XPost: uk.politics.misc, uk.legal, alt.politics.uk   
   From: nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz   
      
   GB wrote:   
   > Omega wrote:   
   > > burfordTjustice wrote:   
   > > > Omega wrote:   
   > > > > burfordTjustice wrote:   
   > > > > >   
   > > > > > The USofA has dropped a MOAB in Afghanistan.   
   > > > > >   
   > > > > > Holy Moly! Game on!   
   > > > >   
   > > > > Okay this could be the start of something big but a huge bomb on   
   > > > > 'caves' in Afghanistan?   
   > > > >   
   > > > > Haven't we been there before?   
   > > > >   
   > > > > At best, a bomb aiming exercise,  100% perfect, , assuming they   
   > > > > actually hit a cave   ...   
   > > > >   
   > > > > At worst?  A group of dervishes resigned to a plight of rightfully   
   > > > > enjoying life.   
   > > > >   
   > > > > Just thinking   
   > > >   
   > > > Clearly you have no clue what a MOAB is designed to due.   
   > >   
   > > And clearly Burps, I'm sorry, you have missed my point.   
   > >   
   > > We watch a bomb dropped from a Herc,  makes a huge fucking splash above   
   > > ground over some mundane patch of land in the hills, to then be told,   
   > > several dozens of terrorists were killed in the explosion.   
   > >   
   > > I think I would like some corroborative evidence to back up that claim   
   > > in the present political climate.   
   > >   
   > > Considering the technology we have at our disposal, at the moment, we   
   > > have a very mediocre piece of video showing a puff of smoke out in the   
   > > middle of nowhere and fuck all else.   
   > >   
   > > I'll be first to my my hand up if anyone here can point the way!  I   
   > > would actually like it to be true!  Evidence?   
   >   
   > I'm apparently the only one to have reservations about this.   
   >   
   > Nevertheless, if I were the US trying to assess the damage done, I'd be   
   > aware of the approximate number of the opposition firing on friendly   
   > troops before the bombing. I'd be aware of the approximate number of the   
   > opposition firing on friendly troops since the bombing.   
      
   Supposedly, MOAB is an acronym, standing for "Massive Ordinace Air Blast:.   
      
   If that's true, it indicates some confusion of the part of its namers,   
   because it was (again, supposedly) designed as a "bunker-buster", in   
   the style of the British "earthquake" bombs of WW II. As an air blast   
   weapon, it would be a gross inefficiency: gas bombs give much more   
   bang for the buck, but as a shock weapon, penetrating deep before   
   exploding, it should cause a lot of damnage to inderground structures.   
      
   We're told that what we saw was just that, an attack on a cave or   
   tunnel system; if it was that, and accurate, the area is no longer   
   as asset for the enemy.   
      
   But it didn't look subterranean to me.   
      
   Ned   
      
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