• Technology

    The Massive Ordnance Penetrator Will Be the Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb Ever

    By Dan Smith Posted on 8.3.2009 25 Comments

    The Pentagon is trying to speed up the deployment of an ultra-large bunker-busting bomb, which would constitute the largest non-nuclear bomb the U.S. has ever used. The Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, is a 30,000-pound bomb that would dive deeper than any previous bomb, and could be strapped to B-2 or B-52 bombers by July of 2010.

    8.9.2009 at 12:29pm - Comment by Nostradamus6006

    Not for use on a Nuclear Research facility, but for "causing an incident" at a Nuclear Reactor, I offer the Department of Defense the following idea: You launch from a missile or a high-altitude aircraft, from "way far away" and from "way up there" a Telephone-pole sized "harpoon" (obviously weighing close to a ton) made of solid Tungsten Steel, sharpenened to a pin-point and using GPS guided fins to steer it. You simply drop it onto the roof of the Nuclear Reactor Containment Building, causing a meltdown (See "Chernobyl"). No explosives would be needed, therefore no explosive signature to trace from debris flung far and wide. After dropping for over 200-miles using nothing but gravity, this spear should be going so fast that in all likelyhood nobody will see it hit, and it will become hopelessly embedded/buried many hundreds of feet down. There could be no markings on this baby, and the USA could easily deny having any part in it. Besides, it would be buried beneath a site now contaminated for hundreds of years. I see nothing. I know nothing. They literally wouldn't know what hit them. Heheheh!

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    FusionMan Makes Historic Jet-Propelled Flight

    By Abby Seiff Posted on 9.26.2008 8 Comments

    Following in the vapor trail of aviator Louis Bleriot, Yves Rossy made a historic flight of his own across the English Channel this morning. After yesterday's poor weather delayed his planned passage, Rossy—also known as FusionMan—became the first human to cross using jet propulsion.

    9.28.2008 at 09:49am - Comment by Nostradamus6006

    Does anyone know the top airspeed he achieved during the crossing? I trhink it's 21-miles distance, but how long did the crossing take? The video really doesn't answer that question because it's cropped. From the small size of the wingspan I think he must have been going incredibly fast to stay airborn.



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