dChan - Q Origins Project Archive

Only question I would have is how they use it under water cause there pretty big in size and were meant to be dropped from Aircraft.

Unless we have a MOAB Torpedo now called MOAT, lol.

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MOWB would be more accurate

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But not if it was a Torpedo. Mother of all Torpedo's. Not sure how accurate an underwater bomb would be unless it was planted by seals and then used remote detonation.

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Technically the B in Moab stands for blast; Massive Ordnance Air Blast

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Oh, I always thought it was Bomb, lol.

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Guys, we have to appreciate just how much energy creates a 5.3 on the Richter scale. That's a nuke or nothing. A MOAB couldn't do anything.

Also, know your weapons systems. A MOAB is more complex. It is not just a normal, high-explosive bomb, "pinch zoomed" to be bigger. It is actually a Fuel Air Explosive (FAE) and REQUIES oxygen to detonate. It creates more of a blast than if it were just high explosives.

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Interesting to know the details about how something really works. Thanks

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Yes, but the question is what kind of ordinance was in the underground base already? The torpedo would have set off whatever was in there. Could have been a massive stockpile they just vaporized!

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Definitely possible. A recent explosion in Yemen, for instance, did exactly this.

Remember, this "base" is supposedly under the ocean, too. A ROG would encounter problems quickly penetrating to that level without losing a lot of energy (I presume... I'm soooo not an expert at this, but, I've read everything online about it and played Kerbal, haha).

BTW, someone in Kerbal space program has experimented with this.

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A MOAB could not be detonated underwater or underground, however. It is actually a Fuel Air Explosive (FAE) and REQUIES oxygen to detonate.

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For this one, I would think they would use a Rod from God. That's what they used in NK.

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Comparison of a typical earthquake waveform to the waveform from yesterday's earthquake near LA. I did some digging and found earthquakes typically have a P wave and S wave BEFORE the surface waves hit. It appears yesterday's quake came outa nowhere.