? Yes, the bomb was built by the Air Force. When was the last time the Air Force did something economically? You'd think they'd build their own planes if they could do it cheaper than Boeing or Lockheed Martin. There's no way to say the true cost is $170,000 since no costs were written down.

From the article: "...the Air Force doesn’t even keep track of the per unit cost, nor the cost of the program as a whole," which is somewhat alarming. How is the Air Force supposed to stay withing it's budget if it doesn't keep track of what it spends? Aren't they responsible to someone for spending money?

Later in that same article: "The Air Force then “produced more than 10 weapons and delivered them between April and May,” according to the Senate report, just nine weeks after the successful test. The rapid development of the weapon could have cost more than $314 million."
 
Yeah Photon - I didn't read that link article. Seems as though it was more detail than the one I read. I can see the point of foot prints but no physical real data to rely on. Maybe it did cost a bit more than what I read - $16 m seems a bit lofty though in any case. Who knows - I guess the bottom line is it kills many terrorists or gives them a headache they won't soon forget.
 
Send more. If it saves ONE of our guys, or ONE of our guys legs, send more. The coward Obummer would send ground troops in to give Lawyers to the bad guys. Make powder out of those scumbags. Thank God there is a pair of balls in the Whitehouse.
Many of you may not know, obummer gave 1.9 billion of your tax dollars to the muslim brother hood, EVERY YR.!
 
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