MOAB: The Mother of All Bombs 

I thought it was Mother Of All Bombs

Shocked that they completely glossed over this fact.

@LTNetjak you mean Glorious People’s Largest Massive Ordinance Air Blast

@@awake3112 GPLMOAB Really rolls right off the tongue

Definitely Massive Ordinance Air Blast. Mother of all bombs just sounds better to the press/public and does have a ring to it.

Air Blast but yep, you're absolutely right there friend!

Was about to point that out

I'm surprised Simon didn't give the actual official name for the acronym.

way to steal a comment chief

and how the holly fucking did you get more likes than the comment you stole on the same video

Bruh 😂😂😂

Warwick Davis is an underrated unit of measurement.

I just wanted to add it weighs just short of one Oprah.

@@NotaVampyre111 are you sure it's only a bit short?

U rock

Look up the BLU-118/B. It was specifically designed to create a Shockwave that would travel through the tunnels and kill by rupturing internal organs rather than the frag of the bomb body

The good thing is , it might eliminate a few bat caves...And the next country that turns a man made virus on the world should be wiped out by nuclear weapons with no exception for fauci or gates

raymond wagoner wtf how does that even relate....

@@raymondwagoner7735 you sod

Trouble for Jihad

They should denounce putting bombs on their own civilians instead 

Or as Civilization would have put it: A recent news article revealed that ISIS has denounces the evil deeds of America. A recent news article revealed that a massive earthquake has struck Canada. A recent news article revealed that Simon has started another RU-vid channel. A recent news article revealed that India is trading with India.

Not as shocked at they are when the bomb hits. Ba-dum-dum-pshhhhh

They were shocked too....for a microsecond. Then they were red mush.

And the media sided with ISIS

Hello darkness my old friend

that is amazing that is what happened to me

Literally me at almost 3 am

Better learn something like this instead scrolling through some cancer apps

@Bob you funny bastard!! 😂😂

They needed such huge bombs because their targeting was so awful. It's better now so they don't need big bombs.

This isn't true at all... The bomb was so massive & impractical, the pilot was given only a 50/50 chance of survival. Both sides already knew at that point they could technically create larger & larger bombs, it was just a matter of "how useful & practical is this?" A plane carrying something the size of the Tsar Bomba wouldn't have the range, speed or height needed to get anywhere for practical purposes. Soviets & the US both knew these larger bombs would be pointless aside from tests, and that the REAL advantage & power came from ICBM's that were going to be game changing. Both sides began battling it out for longer range, more accurate & more efficient warheads that could be strapped to ICBM's carried by nuclear subs, & silos, as well as more conventional bombs that could successfully make their way to enemy soil. The Tsar Bomba was originally intended to yield 100 MT instead of 50, but thankfully they decided to scale it back. The point is they already knew they COULD make it, but even at 50 MT, it was excessive as it was (and that's not even factoring in the radiation & fallout concerns all sides had as they became more educated).

Staging actually makes any size bomb possible. Practical? How big does a bomb really need to be with the resulting fallout?

Theoretically, you could build a massive cobalt bomb of several tens of gigatons. Such a device could not be delivered by a plane or a missile, but it wouldn't matter. Detonating it anywhere would cause lethal fallout in both Russia and America, and the deterrent effect is achieved.

That's what they say. More like it failed.

This is an under rated comment

Should be called “how to clear hundreds of small caves in a second weapon” so the enemy isn’t misled 🤣

ISIS: "Quickly Achmed! Kill some civilians and bring their bodies to the bomb site, then find the nearest CNN camera crew! They'll believe anything we say!"

@Eric Smith lmao

@Smith Johnson Your tin foil hat is showing.

I was gonna comment this. The USA has the best soundtrack in the game, too. :D

Ptsd support for gla vetrons is terrible

I liked the laser general best. Them laser turrets were badass

I think we can agree as enjoyable the vanilla game was, the numerous mods was where the fun began.

I was thinking more along the lines of Mercenaries 2 Playground of Destruction

That's the idea.

it stands for mediocre offensive asshole baby's and they're basically useless/

Top secret weapons don't exist outside of when they're still in the development or test phase. The primary purpose of any weapon is it's deterrent value. What practical sense would it make to fully develop a weapon and bring it into production, only to spend more time and resources trying to hide its existence? What purpose would it serve?

Not really about the bomb, rather the desicions of the people who deploy them. If you use daisy cutters to bomb fox holes then the problem does not lie in the bomb itself, you're shooting sparrows with cannons.

But they won tho?

I've heard that one is a real bitch.

I thought the Geneva convention outlawed it's use due to the cruelty of it's use on underpaid staff... But seriously tons of respect, I know how hard it is to build funny acronyms that also make sense

That's not a bomb, its a conservative suicide vest.

You mean Kill And Render Enemies Neutered.

@@seanbrazell6147 Karen is any woman who thinks she is entitled to special treatment and berates people who do not give in to her demands. She can have any skin color and hold any political belief. The only stipulation is that she be upper or middle class.

So do mot limeys, just Simon being a bit, well, Simon.

@chase weeks God bless 'Murica :-)

As a Brit', I also pronounce her acronym as "Mow~Abb".

Fun fact: many Americans know its pronunciation because it was a top news story for its initial test and its later use cited in this video, both of which received full segments on major networks. What a world, what a world.

@@Prototyp3m1nd, eh, I learned about it as just part of being in the army. Figured it was pronounced that way because of an area in Utah with the same name.

Everything in the military is labeled General Purpose or GP. Tents, jeeps, etc. Hell, even soldiers have been labeled GI (Government Issue) as long as I am aware.

Get your MOAB at your local Walmart 20% discount limited time.

excellent piece for home defense.

According to some people you could probably buy one with no background check in the Walmart parking lot. Or even have it delivered right to your door.

The scary thing is how easy it would be to make one in the UK. It would be even easier in the USA. And no I'm not going to say how it's done.

Will be used to disburse protestors😂

Nice! I live about 5 miles away from eglin!

Same for when they were doing bomb testing in lake Palestine in northeastern Florida

Yo, I live on the other side of the res from dude just above me. Between the AF doing their thing, and Navy EOD doing their thing, every Tuesday and Thursdays you would hear loud distant BOOM's. Also fun fact the old Doolittle training airfield is right off of highway 285 right there between us. Went out there one day and just to stand on the runway and understand what went down right there. All the training. Idk it was really surreal.

My dad heard them in Freeport.

One of the charms of living in a always at war country, I suppose

Tsar bomba just showed diminished returns. You could go bigger, but it didn’t make a difference. But what Ivan was afraid of was catching the Earths air on fire.

They were also worried it would set the atmosphere on fire and burn up natural ozone.

The large blast radius was a workaround for mediocre accuracy: As long as you can hit _near_ the target, you can be sure of destroying it. Obviously that means your launcher has to be bigger, though, which means it can't be mobile - the Tsar Bomba's launcher was the UR-500, also known as the Proton, and it was so enormous that they later used it to launch modules for the International Space Station. Once integrated circuits became available in the mid-1960s (for the West, at least), they could build smaller ICBMs with multiple independent re-entry vehicles that are precise enough that you can cram the same amount of destruction into, say, a submarine-launched ballistic missile that you used to need a 174-foot-tall Proton missile or a 100-foot-tall Titan II missile.

If they are dropped at a certain height it causes what's called an aerial burst. This spreads out the blast sphere I would say rather than radius. A spherical blast is much more destructive than hitting the ground.if it hits the ground most of the energy is lost.

Yeah, but the USA won’t drop it on themselves.... And yet the USA has been engaged in terrorism for decades.

Not very good value for money though is it?

@@TheLinkoln18 Look out everyone.....we have a Democrat in our midst.....

@@Vladpryde As the majority of terrorism in the USA is domestic and carried out by those who support the Republicans, and as the recent terrorist attacks from the USA have occurred under Republican presidents..... Tell me about these rascal democrats.. Really the clue is in the party names... Democrats, democratic, democracy. Republicans, Fascist, Republic.

@@TheLinkoln18 LMAO, you forgot a few things there kid.....Democrats: KKK, Jim Crow, Segregation, Slavery, 90,000,000 different genders, Anarchy, emotions instead of logic and rational reasoning, taking away Constitutional Right to Arms, and murdering the unborn. So explain to me again how the Republicans are the fascists? Which, by the way, is a term that some idiot Liberal on Twitter pulled out of their ass because they are trolls, and that's what trolls do. First they used the term "racist"....until they started exposing their own racism. Then they went to "bigot", but that didn't have the same ring to it, and people called them stupid for using it. And now the latest fad: calling anyone Right of Lenin a "fascist". And just like before, it's not going to work. But that's the Democrat party for you: made up of trolls, emotional children with blue hair, anarchists, batshit crazy and nosy Karens, and closeted racists. Now go spray paint a monument, douche.

OMG I am in total agreement with your statement!

This is aggression I can get behind!

Peaceful riots

Haha billy you savage

Billy...We been trying to reach you about your car warranty....

Yep! war is diplomacy in its ultimate form.

250,000 well spent

But Orange Man Bad likes it so CNN told me I have to hate it... lol

@@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55 no problem. if u MAGA rats love MOAB so much, u will receive a surprise next 6 January...

@@fabioartoscassone9305 Not gonna happen.

@Heinrich Heinrich they are the same kind of scumbag of their friends of Raqqa

This is a lie, how high were they jumping from to impale themselves that they wouldn't see or be hurt from blunt force without a tree.

@@Georgecurtis123they were probably parachuting

​@@Georgecurtis123 🤣

​@spiderbeef7913 jumped out of planes, they jumped out of planes, lad.

I heard the original Moabs were built to contain 1 Chris Christie each

It is said it weighs 239lbs but everyone knows it weighs 339 lbs. Let's call it the Trump.

And a net yield of 8.43 Michael Bays

😂

@@Jfc1224 lol

Spyros Panopoulos

A telephone pole flying towards you is pretty terrifying. A telephone pole flying at mach 10 is even more terrifying. A telephone pole made of fucking tungsten flying at mach 10? NOPE

You've never seen my mother-in-law when she's hungry... nothing is more scary than that.

@@AkaAka_AkaAka I don't know you but I believe you

The Bunker Busters were old Battleship Gun Tubes packed with high-explosives and a guidance system added to them. They would penetrate the earth at high velocity, much like an Arrow, then detonate underground destroying their target. Literally designed on napkins in a Bar by a couple of Engineers discussing the problem.

A Catholic priest

Your a saint

Israel got 20 of those from America.

@@raymondwagoner7735 good

Not to mention, no civilian casualties, there was a claim that in a town distanced from the blast the teacher and her son were killed by it but I can't find any more information on it. Whereas before with the large number of failed drone strikes causing civilian casualties and not actually killing any ISIS personnel, this single bomb managed to get at least 36 this was a large improvement in the last couple of years.

Of course it was a success. If it had been a failure, the Trump administration would honestly tell us, wouldn't they?

Very good point. It’s not about the number of jihadis, they can always find more recruits, it’s about destroying their logistical operations to slow down their ability to carry out training and attacks on ISAF and the Afghan government. Judging the success of a mission or battle purely by the numbers was a huge problem during the Vietnam war. We don’t do that much anymore. It’s about tangible results now.

Yeah, if you look at stills of the thermal footage, you can see a bunch of black lines radiating out from the blast. Those are tunnel complexes being cooked from the heat and overpressure. It would have likely taken a significantly more costly quantity of conventional bombs to dig them all out. Add in the fact that the MOAB stockpile is coming up on its use-by date, and the deployment was a no-brainer.

They stole the CIA's heroin? No wonder we bombed them.

It depletes all the oxygen from the air and if the blast don't get you, you die from lack of oxygen.

@@raymondwagoner7735 Nope, that is not how it works. Not at all. If you are close enough to notice the lack of oxygen, you are already mush.

Nonsense hype. The MOP Massive Ordnance Penetrator was for cave complexes. The Air Blast is for above ground.

@@JFrazer4303 Pretty much, the only active use of the MOAB was to take out an ISIS tunnel complex in Afghanistan. I suspect by collapsing the tunnels with the massive blast wave, comparable to a small nuke. I think the MOP is intended for penetrating exceptionally thick bunker walls, but it is not out of its testing phases yet, as far as I know.

it stands for mediocre offensive asshole baby's and they're basically useless/

Do you also remember the time of MTV broadcasting music? ...The time I thought the future would be better. :-/

I grew up near the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant and once I joined the military spent a few days there. The plant is very proud of the MOAB and have a mock-up of it near the DFAC and administrative buildings.

I do actually remember MTV. It was never good in my opinion. Congrats man. It's good to take pride in what ya build.

Careful, showing your age there.

RIP Mac.

Mean looking plane tbh And I know it's cliche but thanks for your service

I flew the E and J slick. I miss them terribly. Always wanted to do the MC but didn’t want the TDY’s. Later transitioned to the MQ-9. I was flying the aircraft that filmed this footage that day. Thanks for your service, brother.

Must've been a thing and a half to fly. Amazing to see people like this I'm British but what you did was amazing thank you

3 times actually

Ah, like when Krakatoa erupted

I thought it was a blast!

The video was fire

That was also part of the reason they used the nukes on Japan. They worked out aprox. how many US casualties attacking the Japanese home islands would cause and basically said "Fuck that idea, we have these neat bombs we had planned to use on Germany but they lost the war before the bombs were ready for use". All the US needed was to have a base close enough to Japan for the bomber to be able to fly a round trip mission.

@F. Friedrich Kling Hauss we're still there because we're fighting with our feet bound and a hand behind our back. We can't fight the way we need too.

Screams in Stuka/V1 rocket

@F. Friedrich Kling Hauss Biden said it won't - do you want facts or something?

Where has that ever happened in modern times

I was a 13b in my army stint. They don't call us the king of battle for nothing.

well they shouldn't have touched our boats.

@@aidanacebo9529 fr lmao

@@busimagen money printer also go brrrrr

@John Doe haha inflation goes brrrr

I think moab goes boom

No, no. ISIS is kind of the authority on war crimes. They would know one when they see one.

good thing isis doesnt set the standard for a war crime XD

Alien?

Yup

Wow, a great quote!!! That and the quote from my other favorite Ridley Scott film with ‘tears in rain’...

Good one .

@@myownboss1 the fact that the tears in the rain line was an improvisation makes it even better. Amazing movie.

Brown countries?

Hi

The enamy

Anyone who is not from USA, Russia or China

@@alligator94gaming2 misspell

that wd disrupt the popes compassionate narrative

That and air force officers really don’t like using it. The other thing he got wring was President Trump gave permission to strike the base, not the weapon choice. We really weren’t supposed to use it that day, instead using smaller thermobarrics.

Hey, "almost" counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, Global Thermonuclear War,..... ......and now the MOAB.

If we deploy an emp weapon, let’s name it Hillary Clinton. For its power to delete emails and destroy electronic devices.

And leaves is one hell of a body count behind its wake.

@@manofcultura I second this

@@manofcultura This; or just "The Clinton" XD. The Tillman Battleships were after all also named for an odious politician.

After the MOAB, the logical next is BFB, the Big Fucking Bomb. If that’s not enough, you can go for the ZOMG, the Zealous Ordinance of Mass Granulation.

Would you say business is.... Blazing?

i see what you did there ;)

Ferengi Rules Of Acquisition #34: "War is good for business."

U mean business is BLASTING

what, are we in the business of dealing Actual information? o_0

@@pikkuhukkis lol

@rwsthedemonking Yes it is true. The charge detonates approximately 2 meters before impact, therefore it is an air burst. If you don't believe me about the name, feel free to check some sources. www.defense.gov/observe/photo-gallery/igphoto/2001732840/ www.defensenews.com/air/2017/04/13/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-mother-of-all-bombs/

@rwsthedemonking Except the Air force specifically named it Massive Ordinance Air Blast and you're full of BS.

@rwsthedemonking Considering that my first source was the United States Department of Defense, I'm not to worried about the accuracy of the information. Have fun with the guys around town bud.

Air blast

@@danieljamescrow Air blame?air banana? air boom?

Air Biache..

​@@fabioartoscassone9305 air blimp

Air breast

He's not a dud. He's done an excellent job of overtaxing this, ruining the economy, and making prices skyrocket. He's a very successful president for the boneheads that voted for him.

@@dankuchar6821 literally boned heads voted for him. Those guys still manage to vote even they are 100++ years old and 6ft under.

Yes, we can, because it sure is a big mother!

Big bomb makes a Big Bang!!!!

Mother nature: *laughs in plagues*

It makes me wonder how he got to be Pope. An important part of being a priest is being able to understand the Bible. This means you have to know about Cultural Artefacts that define the semantic range (range of definitions) of a word. Cultural artefacts not only change over time and by culture but even by city within that culture. That is critical for good critical engagement with any text. He should know that.

Mothers also kills it’s called an abortion

“The de-escalator”

Actually it doesn't make a crater, it creates a cloud of fuel vapor and ignites it, this creates an overpressure like a nuclear bomb, and if it doesn't collapse the target, it sucks all the air out of the target and suffocated those inside.

@@kdrapertrucker doesnt exactly roll off the tongue as well, but thanks for the info

*groundbreaking*

How about "Defender of the Faith" like everything else that killed Muslims and got the support of Holy Mother Church?

Don't listen to this Bullshit troll lmao, he says the DOD is wrong when it comes to the munitions' real name.

@rwsthedemonking You get bombed every day in Oklahoma eh? I'm sure. Go LARP with your xbox friends

Hey 69 ah yes multiple speed traps

You can set your clocks by the start of the blasts at 11:00 AM. A few minutes later, you can see the plume rise from the south-southwest. McAlester is a neat place to live.

I'd say so. Also, I'm pretty sure making bombs bigger than the Tsar results in the extra power of the explosion dissipating into space.

Even with that they only gave like 50% chance the plane would make it back in one piece. At 100 megatons the plane would probably just get vaporised into plasma…

The Russians needed to find a guy that could outrun the fuse he just lit...LOL

Yes, look up the Halifax, Canada explosion of the Second World War. A fully loaded ordinance supply ship in the harbour had it's entire cargo at once somehow.

The Halifax explosion occured during World War I

That's a good idea. You should patent it and sell it for half the price. A shipping container full of explosives is another alternative. Makes logistics easier.

'Murica.

Same here

All mother in laws and wives are like that .

@@abbush2921 I like to think mine was the worst

Would you like it to be tested on her, maybe?

@@HoLeeChit11 No. The bomb would likely destroy everything and everyone around her but still not get the job done.

Defeating North Korea isn't the problem. Defeating China is the problem.

@@phamnuwen9442 The problem isn't even that. The issue is defeating them without slaughtering everyone and becoming a worse monster. We need to take a page from The Art of War and gain victory without fighting. Too bad China literally wrote the book.

So, you suggest to massacre a whole country because you don't like its leader? Really boosts my faith in humanity!

@@ButtKickington Why are people even suggesting that China or NK should be defeated?? They are not seeking war, USA is!!! Biden even attacked Trump for meeting with Kim, suggesting that there shouldn't be any diplomacy, just war! I'm amazed at how blood-thirsty American leaders are!

@@FedericoLucchi I agree. I said victory without fighting. No war, no bloodshed would be the best thing. Glad to see diplomacy beginning to shake-out in the middle-east too. The human rights violations of China and North Korea are morally reprehensible, but not nearly as bad as war could be. China and North Korea were both divided into two countries by wars that never really ended. Taiwan and Hong Kong want their freedom and North and South Korea are still split. If there's ever going to be peace, the gaps needs to be bridged. It's not so much defeating a country, but resolving an ongoing conflict.