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More on MOAB to educate DFM

From: http://www.globemaster.de/html/moab.html

Air Force tested a Massive Ordnance Air Blast weapon on AFB Eglin on 03/11/2003. Eglin Air Force Base, FL is home of the Air Armament Center (AAC).
The MOAB is a precision-guided munition weighing 21,500 pounds and was dropped from a C-130 Hercules aircraft for the test. It is the largest non-nuclear weapon in existence.
The weapon is meant to allow pilots to drop high-precision bombs out of the range of most anti-aircraft fire. MOAB is a "modernization" of the BLU-82 "Daisy Cutter".


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It was designed for killing over a huge area, this made it appropriate for wiping out dispersed hidden al-quaeda in Tora Bora, but wholly inappropriate for use on civilian sites- unless, like you seem to believe, arab civillians are expendable...

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