The kill-'em-all war mongers here show they have no clue--post after post.
Originally Posted by Old-T
Were any posting "post after post"?
Or are you just getting hysterical again?
Your description of "the bomb" omits some elements of its value.
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"Caves and tunnels can be very large proportional to the lethal radius of the munition, even very big (conventional) munitions. And things like turns, doors, etc., can quickly reduce the effect even more.
".... You can't watch tunneling underground easily, and with current equipment they can make serious turns, rises, drops, and splits once they are out of sight of your sensors. ....
"As to entrapping them--many of these complexes have multiple exits, many of which are not used except as emergency exits. Some also can stub out exits, and only finish them from the inside when needed. So if you don't kill them, you might not entomb them as long as you thing."
Your "assumption" is that the "value" is "concussion"! It's just the opposite. The "thermobaric" function that is most devastating is the vacuum created when the air in the tunnels and caves are sucked out by the ignition of the fuel cloud at a level that destroys internal organs even if it does not obliterate their torsos within the fuel cloud when it ignites. As a munitions expert from the 60's you should know that already. You know, all that "intel" on "mission space" in comparison to the "lethal radius of the munition" you know so much about?
It is the weapon of choice to effectively destroy tunneling and caves not to mention those "hiding" within them, because those spaces (you call them "mission space") are confined and defined by the walls, floors, and ceilings carved out of the rock and solid debris.
Perhaps that is why the death assessment has increased 3 fold after some "exploration" ... instead of 360 toes it sounds like they may have found closer to a 1,000 of them.
