The great baddaboom that could ruin Iran’s last remaining nuclear enrichment grow from the atmosphere actually has just one fighter and one weapon.
I honestly had no idea what options were available to me when I claimed that the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant ( FFEP ) was the only “path to peace” with the Islamic Republic earlier today. In addition, some distress was expressed in the responses.
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I’ve done the studies and cleared it up, if you’ll give me five more.
Numerous VIP readers expressed enthrallement over dropping a MOAB on Fordow. A few MOABs, if they were to get Fordow off the image, would be nice, but at 30 feet long, more than three feet in diameter, and with 18, 700 pounds of H-6, a high-explosive mix more powerful than TNT.
No that quickly. MOAB, formally known as the GBU-43, doesn’t produce the appropriate bubble.
Everything is contained in the title.
MOAB stands for Massive Ordnance Air Burst, a term that everyone associates with the family of all weapons.
However, “air collapse” is crucial. The large MOAB is pushed out of a cargo plane by a chute before impact, and its unique fuse causes everything to go BOOM a few feet above the ground, destroying pretty much everything within a large — but vertical — mile-wide storm radius.  ,
In other words, MOAB is useful when you want to immediately wipe aside a large number of doods on the ground. However, what the U.S. navy refers to as a Massive Ordnance Penetrator when you need to reach out and touch one strong underwater. Yes, that’s a MOP that is used to remove those serious spots.
There’s no way” MOP” could ever sound nearly as cool as” Mother of All Bombs,” so I fully understand the confusion.
And there’s another point: I still have the feeling that Israel would rather use force and force to accomplish Fordow. The options for the Air Force are the subject of this paragraph.
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The GBU-57 MOP is still a formidable creature in its own right. While MOAB is only about 50 % bigger than MOP (!!! ) It weighs 30 000 weight, which is less than one-third as many explosive material. The GBU penetrates up to 200 feet underground using a combination of absolute mass, dried steel, Mach 1 speed, and GPS pinpoint accuracy before its little computer brain tells the 5, 300 pounds of large explosive to get BOOM.
The difference between MOAB and MOP is like igniting a bigger firework inside your clenched fist, to use a phrase from” Armageddon.” The first one is going to sting, but the next one could tear your hands off.  ,
And as far as we are aware, no other nation has an air-dropped penetrator anything like the GBU-57, not even the Russians or the Chinese. Not even close.  ,
MOAB over MOP, then. You have to put that poor boy on goal, though.
What I wasn’t aware of until today was that the B-2 Spirit big stealth bomber can have the GBU-57. I had assumed that our other two major bombers, the venerable B-52 Stratofortress and the obscene B-1 Lancer, could wield it simply because of their length and payload capacity.
Not at all.
Our older aircraft ‘ inner compartments are simply too large for the GBU-57. Perhaps our tiny ships of Souls had to be redesigned for it. The suspect’s circular rocket needed modifications, new software to combine the bomber with the bomb, and more avionics to tackle the big MOP’s distinctive characteristics during flight and release… I didn’t realize until now that this much work went into making it occur.
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I assume that the B-21 Raider was created from the ground up with the big MOP in mind while it is currently being tested and in low-rate initial production ( LRIP ).
It makes sense that the Air Force only used the GBU-57 because it is reserved for the highest-priority, hardest-to-reach goals. In 48 hours, the explosion’s designers had no means to anticipate that an allies nation may do us respect, and it’s not the kind of prefer you’d always count on.
However… nifty, eh?
But there you have it. The GBU-57 is the only weapon that you reach Fordow ( and it might require more than one ). And the B-2 is the only plane that you take it.
Anyone know of a man who may negotiate a creative rent on two or three of the following?
Procedure Rising Lion: The Mullahs Are Out of Cards — Except One is highly recommended.
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