2000 pound bomb goes KABOOM!! - Fixed

[n4292936]

lets try that again....
This is apparently a laser guided 2000 pound bomb
http://members.cox.net/angela.stevenson/11may04jdam_wsep.mpg

The aftermath:
http://members.cox.net/angela.stevenson/11may04jdam_bda.mpg

[Herrmannek]

Goooood shiat woot

[Shadow]

Cool Vid!
Reminds me on 500g of Amonal.
Click here (http://mitglied.lycos.de/raupenkacke15/500.rar)[/url]

[/McH\]

Thats a big hole!!!

[Tengu]

haha very cool

[Porta_jon]

Diesel

[Ichhabe]

It is of course the contest of the ground that allow huge crates to be made and of course the bomb it self. But the size of that hole, sure it wasn't a larger bomb or something? It did look like solid ground and that crate is just HUUUGE.

[SOG]

i should have turned the Bose down before playing that one. i think the neighbors ducked.

[ohadbx]

lets try that again....
This is apparently a laser guided 2000 pound bomb
http://members.cox.net/angela.stevenson/11may04jdam_wsep.mpg

The aftermath:
http://members.cox.net/angela.stevenson/11may04jdam_bda.mpg
JDAM is GPS guided, not laser ;)

[Sir Zach of R.]

Who said it was a JDAM? It could have been a GBU-27 or GBU-10 for all we know. p-)

[ohadbx]

Who said it was a JDAM? It could have been a GBU-27 or GBU-10 for all we know. p-)
Hmmm... look at the file name (it could be wrong, but we have no reason to believe so)

[Sierra]

wow! bomb go BOOM! big BOOM!

[Pooga]

Holy moly.

[n4292936]

Hey is that what ODA574 (I think it was 574 but could be wrong) got hit by in A-stan? The ODA that had responsibility for Karzai's mob.

[Bulkowski]

that was... loud p-)

[scrybe]

Wow, those guys know how to move dirt in a hurry!

[usa320]

looked like a GBU-27 to me.

[Bombtrack]

wouldnt want to be on the receiving end of that

[Vance]

F YEAH!!

[Dennis G]

good stuff

[wyrm_142]

Its a GBU-31 (Mk-84). You can tell by the 'pointy' nose (no LGB tube) of the nose plug.

I looked up the cratering data at work, and depending on the soil (this stuff was soft), and the fuze delay (30 or 60 ms) you're looking at a crater about 20-30' deep, and 40-50' in diameter. This was likely dropped on one of the Navy ranges (my guess is either China Lake, or Fallon) - why? Nellis doesn't have ground water (see the pool in the crater) that close to the surface.

Edit: That was dropped during a Combat Hammer (A-G WSEP) at UTTR (Utah Test & Training Range) - the Navy doesn't do WSEP, they call it something else.

[AFACadet]

I agree with the above. In addition, it didn't have the tail fins of an LGB (all have very large rear control fins that fold out after the bomb is dropped).

[Chrome Beretta]

Oh, ****, that thing got OWNT!.