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Damage radius of MOAB

E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
in Zocalo v2.0
Now I found something interesting.

[quote]BOMB RADIUS DAMAGE

* Up to 1,000 yards: Obliterates everything.

* Up to 1 mile: Knocks people, tents, light buildings, cars and jeeps over within 1-mile radius.

* Up to 1.7 miles: shock wave kills people, causes severe damage to buildings, equipment, blows trucks, tanks off road.

* Up to 2 miles: causes deafness.

* Up to 5 miles: shakes ground, breaks windows.

* Up to 30 miles: 10,000 foot high mushroom cloud visible.

[Source The Lexington Institute and Globalsecurity.org][/quote][url]http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2003/030312-moab02.htm[/url]

Sounds like fun, doesn't it?

Bomb really deserves its name. ("Mother Of All Bombs")

Comments

  • A2597A2597 Fanboy
    no, the nuke Russia developed during the cold war, the one that could have wiped out half of Europe in one shot, THAT was the MOAB. :eek:
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by A2597 [/i]
    [B]no, the nuke Russia developed during the cold war, the one that could have wiped out half of Europe in one shot, THAT was the MOAB. :eek: [/B][/QUOTE]
    Only because its huge radioactive fallout.

    It may have been real three stage device or just normal two stage bomb with eight 12.5 MT secondary capsules in one casing.
  • A2597A2597 Fanboy
    true, I lost the vid from the history channel though. (&%$*! HDD failure! ;) )

    I just remember the shockwave area being huge...and then the fallout covered all of Europe.
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    The plans by the Russinas for the biggest Thermo-Nuclear device, was for a yield of 100 Megatons. They had to scale it down somewhat to 60 Megatons in order to fit their Bombers...

    :rolleyes:

    "City Busters" as they were known...
  • An ex-SquidAn ex-Squid Elite Ranger
    Yeah, and they still had to gut the bomb bay area and some of the surrounding structure of the TU-16 that was used to drop the prototype weapon just so the damn thing would fit inside the airframe. Needless to say, the Soviet Air Force (VVS) wasn't too pleased with the prospect of having to do the same with every bomber that would have carried the "city buster" bombs; once Khruschev (who originally proposed the idea, IIRC) was deposed and Brezhnev became Premier, the VVS and the Defense Ministry let the entire concept fade into oblivion.
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    I remember discussions in class concerning the effect radius of a 60 Megaton device, when I was in Tech Training for the Minute Man III systems in the US Air Force.

    :eek:

    Whenever I get into a conversation about it now, I like to use Fresno as my target city for damage !

    :p :D
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by JackN [/i]
    [B]The plans by the Russinas for the biggest Thermo-Nuclear device, was for a yield of 100 Megatons. They had to scale it down somewhat to 60 Megatons in order to fit their Bombers...[/B][/QUOTE]
    Wrong, full yield bomb would have increased atmosphere's radiactive fallout significantly so they replaced some parts made of uranium from second/third stages with those made of lead eliminating fast fissioning of those parts by fusion neutrons.
    This change made it "purest" hydrogen bomb with 97% of yield coming from fusion. (and effectively halving yield)

    [url]http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html[/url]

    [url]http://www.vce.com/tsar.html[/url]
    [url]http://www.fact-index.com/t/ts/tsar_bomba.html[/url]
  • An ex-SquidAn ex-Squid Elite Ranger
    Hmmm... my bad. It [I]was[/I] a TU-95 and not a TU-16; I should've known that, since there's no way in hell that a Badger could take off with that heavy a payload, much less travel any useful distance with it. Still, even a TU-95 (which isn't as slow as the articles imply - at least when carrying a standard payload) couldn't reach any targets in the U.S., and NATO interceptors could have easily taken out a TU-95 so equipped well before it could get close to the target.
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by E.T [/i]
    [B]Wrong, full yield bomb would have increased atmosphere's radiactive fallout significantly so they replaced some parts made of uranium from second/third stages with those made of lead eliminating fast fissioning of those parts by fusion neutrons.
    This change made it "purest" hydrogen bomb with 97% of yield coming from fusion. (and effectively halving yield)

    [url]http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html[/url]

    [url]http://www.vce.com/tsar.html[/url]
    [url]http://www.fact-index.com/t/ts/tsar_bomba.html[/url] [/B][/QUOTE]

    yeah, ok... my bad too... ;)

    Still, 50 Megatons, not good news for city dwellers...

    :p
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