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.
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!
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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