93henfan wrote:As a person whose job it was to divvy out close air support and who has seen just about every common aircraft and artillery-deployed munition and incendiary used right in front of my own eyes on targets of my selection, I don't think anybody truly comprehends the scale of the MOAB.
Our biggies were Mk84s, which are 2,000 lb conventional air-dropped bombs. All I can say is, they are an effect to behold. The crater they leave is massive and they throw up a mini mushroom cloud.
And the MOAB is ten times as heavy. Ouch.
The overpressure has to be lethal for at least a mile radius
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