Not sure that's 8000lbs of bomb. I'd expect 3.6 metric tonnes of explosives go off a little more than that.
Submitted by brainwipe on Wed, 2007-10-31 15:57
Well that's what they say you know how much you can trust the military on such things. Seems to take out a three story hotel pretty good even then :D
Submitted by Evilmatt on Wed, 2007-10-31 16:06
8000lbs would be the weight of the total device, I seem to remember about 1/2 the weight of a bomb is actually explosive, thats still a shite load.
Submitted by Dwain on Wed, 2007-10-31 17:02
I was watching the mythbusters episode 22,000 Ft fall which features a 1000lb bomb just over half of which is high explosive. It makes a hell of a mess, I guess the label on this is wrong or else the scale of the video is much larger than it appears.
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Not sure that's 8000lbs of bomb. I'd expect 3.6 metric tonnes of explosives go off a little more than that.
Well that's what they say you know how much you can trust the military on such things. Seems to take out a three story hotel pretty good even then :D
8000lbs would be the weight of the total device, I seem to remember about 1/2 the weight of a bomb is actually explosive, thats still a shite load.
I was watching the mythbusters episode 22,000 Ft fall which features a 1000lb bomb just over half of which is high explosive. It makes a hell of a mess, I guess the label on this is wrong or else the scale of the video is much larger than it appears.