Excellent news!

[Liability]

Here's the GREAT NEWS. An excerpt:

Pentagon eyes accelerated "bunker buster" bomb
Sun Aug 2, 2009 4:49pm EDT

* Bomb could be ready for B-2 bomber by July 2010

* Would deliver 10 times explosive power of predecessor

By Jim Wolf

WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - The Pentagon is seeking to speed deployment of an ultra-large "bunker-buster" bomb on the most advanced U.S. bomber as soon as July 2010, the Air Force said on Sunday, amid concerns over perceived nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran.

The non-nuclear, 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, which is still being tested, is designed to destroy deeply buried bunkers beyond the reach of existing bombs.

If Congress agrees to shift enough funds to the program, Northrop Grumman Corp (NOC.N)'s radar-evading B-2 bomber "would be capable of carrying the bomb by July 2010," said Andy Bourland, an Air Force spokesman.

"The Air Force and Department of Defense are looking at the possibility of accelerating the program," he said. "There have been discussions with the four congressional committees with oversight responsibilities. No final decision has been made."

The precision-guided weapon, built by Boeing Co (BA.N), could become the biggest conventional bomb the United States has ever used.

Carrying more than 5,300 pounds of explosives. it would deliver more than 10 times the explosive power of its predecessor, the 2,000-pound BLU-109, according to the Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency, which has funded and managed the seed program.

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{My slight little emphasis added.}Pentagon eyes accelerated bunker buster bomb | Industries | Industrials, Materials & Utilities | Reuters



Any guesses what our dear friends in Iran think of this military developement?

 

[JenT]

Here's the GREAT NEWS. An excerpt:

Pentagon eyes accelerated "bunker buster" bomb
Sun Aug 2, 2009 4:49pm EDT

* Bomb could be ready for B-2 bomber by July 2010

* Would deliver 10 times explosive power of predecessor

By Jim Wolf

WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - The Pentagon is seeking to speed deployment of an ultra-large "bunker-buster" bomb on the most advanced U.S. bomber as soon as July 2010, the Air Force said on Sunday, amid concerns over perceived nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran.

The non-nuclear, 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, which is still being tested, is designed to destroy deeply buried bunkers beyond the reach of existing bombs.

If Congress agrees to shift enough funds to the program, Northrop Grumman Corp (NOC.N)'s radar-evading B-2 bomber "would be capable of carrying the bomb by July 2010," said Andy Bourland, an Air Force spokesman.

"The Air Force and Department of Defense are looking at the possibility of accelerating the program," he said. "There have been discussions with the four congressional committees with oversight responsibilities. No final decision has been made."

The precision-guided weapon, built by Boeing Co (BA.N), could become the biggest conventional bomb the United States has ever used.

Carrying more than 5,300 pounds of explosives. it would deliver more than 10 times the explosive power of its predecessor, the 2,000-pound BLU-109, according to the Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency, which has funded and managed the seed program.

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{My slight little emphasis added.}Pentagon eyes accelerated bunker buster bomb | Industries | Industrials, Materials & Utilities | Reuters



Any guesses what our dear friends in Iran think of this military developement?

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

But we will probably be contacted by various Sharia respecting banks that we've been borrowing money from soon

 

[KittenKoder]

Cool, a non-nuclear bomb, that is good news actually ...

 

[Liability]

Cool, a non-nuclear bomb, that is good news actually ...

And certain allegedly deeply buried and fortified locations where atomic weapons COULD be produced for use by certain irrational, insane, Islamofascist governments and their assorted sordid friends could end up being on the receiving end of the new MOPs.

A non-nuclear bomb to prevent development and deployment of nuclear weapons.

I likes it!