Largest non-nuke ever dropped by US

[phill4paul]

Wooo-hooo. Payback mutherfuckers!

The strike comes just days after a Special Forces soldier was killed in Nangarhar province. Staff Sgt. Mark De Alencar, of 7th Special Forces Group, was killed Saturday by enemy small arms fire while his unit was conducting counter-ISIS operations, according to the Defense Department.

The fact that the U.S. dropped the MOAB in the same province where De Alencar was killed is probably not a coincidence, said Bill Roggio, of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

“There might have been a degree of payback here as well,” Roggio told Military Times. “There’s certainly nothing wrong with that, especially if you’re killing your enemy.”

https://www.airforcetimes.com/articl...in-afghanistan

[EBounding]

So...what exactly is ISIS-K now? Is this the good ISIS or the usually bad ISIS?

[TheCount]

You mean future terrorists. Even ron paul would agree, that the families of people we bomb, have a higher chance of becoming terrorists.

No. Both you and Ron Paul are wrong. You see, after a long period of alt right education, I have learned that minor environmental factors such as their entire family being murdered are not responsible for the actions of people. Those people were already genetically terrorists before we bombed their families.

[timosman]

No, you're wrong. You see, after a long period of alt right education, I have learned that minor environmental factors such as their entire family being murdered are not responsible for the actions of people. Those people were already genetically terrorists before we bombed their families.

This is a very valid point. I am not sure how could anybody miss that.

[AuH20]

No. Both you and Ron Paul are wrong. You see, after a long period of alt right education, I have learned that minor environmental factors such as their entire family being murdered are not responsible for the actions of people. Those people were already genetically terrorists before we bombed their families.

The CIA and the Mossad are bound to embark on a torrid recruiting campaign after this setback.

[TheCount]

This is a very valid point. I am not sure how could anybody miss that.

It's a really common misunderstanding, actually. I'd lived in the dark for decades before I was enlightened (in the Political Philosophy subforum, of course) as to the genetic basis of the entirety of human action.

[timosman]

The CIA and the Mossad are bound to embark on a torrid recruiting campaign after this setback.

The volume of the applications went through the roof. Nobody wants to be the last one holding the bag.

[TheCount]

The CIA and the Mossad are bound to embark on a torrid recruiting campaign after this setback.

Why? Genetic terrorists are going to genetically terrorize regardless of anyone else's actions. It's genetically inevitable.

[timosman]

It's a really common misunderstanding, actually. I'd lived in the dark for decades before I was enlightened (in the Political Philosophy subforum, of course) as to the genetic basis of the entirety of human action.

Of course, but you have to admit genetics being a new science and all it is pretty easy to make this mistake. I guess I am trying to say do not be so hard on yourself now that you straightened yourself out.

[dannno]

No. Both you and Ron Paul are wrong. You see, after a long period of alt right education, I have learned that minor environmental factors such as their entire family being murdered are not responsible for the actions of people. Those people were already genetically terrorists before we bombed their families.

I've actually never heard that argument before, or anything like it.

I have heard the argument that a combination of blowback and religious extremism causing lower IQ refugees and others who aren't even refugees to take advantage of the situation and leave for Europe to live in socialist countries and that is causing the decline of Europe and much of western civilization.. but I haven't heard any arguments about low IQ causing terrorism, or US violence in the middle east not causing blowback.

[TheCount]

I've actually never heard that argument before, or anything like it.

That would be because you don't read your own posts before pressing the 'submit' button.

[AuH20]

Why? Genetic terrorists are going to genetically terrorize regardless of anyone else's actions. It's genetically inevitable.

Bomb making isn't a trial and error occupation.

[timosman]

This thread has been officially derailed.

[jmdrake]

If we can't drop nukes, let's build munitions that are even bigger then the nukes!!! MAGA you cucks!!!

Only thing that could make a MOAB greater is if it was filled with "depleted" uranium so it would be a dirty bomb too. MAGA! MAGA! MAGA MAGA MAGA!

[TheCount]

Bomb making isn't a trial and error occupation.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-blows-up.html

http://observer.com/2017/02/terroris...s-in-disguise/

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36283079

http://hamodia.com/2017/02/05/top-ha...work-accident/

[Danke]

I want this one, wonder if I can get it on the Russian black market.

"The US just dropped a 21,600-pound conventional bomb in Afghanistan. The bomb, the Massive Ordinance Air Blast, nicknamed the "Mother of All Bombs" because of its acronym, is the largest nonnuclear bomb in the US's arsenal. But Russia has an even bigger one.The so-called father of all bombs is about four times as big as the MOAB. It's a thermobaric bombwith a destruction radius of nearly 1,000 feet and a blast yield of nearly 44 tons of TNT.
Thermobaric weapons differ from conventional bombs in that they combine with atmospheric oxygen to greatly extend the blast radius.
Developed in 2007, the FOAB explodes in midair, igniting a fuel-air mixture. It is designed to vaporize targets and collapse structures, producing powerful blasts and aftershocks but without the same radioactive fallout."

[klamath]

That would be because you don't read your own posts before pressing the 'submit' button.

That cracked me up.

[Wooden Indian]

That would be because you don't read your own posts before pressing the 'submit' button.

[JK/SEA]

This thread has been officially derailed.

doesn't matter.

everyone in here is falling for this MSM fake news.

[AuH20]

There are some wicked things in those tunnels in Afghanistan and I'm not referring to the human kind.

[Anti Federalist]

It's a thermobaric bomb with a destruction radius of nearly 1,000 feet

Pffft...We had that $#@! 50 years ago...stoopid commies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBU-55

[phill4paul]

WTF? No footage of the MAGA MOAB? Sad.

[Jan2017]

There are some wicked things in those tunnels in Afghanistan and I'm not referring to the human kind.

I thought George W. was gonna nuke the whole mountain of Tora Bora when bin Laden got lost down in the cave tunnels

30 ft long MOAB is a thin aluminum shell, so that structure doesn't interfere with a shock wave blast that hits a one mile radius

[dannno]

That would be because you don't read your own posts before pressing the 'submit' button.

That is wrong, you have totally mischaracterized the argument into almost the opposite of what it is.

I've actually never heard that argument before, or anything like it.

I have heard the argument that a combination of blowback and religious extremism causing lower IQ refugees and others who aren't even refugees to take advantage of the situation and leave for Europe to live in socialist countries and that is causing the decline of Europe and much of western civilization.. but I haven't heard any arguments about low IQ causing terrorism, or US violence in the middle east not causing blowback.

Your post said that what was being argued was low IQ people causing terrorism because they are low IQ, and blowback not existing.

Sorry, but one of those has never been argued, and the other the precise opposite has been argued. So you lying and being intellectually dishonest.

[TheCount]

Your post said that what was being argued was low IQ people causing terrorism because they are low IQ, and blowback not existing.

Sorry, but one of those has never been argued, and the other the precise opposite has been argued. So you lying and being intellectually dishonest.

I must just be confused, then. So... some types of criminal behavior - such as murder and rape - are genetically based, but others - such as terrorism - are not. And the effects of environmental factors must be much larger on those non-genetic crimes than on the genetic crimes.

I guess I still have a lot of alt-right learnings to do.

[Pizzo]

doesn't matter.

everyone in here is falling for this MSM fake news.

So we didn't drop a Moab? Do you have any articles disputing that we did because I'd be interested in reading them. Thanks.

[undergroundrr]

So we didn't drop a Moab? Do you have any articles disputing that we did because I'd be interested in reading them. Thanks.

Looks to me like the MSM is printing a press release from trump's MIC proxy word for word. If it's fake news, it's trump's fake news.

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

So you [TheCount are] lying and being intellectually dishonest.

NO and No again! TheCount being disingenuous? Impossible! He is truly for liberty! I know that because he opposes Donald Trump!

[undergroundrr]

I guess I still have a lot of alt-right learnings to do.

If you hit yourself in the head a few times with a blunt object just right, it will all start to make sense.

[undergroundrr]

Wooo-hooo. Payback mutherfuckers!
https://www.airforcetimes.com/articl...in-afghanistan

Maybe Ivanka had an emotional reaction and acted accordingly. He left behind a wife and five kids. Raise a glass, this is for them.

http://www.militarytimes.com/photos/...r-returns-home