See query. “Lessons learned” can stay within GQ bounds quite easily, as has been done in many similar queries/threads with the military/technology/political matters on design and use and application in real war in our lives.
**[US drops largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan after Green Beret killed/B]
Damn those Moabites.
What is the question here?
I’m not sure what you’re asking, here… We’ve dropped these things plenty of times before, when we judged the tactical situation called for it, and I expect we have a fair number still in stores available for the next time we deem it necessary.
Perhaps the answer is Here?
Just to clarify for the OP why his post is hard to understand:
In the title of the post you seem to have asked three different questions:
The body of the post doesn’t make it any more clear what you’re asking.
All the stories say this is the first time used in combat.
Yeah, Chronos is thinking of daisy-cutters, not the MOAB.
It isnt some kind of nuclear device, just a very very big bomb, that you detonate before impact.
So i am not sure what the question or lesson or what ever is here?
I don’t know the question in this either, I’m just grateful someone asked it so that I could do a callback.
My guess is that it was a compromise between Pres. Trump and his advisors who had to convince him not to use actual nukes.
Not that nuking ISIS would be a bad thing, in my opinion…
Sure, other than the dead civilians, the radioactive fallout, and the legitimizing of the use of nuclear weapons for anyone and everyone else in the world, it isn’t a bad idea at all.
Hey, I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed…
Perhaps if you could get them all on some uninhabited atoll in the south pacific, unfortunately they are in close proximity to a lot of non baddies that would probably be a bit miffed at being everything from vaporized to burned to crushed to cancerized etc.
This.
How many left, budgeting and manufacturing line over and done?
Did they name this bomb just to make Donald happy?
If you resort to violence, you’ve already lost.
Sigh. Why can’t you write in complete sentences and say what you mean? Especially after it’s already been pointed out that your OP was unclear.
“How many left”. Ok, I think I understand this; you’re asking how many more bombs of this type the US has in its arsenal. Not very clearly worded, but ok.
“budgeting and manufacturing line over and done?” WTH does that mean? Is the word “budgeting” supposed to be shorthand for “how much does one of these bombs cost”? I don’t even know how to parse the rest of this string of words that I’ll grudgingly call a sentence.
Umm no…
Massive Ordnance Air Blast
Mother of all bombs is to counter russia’s Father of all bombs.
It replaced the daisey cutters in like 2008?
Was Trump president in 2008?
The “Lets make something up so i can say its a retarded trump thing” has really worn out it’s amusement, it’s like watching a 3 year old say the same thing over and over 900 times because it was funny once.
Apparently we have only 20 of them, at a cost of $16 million each.
