On Thursday, the US military dropped a GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Burst (MOAB) bomb (aka, the "Mother Of All Bombs") on an ISIS base in Afghanistan. It's the first time the massive weapon has been used on the battlefield. The strike was reportedly aimed at destroying tunnels used by ISIS operatives.

What Is It?

The 21,600-pound MOAB is the US's most powerful weapon short of a nuclear device (here's a good rundown on the bomb's internals). The bomb is an "air burst" weapon, which means it explodes before it hits the ground to maximize the blast radius:


The idea behind an "air burst" weapon, as opposed to a weapon that explodes on impact with the ground, is to increase its destructive range. A bomb that penetrates the ground and then bursts tends to send all of its energy either down into the ground or straight up into the air. An air burst weapon sends a great deal of its energy out to the side.

http://digg.com/2017/moab-bomb-compared-nuclear

Was listening to KSSK this morning (my dad listens to it in the morning, so. . . ) and they covered this story.  Perry starts adding his 0.02 as he usually does ( where's the rolleyes emoticon? ) and he says something like "well, it's a 21,000 lb bomb, so the 21 kiloton bomb has got to be massive". . . He continues to talk out of his arse and all I can do is sigh and roll my eyes. . .

The liberal left media and everyone else is blowing this shit way out of proportion, just to slander the president.  The last president did how many drone strikes and many kilo tons of explosives on all types of targets, some of which VERY QUESTIONABLE....  yet what???  crickets.

In the moments after CNN first reported Thursday afternoon that the U.S. military
dropped the “mother of all bombs” on an ISIS tunnel in Afghanistan, their Wonderlist
host Bill Weir complained about the bomb’s significance, claiming it marked a sign
of “desperation” by the U.S. that won’t have an impact on destroying ISIS.

Weir cited the analogy being used of measuring the bomb’s blast in terms of football
fields as making him “uncomfortable.”

“Uncomfortable football-as-war metaphor: The size of the bomb is directly proportional
to a team’s desperation and rarely impacts the score,” Weir wrote.

http://digg.com/2017/moab-bomb-compared-nuclear

Was listening to KSSK this morning (my dad listens to it in the morning, so. . . ) and they covered this story.  Perry starts adding his 0.02 as he usually does ( where's the rolleyes emoticon? ) and he says something like "well, it's a 21,000 lb bomb, so the 21 kiloton bomb has got to be massive". . . He continues to talk out of his arse and all I can do is sigh and roll my eyes. . .

I didn't hear Perry's views on MOAB.  He usually has views that I agree with so I would give him a pass on his 21 KT equivalent.   I remember he was a Navy officer stationed at Pearl before being a Honolulu DJ.  Wikipedia says he was a submariner.   Not sure if he was nuke or on a diesel sub which the last at Pearl was the USS Barbel. Regardless I thank his service.
My opinion is that Perry is the only person in HI that could unseat Hanabusa, Schatz and Mazie if he decided to go into politics which I doubt.   He has the name recognition and a background way superior to these 3 clowns.

sTOP REPORTING FAKE NEWS,

This is a video of a boimb being used in Yemen back in 2014.