$314 million for one bomb that does more damage to terrain than any enemies.

You could have dropped 1000 cluster bombs for the same price and done way more targeted damage, or 10000 JDAMS / Laser guided bombs.

This is all just Trumps ego. He wanted to show how serious he is, and nobody would let him drop a nuke, so they used his short attention span to dangle this MOAB in from of him to make him feel good.

"Yeah, yeah, it's the biggest one we have"

He's not even good at war mongering.

Would jizz in my pants if a JDAM went off and vaporized every last one of these nitwits.

Wow, what a talented display of culture. Set off a JDAM in that stadium and move the species forward a small percentage.

cute baby. in 18 years he'll be fighting in Taiwan and the mother will work in a JDAM factory

Word.

Except the part about drugs. I want to be able to decide that for you.

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@deedub81:

personally, I'd like to decide whach "recreational supplements" I can ingest, which countries we invade.

Both of those decisions were made for me, primarily by republican administrations, and both of which cost the country far, far more than things like education and health care.

For example:
The War on Drugs costs the federal govt $19,000,000,000 per year, or $600 per second. The states combined spend more than that, bringing the total up to 50 billion.

the GBU-39 bomb costs $70,000 per bomb.
the JDAM tailkit, which isn't even a bomb, but a guidance system, costs $21,000, with a projected inventory of 240,000 ($5,040,000,000 total cost).
Tomahawk cruise missiles cost $1.3 million each.


Consider that the median annual household income in the US is $48,000. A single GB-38 bomb vaporizes more US dollars than 1.5 citizens earn in a year.


Personally, given a choice between funneling huge amounts of money to multi-national companies owned by billionaires, or towards improving the lives of Americans (self included), I'd rather go with the latter.

Also, let us examine federal deficit, which has risen under every non-democrat administration in the past 30 years. the only administration to actually demonstrate fiscal responsibility and generate a surplus was Clinton, a Democrat.

@deedub81:

personally, I'd like to decide whach "recreational supplements" I can ingest, which countries we invade.

Both of those decisions were made for me, primarily by republican administrations, and both of which cost the country far, far more than things like education and health care.

For example:
The War on Drugs costs the federal govt $19,000,000,000 per year, or $600 per second. The states combined spend more than that, bringing the total up to 50 billion.

the GBU-39 bomb costs $70,000 per bomb.
the JDAM tailkit, which isn't even a bomb, but a guidance system, costs $21,000, with a projected inventory of 240,000 ($5,040,000,000 total cost).
Tomahawk cruise missiles cost $1.3 million each.


Consider that the median annual household income in the US is $48,000. A single GB-38 bomb vaporizes more US dollars than 1.5 citizens earn in a year.


Personally, given a choice between funneling huge amounts of money to multi-national companies owned by billionaires, or towards improving the lives of Americans (self included), I'd rather go with the latter.

Also, let us examine federal deficit, which has risen under every non-democrat administration in the past 30 years. the only administration to actually demonstrate fiscal responsibility and generate a surplus was Clinton, a Democrat.

jdam, apply directly to bunker

It could very easily have been a JDAM - the JDAM is simply a guidance package that attaches to a wide variety of ordnance (including the BLU-109 "bunker buster") in order to allow for GPS guidance as opposed to laser guidance. I am also not convinced that it was a bunker buster, the crater you mentioned is easily created with a standard Mk84 bomb, regardless of guidance package used. A hard target penetrator bomb (bunker buster) won't necessarily leave a larger crater than a standard bomb, but is designed to penetrate more deeply into a hardened target, such as a concrete bunker, before exploding.

This is not a JDAM!!! It's a bunker buster, most likely a GBU-28. They are guided by laser and have nothing to do with JDAMs. Here's a longer video of the same test:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuniKsBxZ10

JDAMs don't leave craters like this.

The military probably has actual footage of kills from laser guided whatevers where you could probably sit down and count heads and come up with more than 30,000.

Heck in just pre-May 2003, the US and Brits used at least 13,000 cluster munitions, and in the air war before invasion, let's see 40,000 sorties flown and 30,000 bombs + 1,000 more cluster bombs.

I mean.. 5,000 JDAM 1-ton GPS guided bombs.... 1,000 cruise missles.... just in the bombing campaign... You think those things miss? This is all before a single bullet was fired. So yeah, probably a million dead.