| From: | Jason 'Ding' Dowd jdowd@****.edu |
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| Subject: | [OT] Fuel Air Bombs : Another question? |
| Date: | Thu, 15 Apr 1999 09:27:18 -0700 |
>Oh, btw, it is my considered opinion that the mid-sized
>FAE weapon in the US arsenal is a lot more potent that
>the 18k pound Daisy Cutter that was mentioned before.
The 18,000lbs bomb isn't a Daisy Cutter, that's a
different type of weapon. A Daisy Cutter was used in
Vietnam to clear areas of forest, and IIRC they weighed
in at around 30k lbs, but since they were a specialized
type of weapon, the explosive force wasn't as great.
I'm still pretty certain that the 18k bomb is the
largest in explosive power in our arsenal, and I will
try to find the article that I read that in.
I do know, and you can look this up, that the troops in
the gulf thought we'd used a nuclear weapon when we
dropped an 18k on Iraq. The mushroom cloud was visible
for quite a long distance. Offhand I don't recall the
target it was dropped on, but for a short time
everyone thought we had nuked Iraq because the blast
was so huge.
Anyway, I will try to find some documentation.
Jason "Ding" Dowd
http://home.san.rr.com/jdowd
"There is no problem in this world that cannot be solved by the
judicious application of high explosives."
