26 Replies to “Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors”

  1. If a bomb doesn’t explode, there is no reason to not keep using it until it does.
    Who wants to be the next owner? Slightly used.

  4. Where’s green helmet guy?
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    Sorry,
    He is busy loading refrigerated Palestinian child corpses into a stolen Red Cross van.

  5. same photo, not three different ones. who knows where it is from? I will say not Israel.

  7. One tweeter stated…
    “so the more news we have, the less we know….”
    Well said.

  8. A practice bomb and it fell beside 3 identical trucks in the identical position…LMAO.! Looks Staged to me.
    Reminiscent of some of the pictures that came out of GAZA this past summer…
    Classic media propaganda… pure unadulterated BS.

  9. In any international, military, and domestic ideological conflict truth is the first casualty.
    The media here has twisted the truth to suit their ideological bent for ever. It has just become more blatant in the last few decades.
    Modern technology has made it possible to expose such blatant truth twisting.

  10. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports that Wullerton, SK has just initiated an attack on Dog River, SK. A long standing feud relating to town property lines is said to be the motivation. Wullerton believes the gas station is within its town limits and seeks to claim property tax revenues.

  12. I think I can see “made in USA’ on that bomb, recycling at it’s finest, USA style:-)))

  13. So what is the white cord? Is it artillery or practice or what? With the folks who know ammo around here surely someone has an expertise?

  14. It’s green, it’s military ordinance, and has potential danger written all over it. That’s all you need to know.
    Probably the major just needed his septic tank pumped.

  15. Well for sure for sure it’s either a dud or a practice round….
    Some sorta rocket booster or motor…the large dimensions and lack of driving bands would indicate air dropped….but no evidence of mounting lugs….
    Not very heavy. Dud bombs and artillery duds usually are completely buried…unless they hit real thick concrete…then they usually detonate(explosive filing ignites from shock)….probably a napalm or chemical canister dropped medium/low height.

  16. It’s certainly not an artillery round. Look at the size of it, pay particular attention to it’s length and ask what gun has a chamber that long, really now. Explosives in munitions do not detonate from the shock of impact. They use a fuze that dictates when & how the explosive filler explodes. Some, I said, SOME bombs use parachutes and brakes to slow the bomb down as it falls to allow low level attack aircraft to escape the fragments of the bomb they just dropped. The US was dropping “Para Frag” bombs in WWII in the pacific theater. Now days we use collapsible fins that could never be mistaken for this thing. I believe it’s somebody’s CBU that failed to open and spread it’s payload.

  17. “Explosives in munitions do not detonate from the shock of impact.”
    Tell that to some folks in Virgina….a “broken arrow (whoops nuke) fell outta a B47 and although the conventional explosive exploded…the thing did go nuclear because the fuses didn’t function and an explosive lens failed to form.
    Most do actually. This is one of the hurdles in building delayed denotation weapons like bunker busters. Then when they find an explosive filling sufficiently stable to resist the shock of impact…then emerges the problem of getting fusing to reliably work.
    Late 19th century, the problem was how to utilize high explosive nitro-cellulose in an artillery piece. One of the solutions was to build huge, absolutely huge, air rifles(google dynamite guns)…..then somebody developed amatol…giving the “French 1897 75″ the punch of an 8” howitzer (using black powder filling)….
    The fertilizer/diesel used in the Oklahoma attack is so stable it needs high explosive to set it off….ya can burn dynamite, doncha know.
    Amatol and the 1897 (actually the combination) made as much an impact on warfare as the introduction of the airplane or the tank.

  18. EDIT
    “…the thing did go nuclear because….”
    should read:
    “…..the thing did NOT go nuclear because……”
    BTW
    CBU…unlikely…looks more like a propane tank…
    CBUs have clearly visible lengthwise seams…..and are not robust enough to be intact after impact with a truck.

  19. “It’s certainly not an artillery round. Look at the size of it, pay particular attention to it’s length and ask what gun has a chamber that long, really now.”
    The Russians have some really big guns. For example the 240mm(9.45 inch) smoothbore(no driving bands) breech loading mortar.
    Those are spring open, not solid, stabilizer fins on the back, indicates it was fired from a tube.
    It’s blue, not green like the truck, which indicates it’s an inert practice round.
    There is nothing in the picture to give the projectile scale to judge it’s size.
    Here is the Russian 2s7 Pion. 203mm sp artillery unit
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2S7_Pion
    The Russians have plenty of weapons we haven’t seen yet. Some of the Soviet era weapon systems that they made have been seen for the first time in the last 5 years.

  21. Rockets are artillery. The distinction is tube or rocket artillery. It’s too short, relative to it’s diameter, to be launched as a rocket. It’s a rocket assisted artillery round.(tube)
    It’s also too short relative to it’s diameter to be a modern aerial bomb.
    Russian aerial bombs:
    http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/venik4/9768055/4197/4197_320.jpg
    *note the solid tail fins painted same color as the rest of the unit*

  25. north of sasquatch
    “It was an accident, of course, and the bomb’s nuclear rod wasn’t inserted. If it had been, the fallout would have covered Horry County, and Gregg wouldn’t be here to talk about a blast that pulverized his garden, destroyed his home and made his family survivors of South Carolina’s only nuclear accident.”
    try sticking to facts, not fantasy
    see the bit about the “rod” not being inserted. When just being transported nukes are always (or at least rules are such) non functional as a nuke, yes the trigger exploded, and that’s all that could have exploded.

  26. WRT the bluish colour, NATO and Russian colour codes are totally different. Who would drop/fire a practice round against a real enemy? Most unlikely. I wouldn’t read too much into colour, ie.
    Nor is it really possible to tell length/diameter ratio, given that the front is buried in the ground. It could be very long or quite squat.
    Discussions about 1950s nukes or 100-year-old French artillery rounds are interesting, but hardly germane; explosives technology has progressed a long way since then. Modern explosives are remarkable stable and getting more so. Can they detonate from mere impact? Possible, but unlikely.
    Given the evident diameter, the only known tube arty which could have fired it is the Soviet 240mm mortar, which uses bombs with fixed, not folding fins. RAP rounds are essentially conventional tube arty rounds with a driving band and rocket motor in back. This ain’t RAP. Ergo, it’s an aerial bomb, a rocket or a fake.
    Napalm tanks are thin metal, which shred on impact. This ain’t such, either. Ditto a cluster bomb.
    The suggestion of a large MLRS rocket is plausible. They are in use both in the Ukraine and Middle East. (The truck is Russian, but they were given away to all comers with green stamps.) Yet, again, the BM27 named is not quite the same. Moreover, the BM27 is equipped with HE, chemical, scatterable mine and bomblet warheads the latter three would have fairly thin skins, yet the image shows almost no damage to the item. Odd.
    I am also puzzled by the apparently clear-cut damage to the truck. Ditto by the *very* neat penetration into the dirt. I would have expected far more ‘splash’ – remember that however far into the ground it went, dirt equivalent to at least a cylinder of the same width and depth had to be displaced and it’s hard to see much of that, nor the fins which had to have been stripped off while whistling through the truck body.
    Not impossible, but implausible. Certainly two of the three are fakery through mislabeling and I wouldn’t bet anything on the third.

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