I've traveled near Eglin AFB. You ever walked down a side walk, just window shopping. Then the glass in all the windows shakes and you hear a distant boom. Asked the locals what happened. Local: oh they're just bomb testing at Eglin. Wild.
I work with some old school machinists who worked on this project in McAlester, Oklahoma at the Army Munitions plant. Retired artillery and tank barrels are stored there and the later production work on these weapons were done there. Great result from creative practical thinking. Weapons like this use a timer or altimeter to detonate. Some bombs are designed to explode at a certain height above the ground to maximize their explosive effect, others like these penetrators detonate after a certain amount of time after impact.
I grew up and live near the Watervliet Arsenal. It's the oldest US government cannon facility. The arsenal was founded on July 14, 1813, to support the War of 1812. It was designated as the Watervliet Arsenal in 1817. It occupies 142 acres (57 ha) of land, approximately 8 miles (13 km) north of Albany, New York. The location is adjacent to the Hudson River.
Since you wondered, the US has continued to develop a number of even more impressive bunker buster bombs designed to penetrate and destroy hardened facilities deep underground. The largest of these is the GBU-57A/B Massive Ordinance Penetrator...or MOP. It is designed to be carried on the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, and the upcoming B-21 Raider stealth bomber...and weighs in at 30k pounds. And just as you thought, to penetrate deep underground before exploding, the bombs have specially designed delay fuses...usually located in the tail of the bomb and not the nose.✌
30k pounds 💀💀😵💫 wasn’t the one in this video like 4500 lbs? Was supposed to be like 6000-6500 lbs but made it smaller to fit on the F111. That made me think they must have made bigger ones by now then right? Sure enough now they got a 30k lb one👍🏼 I gotta google & see how deep that thing will penetrate Answer? “200 ft (60 meters) of ground & cement before detonating” I’m impressed. development costing between $400-500 million & each one costs $3.5 million
@@scotthill1600 The US has developed other bunker buster bombs in the 4k to 5k pound range, such as the GBU-37...but above that the next size up is the GBU-57 MOP at 30k pounds.
The only thing i dont understand is they are talking about molten explosives like its metal . I am going to be googling this because in my mind if you make a explosive so hot that its molten you would think it would explode , however i do know that explosives like C4 ect need a small explosion to set of the main charge .
I don’t know the real reason for painting a bomb, yeah it makes it look cooler but I’d be genuinely surprised if there isn’t a real military reason or a few to paint it. May make them harder to track, stealth planes are painted to reduce their signature why not bombs too. Idk im sure there a few military reasons to paint bombs / missiles tho
You can do a lot depending on what type of coating you put on. Most paint jobs are to reduce or inhibit corrosion so they can be stored and/or transported without risk of the device becoming unusable. In this case most bunker-buster bombs are coated with a teflon-based coating to reduce friction. This decreases the drag on the bomb as it travels through the dirt. So when it does eventually get to the reinforced concrete bunker it still has enough kinetic energy to punch through and detonate inside of the bunker.
@@scotthill1600 @Dark78Sabre is entirely correct but it goes much further than that. Painting could be for weapon identification or differentiation between models and so on and it really does go on and on. What light it absorbs and reflects, what reflective capabilities it has and how that affects thermal ingress, what radiological characteristics it exhibits, etc. all come into play. For instance, they aren't just slapping a coat of paint on F-22 Raptors for the badass appeal; they actually absorb energy in a way to defeat radar.
I've traveled near Eglin AFB. You ever walked down a side walk, just window shopping. Then the glass in all the windows shakes and you hear a distant boom. Asked the locals what happened. Local: oh they're just bomb testing at Eglin. Wild.
I work with some old school machinists who worked on this project in McAlester, Oklahoma at the Army Munitions plant. Retired artillery and tank barrels are stored there and the later production work on these weapons were done there. Great result from creative practical thinking. Weapons like this use a timer or altimeter to detonate. Some bombs are designed to explode at a certain height above the ground to maximize their explosive effect, others like these penetrators detonate after a certain amount of time after impact.
you realize this our 80's footage
I grew up and live near the Watervliet Arsenal. It's the oldest US government cannon facility. The arsenal was founded on July 14, 1813, to support the War of 1812. It was designated as the Watervliet Arsenal in 1817. It occupies 142 acres (57 ha) of land, approximately 8 miles (13 km) north of Albany, New York. The location is adjacent to the Hudson River.
Since you wondered, the US has continued to develop a number of even more impressive bunker buster bombs designed to penetrate and destroy hardened facilities deep underground. The largest of these is the GBU-57A/B Massive Ordinance Penetrator...or MOP. It is designed to be carried on the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, and the upcoming B-21 Raider stealth bomber...and weighs in at 30k pounds.
And just as you thought, to penetrate deep underground before exploding, the bombs have specially designed delay fuses...usually located in the tail of the bomb and not the nose.✌
oh that's so interesting, thanks for the information like always!!!
Then came the MOAB and the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in the world. And it was dropped on Isis also inside a mountain
@@mindyrolston3915 Well...MOP came after MOAB, and we were talking about penetrating bunker busters, not air bursters...but thanks for the comment.💯
30k pounds 💀💀😵💫 wasn’t the one in this video like 4500 lbs? Was supposed to be like 6000-6500 lbs but made it smaller to fit on the F111. That made me think they must have made bigger ones by now then right? Sure enough now they got a 30k lb one👍🏼
I gotta google & see how deep that thing will penetrate
Answer? “200 ft (60 meters) of ground & cement before detonating” I’m impressed. development costing between $400-500 million & each one costs $3.5 million
@@scotthill1600 The US has developed other bunker buster bombs in the 4k to 5k pound range, such as the GBU-37...but above that the next size up is the GBU-57 MOP at 30k pounds.
that's just wild
Congree said we can't use the M22.. He is chewing crayons and waiting.
Cheers bro
The only thing i dont understand is they are talking about molten explosives like its metal . I am going to be googling this because in my mind if you make a explosive so hot that its molten you would think it would explode , however i do know that explosives like C4 ect need a small explosion to set of the main charge .
Some explosives require more complex chemical reactions to happen rather than just a given temperature.
You think a bunker buster is bad? Look up a MOAB 👏That is really bad.
I don’t know the real reason for painting a bomb, yeah it makes it look cooler but I’d be genuinely surprised if there isn’t a real military reason or a few to paint it. May make them harder to track, stealth planes are painted to reduce their signature why not bombs too. Idk im sure there a few military reasons to paint bombs / missiles tho
You can do a lot depending on what type of coating you put on. Most paint jobs are to reduce or inhibit corrosion so they can be stored and/or transported without risk of the device becoming unusable. In this case most bunker-buster bombs are coated with a teflon-based coating to reduce friction. This decreases the drag on the bomb as it travels through the dirt. So when it does eventually get to the reinforced concrete bunker it still has enough kinetic energy to punch through and detonate inside of the bunker.
@@Dark78Sabre thanks for the answer, very interesting. Knew there had to be a legitimate military reason to paint bombs
@@scotthill1600 @Dark78Sabre is entirely correct but it goes much further than that. Painting could be for weapon identification or differentiation between models and so on and it really does go on and on. What light it absorbs and reflects, what reflective capabilities it has and how that affects thermal ingress, what radiological characteristics it exhibits, etc. all come into play. For instance, they aren't just slapping a coat of paint on F-22 Raptors for the badass appeal; they actually absorb energy in a way to defeat radar.