The Massive Bomb that Penetrated the Ground Like Butter

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@blister762
@blister762 Жыл бұрын
While studying electronics in the mid 90's, after a 10 year Army career, we were discussing the Gulf War and advancements made during the war including the GBU 28. Our instructor, a retired sailor who went into weapons design after his navy service, told us he was on the design team for the GBU 28. He told us that they went from idea to design to building and to testing in 19 days.
@onionhead5780
@onionhead5780 Жыл бұрын
Incredible. Thanks for the intel. 👍 Merica!
@jeremyzzz5067
@jeremyzzz5067 Жыл бұрын
If they make these weapons so fast then why do they cost as much as they do
@NavyVet4955
@NavyVet4955 Жыл бұрын
@@jeremyzzz5067 they made a prototype fast, that does not mean it’s cheap however Given the 145k cost per unit they are pretty cheap considering the amount of material they can penetrate.
@libertarian1637
@libertarian1637 Жыл бұрын
@@jeremyzzz5067: These weapons were made fast and made cheap; they used existing components, howitzer barrel, guidance system and fins. These basically were mostly about the construction and new explosive. This is a rarity however as most things get expensive through cost over-runs and everyone getting a piece, like the F-35.
@VikingVic76
@VikingVic76 Жыл бұрын
Now that's some straight " 'Merica! " shit right there. I mean the 1st test bomb was soo deep it woukd cost too much to pull out for examination!
@realpolitiksanta5980
@realpolitiksanta5980 Жыл бұрын
1:31 That’s not George H. W. Bush.
@marcelodt9291
@marcelodt9291 Жыл бұрын
I was going to say that, Bush Jr, instead of Bush father
@jameshirt7689
@jameshirt7689 Жыл бұрын
I caught that too. We're showing our age
@stoopsartsunlimited
@stoopsartsunlimited Жыл бұрын
I think footage of Dubya appears at 6:31 as well.
@dorad100
@dorad100 Жыл бұрын
I am sure they put such an error in every clip to get comments
@marcelodt9291
@marcelodt9291 Жыл бұрын
@@dorad100 :😱
@jme36053
@jme36053 Жыл бұрын
I stumbled across the remnants of one of these 30 feet below the floor of a blown up earth-covered hardened bunker in Baghdad near BIAP. It had also blown the 3 foot thick concrete-reinforced doors some 50 feet into a protective earthen berm. It impressed me.
@cruisinguy6024
@cruisinguy6024 Жыл бұрын
I can’t imagine being on the receiving end of one of these. The sheer horror and panic they must have felt once they learned their deepest bunkers were no longer safe and were, in fact, death traps….
@dextermorgan1
@dextermorgan1 Жыл бұрын
​@@cruisinguy6024 This is one of those "fuck around and find out" bombs. 😂
@transkryption
@transkryption Жыл бұрын
I'm sure those in the bunker at the time were impressed more!
@miamijules2149
@miamijules2149 Жыл бұрын
@@dextermorgan1 Lol seriously
@ron.v
@ron.v Жыл бұрын
@John Ervine -- Thank you for your service and welcome home.
@lifevest1
@lifevest1 Жыл бұрын
“If I had a nickel for every time the US invented a bomb that ended a war I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird how its happened twice.”
@jeffallen3382
@jeffallen3382 Жыл бұрын
He makes half this crap up in his videos!
@jonslg240
@jonslg240 Жыл бұрын
*At **1:29** THAT IS NOT George H. W. Bush. Pretty weak crap for someone who makes mini docs.*
@Wooargh
@Wooargh Жыл бұрын
youd be rich we litraly invented everything cars tanks subs planes jets rockets computers i dare you to name anything we didn't invent lol
@johnnylafayette
@johnnylafayette Жыл бұрын
It's the pennies for every bomb that (prevented) a war that really gets messy in the car though
@gdilling
@gdilling Жыл бұрын
@@Wooargh What do you mean we? What did you invent?
@bluecreekroad
@bluecreekroad Жыл бұрын
Retired USAF AMMO here. I remember when these were first delivered to us. We had to keep tighter security on them than even the "other bombs" in the dump. We had to move them during specific times of the day, and we couldn't even let the SF folks see them.
@drmodestoesq
@drmodestoesq Жыл бұрын
San Franciscans? Or Science Fiction folks?
@Geno_Tracks
@Geno_Tracks Жыл бұрын
​@@drmodestoesq 🤦 no, SF = Security Forces
@clcantu95
@clcantu95 Жыл бұрын
America literally said oh you got bunkers hold my beer
@ridethecurve55
@ridethecurve55 Жыл бұрын
NOW, I am Waiting for your NEXT video featuring the GBU-72 New and Improved version of the Bunker Buster, buster!
@jonathanhammond3975
@jonathanhammond3975 Жыл бұрын
I got to explore a lot of these blown up bunkers, and it was absolutely mind-blowing.
@galatians-2.20
@galatians-2.20 Жыл бұрын
​@@jonathanhammond3975 what did you see that fascinated you?
@ronran5755
@ronran5755 Жыл бұрын
@@galatians-2.20 americans were fascinated as well with what They Did Not see…..no wmd….woooops
@carstenhansen5757
@carstenhansen5757 Жыл бұрын
@@ronran5755 No whops. I'm pretty sure they knew that, and didn't tell their allies. But they did rid the world of a dictator, which is almost always a good thing.
@transkryption
@transkryption Жыл бұрын
RIP F-111 Aardvark 🛩️💣🚀
@oldmech619
@oldmech619 Жыл бұрын
An interesting story. I was in combat once recovering a down helicopter. We had close in support, but then we had the F-111 bomb run near us. The ground had a rumble as the bombs exploded one after that other. Felt really assuring. I had been shot down the day before then mortar so I needed that rumbling sound.
@Anamnesia
@Anamnesia Жыл бұрын
Come to Australia - we still fly them!
@Unmannedair
@Unmannedair Жыл бұрын
LoL, everyone's focused on which bush it was. Usually you only see people focused on the Bushes when hunting with Dick Cheney... 😬😂
@jeffdittrich6778
@jeffdittrich6778 Жыл бұрын
This was not the least tested bomb type. That honor goes to the two atomic bombs dropped in WWII.
@AlwaysBastos
@AlwaysBastos Жыл бұрын
Using old gun barrels for penetration has been done in WW2 with Barnes Walliss' 5-ton 'Tallboy' bomb, used to sink the Turpitz , destroy the German bunkers at La Coupole, and the tunnels at Saumur.
@chrissmith2114
@chrissmith2114 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, the Brits did most things first. WW2 may have been over more quickly if Americans had been willing to take advice from the British on a lot of things.
@septimus7524
@septimus7524 Жыл бұрын
​​​@@chrissmith2114 way to point fingers at an ALLY and make a problem out of nothing. Y'all forget we were fighting two wars at once, on two sides of the world itself? Get off your high horse and cut us some slack, we were still practically in depression until war juiced up the economy.
@chrissmith2114
@chrissmith2114 Жыл бұрын
​@@septimus7524 You forget that Britain and commonwealth did most of the ground fighting in Europe ( and all of the land fighting against Japanese in Asia, as well as fighting Germany in north Africa ), that Britain out-produced Germany in weapons on its own, and still supplied thousands of aircraft, tanks, and other stuff to Russia. Britain also had to load aircraft carriers to USA for use in pacific, and our carriers had metal decks, unlike the wooden decks of USA stuff. If a kamikaze hit a British carrier a few sailors with a sweeping brush could clear the mess off steel deck in 20 minutes, with USA carrier it could well be game over. USA did not listen to British, although Britain had been fighting Germans for a couple of years before USA had pearl Harbour and decided to join in, also it was Germany that declared war on USA, while Britain had had the guts to declare war on Germany ( which legally made us the aggressor and we had to make reparations to Germany after the war, which involved sending a lot of our best machine tools and equipment to Germany, the British army also started the VW factory back into production ). The reason Americans suffered so badly in D Day was that they launched the British floating tanks ( from British made tank carrying assault vehicles by the way ) from way too far out in stormy seas and they sank, the British and Canadians had the courage to take their ships in closer and most of them made it to the beaches so saved lives of infantry - the British had made floating mine-clearing tanks called 'funnies' and the Americans laughed at them, but lost a lot of men because they never made the beaches. Yanks also messed up Mulberry floating harbours with their 'not made in America' silliness, they did not bother to fit the sections together and anchor them properly so they were badly damaged by the sea. The list of American mistakes goes on and on, and remember UK factories were getting bombed, that never happened to American factories. Americans believe the Hollywood version of the war and that they won it on their own - but Britain fought the Nazis for 2 years before the 7th cavalry got out of bed.
@NavyVet4955
@NavyVet4955 Жыл бұрын
@@chrissmith2114h yes the Brit's had everything under control, guess that 4 million tons of equipment, food, supplies and munitions didn't help at all. Remind me again was it civilian boats rescuing Brit's from France in their first encounter with Germany?
@chrissmith2114
@chrissmith2114 Жыл бұрын
@@NavyVet4955 LOL, American first encounter with Germany was years later.... civilian boats used because the sea was too shallow for the navy to get in close, The British stupidly allowed the French to command the BEF that was rescued at Dunkirk, with many French troops, yes those cheese eating surrender monkeys... Remind me again how UK on their own outproduced Germany, while being bombed. Britain also supplied Russia with many tons of weapons - and supplied America with many secrets to enable atom bomb, code breaking, lightweight airborne radar, jet engine, gyro and reflector gunsight etc etc. Remind me again why the floating tanks UK supplied to America for D Day sank ( because the US navy was too scared to go close in to launch them like British navy did ) Remind me again why the American section of Mulberry harbour failed ( because Americans were sloppy with their putting it together ). If Britain had surrendered to Germany all of USA would now be speaking German, because once Germany controlled all of Europe then American would have fallen in a short time. Do not think America beat the Japanese on their own either, like Hollywood portrays, British and Commonwealth forces were fighting throughout Asia. The Americans even had to borrow aircraft carriers off Britain, the ones with steel decks - that when they got hit by Japanese it took 10 sailors with brooms could clear the deck ready for use, while the American wooden deck ones were on fire and sinking.
@RAS_Squints
@RAS_Squints Жыл бұрын
1:30 That's not George H.W Bush, that's his son
@drewb.4069
@drewb.4069 Жыл бұрын
ikr..when the bomb he features was rush into production, his video shows the same..great vid but shows clips of different bush and other clips from 2003 operation iraqi freedom
@hanrockabrand95
@hanrockabrand95 Жыл бұрын
Glad I'm not going crazy. I'm like which invasion are they talking about? Am I so high that I don't even know what decade I'm looking at?
@hanrockabrand95
@hanrockabrand95 Жыл бұрын
@@drewb.4069 Yeah, like that clip of tearing down his statue. I swear that's from 03 or 04.
@athelwulfgalland
@athelwulfgalland Жыл бұрын
@@hanrockabrand95 It is...
@FaithnGod1558
@FaithnGod1558 Жыл бұрын
They’re both evil satan worshippers so who cares either way. They both have a special place waiting for them in HELL!!
@TheMadmanAndre
@TheMadmanAndre Жыл бұрын
There are precisely two bombs in history that can be credited with helping to end a war: The atomic bomb, and the GBU-28.
@kamenwaticlients
@kamenwaticlients Жыл бұрын
Now if we combine both we could move mountains
@septimus7524
@septimus7524 Жыл бұрын
​@@kamenwaticlients literally
@drmodestoesq
@drmodestoesq Жыл бұрын
Many mainstream historians think that it wasn't the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that got the Imperial Japanese to surrender.
@septimus7524
@septimus7524 Жыл бұрын
@@drmodestoesq At this point, anything "mainstream" I take with a heaping pile of salt. Being mainstream doesn't always mean they're being honest, or are always right.
@peterrobbins2862
@peterrobbins2862 8 ай бұрын
The Soviets invading into China and Manchuria was the final straw for japan​@@drmodestoesq
@JamesFromTexas
@JamesFromTexas Жыл бұрын
All that work to blow up bunkers just to find out he's hiding in a hole on a farm.
@pat36a
@pat36a Жыл бұрын
It's probably the reason why he was hiding in a Rat Hole on a farm.
@JamesFromTexas
@JamesFromTexas Жыл бұрын
@@pat36a I just think it's kind of funny that the 2 most sought after people by the US since Hitler were in a hole and a regular house
@paulyman28779
@paulyman28779 Жыл бұрын
Wrong war
@JamesFromTexas
@JamesFromTexas Жыл бұрын
@@paulyman28779 oh yeah, I forgot that by the time Iraqi Freedom happened we lost most of that technology and what we had left was worthless.
@callofduty611
@callofduty611 Жыл бұрын
​@@JamesFromTexas They clearly spent all of their time in those spots, moving around is so difficult 😂
@trickbear
@trickbear Жыл бұрын
I love your videos, but you guys could do a fantastic comedy routine with putting the wrong pictures while you give a very serious essay .
@grilnam9945
@grilnam9945 Жыл бұрын
There are known Bushes, then there are unknown Bushes
@gellis777
@gellis777 Жыл бұрын
Where's Jeb?
@chadb9270
@chadb9270 Жыл бұрын
Ha ha ha, thats why I’m here!!! Bush is Bush…
@mrael6304
@mrael6304 Жыл бұрын
Comedians.
@anticipayo
@anticipayo Жыл бұрын
WELL, SURE, WHEN YOU SOUND LIKE W BUSH YOU CAN BECOME COMEDY MATERIAL FOR JUST ABOUT ANYTHING
@timothywright1714
@timothywright1714 Жыл бұрын
Howitzer barrels as bomb casings weighing over 2.5 tons at super sonic speed... are you kidding...? I love this baby!!!!!
@russellmurray8102
@russellmurray8102 Жыл бұрын
Didn't the R.A.F. drop a weapon called Grand Slam, and another called Tall Boy in WWII?
@OrionsMako
@OrionsMako Жыл бұрын
Living near Eglin, you can feel when these, and other massive bombs, were tested.
@toothless01
@toothless01 Жыл бұрын
No where to run now baby, no where to hide. Now I can't get that song out of my head. 🤪👍👍🇺🇸
@Wcszat3
@Wcszat3 Жыл бұрын
The Us realllly knows how to end wars with just two bombs 😬
@NSNG1540
@NSNG1540 Ай бұрын
What else Z ych0s can do
@PeteHemdem
@PeteHemdem Жыл бұрын
I think it was brilliant to use shot-out howitzer barrels for bombs casings. Strong and rigid making for excellent soil penetration.
@fuzielectron5172
@fuzielectron5172 Жыл бұрын
For sure they also make great tomato stakes.
@matthewnardin7304
@matthewnardin7304 Жыл бұрын
We made bombs out of some old guns we had laying around.
@yihunkusito1472
@yihunkusito1472 Жыл бұрын
I don't care what anybody says. Without America the world as we know it would not have existed. God bless America and its people.
@renerogers6950
@renerogers6950 Жыл бұрын
You referenced the wrong George Bush at the 1:30 mark. It was George Bush Sr who was President during Desert Storm/ Shield.
@alancranford3398
@alancranford3398 Жыл бұрын
Three weeks from requirement to dropping the first weapons? I have an idea of the process involved. Abandon all hope, ye that cross the line in the sand! Its not quite the Manhattan Project (less than three years to create the atom bomb and use two in combat) but the atomic bomb was just speculation in 1942. The deep penetration bomb used a lot of off-the-shelf components and modern computers to calculate the ballistic tables (even smart bombs have ballistic trajectories) sped production. Note that the bomb described was too big and too heavy for the F-117A Nighthawk "stealth fighter." Also note that despite being smart bombs, half missed the intended target, but WW2 bombs were famous for having less than half hit within a mile of their intended targets.
@danielpeters2282
@danielpeters2282 Жыл бұрын
That’s crazy fast. It’s really why we win.
@alancranford3398
@alancranford3398 Жыл бұрын
@@danielpeters2282 Allied forces bogged down in the Bocage country just after the Normandy invasion--and some sergeant supporting the front-line tanks created the Rhino edition of the Sherman tank to deal with hedgerows. Problem--solution. To rub salt into the injury, the German tank barriers were repurposed into those hedge-gobbling teeth on the Rhino Shermans.
@desmond-hawkins
@desmond-hawkins Жыл бұрын
You know it's going to be informative and accurate when the first seconds of the video show footage from the 2003 invasion of Iraq while the narrator talks about Saddam's invasion of Kuwait.
@jeffallen3382
@jeffallen3382 Жыл бұрын
And confused what Bush he was talking about. This channel is becoming a 🤡 show!
@davidbelus4162
@davidbelus4162 11 ай бұрын
He says Dubya. lol @@jeffallen3382
@redrust3
@redrust3 Жыл бұрын
Wrong Bush. You showed Junior. Should have been Senior.
@mikek7283
@mikek7283 Жыл бұрын
WOW. A very spicy meatball. Good vid keep up the good work.
@stevenbaer5999
@stevenbaer5999 Жыл бұрын
Second World War the British Empire came up with their own ground penetrating bombs the Grand Slam and also Tall Boy aka Earthquake bomb. It actually spins around but yet the nose penetrate the ground to 110 feet deep before exploding.
@vumba1331
@vumba1331 Жыл бұрын
Was also supersonic and yes the fins made it spin to aid in stability, like a bullet. Interesting in that they were also filled with a liquid explosive called Torpex which took time to set. Very good at destroying 20m thick reinforced concrete roofs on the U Boat pens, so these guys were the grand daddys of this one so not really unprecedented.
@Shnick
@Shnick Жыл бұрын
I recall them dropping one in the frozen Alaskan Tundra in the 90’s. Its final depth was never officially released.
@chrissmith2114
@chrissmith2114 Жыл бұрын
The British had a 22,000 pound ( 10 tons ) earthquake bomb in WW2 called grand slam, and the 10,000 pounds of 'torpex' explosive had to be melted and poured into them. The smaller 'tallboy' ( 12,000 pound ) bombs sank the Tirpitz in a Fjord. Only the fabulous Lancaster could carry such huge bombs...while the 'Flying Fortress' could not carry many more bombs than the Mosquito, 'Heavy Bomber' is supposed to refer to the bomb load, not the weight of the aircraft.
@christopherwoulfe5916
@christopherwoulfe5916 Жыл бұрын
True - but if your bomber doesn't carry a heavy load, there are no rules against building twice or three times as many. Carrying those really big suckers was a problem not thought of until Barnes Wallis came up with his Tallboys & Grand Slams. It's quite a balancing act to design a bomb that's a really good penetrator while still having beaucoup explosive power. It's a surprise that the USAF did not already have a weapon already in its arsenal. It's not as though they didn't know that there might be a need for such a thing. It seems the army was ahead of the game with heavy high speed darts for piercing tank armour (APFSDS long dart penetrator) ... but so was everyone else. The WW2 Disney bomb was an idea looking for an accurate guidance system. Lots of them would not have been a problem. A daisy chain of these weapons, if accuracy was (is) fixed, is an idea now in use. Having stood behind a vintage eight inch howitzer when it fired has made many people, even me, think those old things would be more use re-made as heavy penetrators. It's no surprise that it took only 19 days to build the first one when a need was finally acknowledged.
@Octoberbaby1988
@Octoberbaby1988 Жыл бұрын
Remarkable high level ingenuity at its best truly amazing
@dystopianlucidity4448
@dystopianlucidity4448 Жыл бұрын
Remember kids, it’s never a war crime the first time.
@DontAskWhy868
@DontAskWhy868 Жыл бұрын
your content is undervalued. Great video!
@jeffallen3382
@jeffallen3382 Жыл бұрын
Huh? Half this stuff he makes up! LOL
@Jim-rc3mk
@Jim-rc3mk Жыл бұрын
Don’t forget the Shadow Spit Head Tactical Munition Bomb (SSHTC) Especially considering, the right hand gear mule switch which worked on ALL steel BSB bunkers. Oh yeah, hats off to Sargent Billy Back Mack and all the boys in yellow.
@Jim-rc3mk
@Jim-rc3mk Жыл бұрын
Yep- Good Old Sargent BBM
@grandlotus1
@grandlotus1 Жыл бұрын
One of your better videos - you cut to the chase.
@paulyman28779
@paulyman28779 Жыл бұрын
Really? I thought it was one of their worst. I was somewhat confused with all of the edits with videos from the second gulf War while talking about the first. Never showed George H W Bush, but showed George W Bush several times. It's like a WW1 video saying Kaiser Wilhelm but showing pictures of Hitler and footage from WW2 mixed in with WW1.
@jeffallen3382
@jeffallen3382 Жыл бұрын
​@@paulyman28779 I'm starting to think this channel has 100's of bots saying that bs. Half the crap this channel shows & talks about it made up!
@Bob_Adkins
@Bob_Adkins Жыл бұрын
Many think this is about high technology, but it isn't. It's about a thick, very hard steel casing with a high aspect ratio. The heat-treated gun barrel casing is so hard and stiff that it will not deform. Think of it as an arrow. A 30" 400-grain arrow at 200 fps will penetrate deeply into a sandbag. A 6" 400-grain arrow at 200 FPS will not.
@donaldmarwitz2046
@donaldmarwitz2046 Жыл бұрын
I totaly remeber when they said they had these and used them. Back then we had no idea how they were made or how they were designed. I do remeber we knew they were a delayed explosion. It was cool after all these years to get the infor and fully understand how they work now. Way cool, thanks.
@culturebreath369
@culturebreath369 Жыл бұрын
Imagine hiding 150ft in the ground: oh hey.. boom. 💥
@marchingovertheedge
@marchingovertheedge Жыл бұрын
GBU28 aka Bunker Buster ... woah it's such an impressive heavy weapon. Great video
@dave_bob
@dave_bob Жыл бұрын
While it was George H. W. Bush, You showed George W Bush.
@duanepigden1337
@duanepigden1337 Жыл бұрын
Britain used 22,000 pound grand slam bombs in WW2.
@MrFlazz99
@MrFlazz99 Жыл бұрын
I hate to point this out, but if you look at Kuwait on a map, it's a lump that sticks into Iraq. Saddam Hussein saw it as something like 'Iraq's 19th province' and decided that he might as well tidy up the map. Kuwait is just a political construct like a few other nations in that region - for instance land granted by the old British rulers to one or another tribal chief who had helped in the British fight against the Ottomans. The only thing that really mattered in 1990 was the oil - and the USA absolutely HAD to control that oil.
@ernestweaver9720
@ernestweaver9720 Жыл бұрын
Can't hide from you now!
@nigeldepledge3790
@nigeldepledge3790 Жыл бұрын
As these things always turn out, it's more complicated than "Iraq invaded Kuwait because territory." Iraq had been complaining to the UN for years about the dam that Turkey was building across the headwaters of the River Tigris, which supplied a huge portion of Iraq's water. Turkey refused to compromise their megaproject, and Iraq was left to either meekly accept that Turkey had the ultimate Sword of Damocles or to do something drastic to get some attention. As it turns out, the invasion of Kuwait hugely backfired on Iraq. Oh, and when the UK created the state of Iraq out of the rubble of the Ottoman Empire in 1919, Kuwait was originally a part of that territory. It was a number of years later that the UK set up Kuwait as a nation independent of Baghdad. This was almost certainly a deliberate ploy to limit Iraq's influence in the region by limiting them to just one seaport on the Persian Gulf.
@jbroskito
@jbroskito Жыл бұрын
That thing is nasty
@NatureSonic-Haven
@NatureSonic-Haven Жыл бұрын
Wow, that bomb really did a number on the ground! It went through that dirt like it was butter - I guess you could say the ground was toast! 😂 But in all seriousness, it's kind of terrifying to think about the destructive power of such a massive bomb. Let's hope we can find a way to resolve conflicts without resorting to such destructive measures. 🙏
@matthewday7565
@matthewday7565 Жыл бұрын
Speak softly and carry a big stick
@septimus7524
@septimus7524 Жыл бұрын
Good luck with that.
@mcinteer19
@mcinteer19 Жыл бұрын
@@matthewday7565 the problem is that we never speak softly and we’re continually using our sticks. We have more troops in more countries today than we did at the end of the Cold War.
@stankygeorge
@stankygeorge Жыл бұрын
Wishful thinking me thinks!
@littlekeyb6352
@littlekeyb6352 Жыл бұрын
​@@mcinteer19 oi, shut up and be proud. I'd rather bet on you rather than the chinese..
@user-rv8wb1nl1b
@user-rv8wb1nl1b Жыл бұрын
LOOK OUT PUTLER !
@tblizotte
@tblizotte Жыл бұрын
You’ve got the wrong President Bush in there. The elder Bush was the President when Iraq invaded Kuwait.
@christopherwilkinson326
@christopherwilkinson326 Жыл бұрын
Ionisation of a 21st century WMD, with 2 stage detonation process, needs to be considered. The uses of a simple Magnetron are simply amazing to behold. 35 years ago, plasma arc reactors were considered a fantasy by my chemistry teacher, when I brooched the subject, as a possible source of propulsion technology for space travel. Now, that same theory has been given credence through a quartz crystal interchange of ions, ignited by plasma. Surely, further extrapolation of that same practice can be used to essentially "fry the ground" of enemies that stand upon it, rather than the sledgehammer to crack a nut nuclear option. Non? Land isn't lost, and with the 2 stage detonation; resulting extra casualties aren't caught in "friendly fire."
@muskylemon2310
@muskylemon2310 Жыл бұрын
Preeeety sure if you ask, "What was the bomb that ended a war?", most people will not say the GBU-28..
@chuck1641
@chuck1641 Жыл бұрын
Saddam said it would be the Mother of all Wars. Pretty much him yelling for his Mama LMAO
@ConstitutionalConservative888
@ConstitutionalConservative888 Жыл бұрын
The new bomb is amazing, but it's penetration depth is classified.
@steventrostle1825
@steventrostle1825 Жыл бұрын
My synopsis you can dig but you CANNOT HIDE!🤬
@bobdadnaila7708
@bobdadnaila7708 Жыл бұрын
I remember flipping thru a book called Jane's Fighter Aircraft that showcased all the most iconic fighters from different countries and in it they would show you a regular picture and also an exploded diagram that illustrated the inner workings of the aircrafts. So, I'm looking at this one that is basically Russia's answer to the Harrier AV-8b (Yak-33 or something like that) In the exploded diagram it showed that the Russian engineers had solved the vertical thrust problem not by fixing variable nozzles to vector the thrust downward but by installing 2 additional smaller ( about the size of an APU) jet engines in the downward orientation as well as a lateral main engine. It just seemed so wack. It was as if they spied the Harrier from a distance and didn't get any real intel from us as to the Harrier's variable nozzles.
@johannjohann6523
@johannjohann6523 Жыл бұрын
This is why I am glad to be American. Look at how quickly America was able to create a solution to an immediate problem. It's amazing what people can come up with if given the freedom to do so. Luckily, Something dictatorial regimes have yet to learn and probably never will. You don't get the best out of someone holding a gun to their head.
@stankygeorge
@stankygeorge Жыл бұрын
Yet, a bunker buster seems to do the trick!
@realpolitiksanta5980
@realpolitiksanta5980 Жыл бұрын
At 6:33 you also show George W Bush. It seems to me you don’t understand that George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush are not the same people.
@reddiver7293
@reddiver7293 Жыл бұрын
Oh, whatever. It's only history...😂
@mingming9604
@mingming9604 Жыл бұрын
LOL . i was also gonna make that comment ;)
@paulyman28779
@paulyman28779 Жыл бұрын
Also the people tearing down statues was the second war, and the spider hole was also second gulf War.
@drewb.4069
@drewb.4069 Жыл бұрын
​@@reddiver7293 ONLY history? 🤦‍♂️
@RD-tx9vr
@RD-tx9vr Жыл бұрын
as an iraqi kid at that time, i saw the devastation of these bombs on government high profile buildings. my childhood memories are all war and crap.... tough luck.
@marcusmoonstein242
@marcusmoonstein242 Жыл бұрын
Sorry for being pedantic, but free-falling bombs cannot reach supersonic speeds as you describe. This is because air resistance increases by the square of the speed increase as the bomb falls. In other words, a 2x increase of speed increases the air resistance by 4x and so on. Basically the energy imparted to the bomb by gravity will never be enough to break through the air resistance and reach supersonic speeds. High subsonic speeds (250 - 300m/s2) are however possible with most bombs if dropped from a high enough altitude.
@RogowskiBubba0864
@RogowskiBubba0864 Жыл бұрын
Iraqi bunkers had women and children too, USA named it 'collateral damage'. Scraping flesh from bunkerwalls is nasty business 😢
@razzlevision3562
@razzlevision3562 Жыл бұрын
Very cool and informative video ,great work👍👍👍
@jarink1
@jarink1 Жыл бұрын
Considering what was left of Saddam's army was shattered remnants in headlong retreat from the southern portions of Iraq, I don't think these bombs are what ended the Gulf War. There was great caution on the Coalition side to limit the extent of the war. There were significant numbers of troops from Syria and Egypt (1 division each), plus others from many Arab nations deployed, all with the understanding that the *only* objective was to liberate Kuwait. Bush Sr. was careful to not go "too far" and push for toppling Saddam's regime, which could have immediately alienated most of our allies. It's also why we failed to support Kurdish and Shi'ite uprisings in northern and southern Iraq right after the cease-fire. I remember watching them fighting just a few kilometers away in Nasiriya and being helpless to do anything about it.
@011izationalex
@011izationalex Жыл бұрын
Everybodys a gangster until Mortar guns start falling from the sky.
@jesusisalive3227
@jesusisalive3227 Жыл бұрын
A 2 day turn around is just crazy!
@francisvantuyle
@francisvantuyle 11 ай бұрын
GBU 28 was designed with retired 8 inch Howetzer barrels. I am inpressed. I saw for my self the 8 inch Howetzer and the 175mm Howetzers used in Viet Nam. These are very big guns.
@nigeldepledge3790
@nigeldepledge3790 Жыл бұрын
"An unprecedented deep penetrator . . ." Nope. Not even close. The Tallboy and Grand Slam entered service in 1944 and '45 respectively. The GBU-28 is a refinement of the same concept. Also, the so-called "Disney bomb", but I don't know if that was used in combat.
@76629online
@76629online Жыл бұрын
I love bombs. Big bombs. Little bombs. I love them all.
@millicentsquirrelhole582
@millicentsquirrelhole582 Жыл бұрын
Abigail writes in to the Dark Tech hotline: 'Sir, it's not butter..it's buddah..like a hot bourekas slathered with buddah'...capiche?
@ajm2872
@ajm2872 Жыл бұрын
"Cause baby there AINT NO BUNKER DEEP ENOUGH! AINT NO CONCRETE THICK ENOUGH! AINT NO TARGET HARD ENOUGH to keep me from getting to you, babe!" 🧨
@johnathanmann1120
@johnathanmann1120 Жыл бұрын
You talk about Bush senior and show his son. Quality control
@buckhorncortez
@buckhorncortez Жыл бұрын
They're interchangeable...
@maximilian8770
@maximilian8770 Жыл бұрын
Imagine that when man attacks GOD'S ANGELS in Armageddon ALL these weapons ain't doing squat and Michael gonna WOOP ARSE!
@alberta.4692
@alberta.4692 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your content!
@tbeehler
@tbeehler Жыл бұрын
3 weeks. THREE weeks.
@klockwerked1673
@klockwerked1673 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the content 😊
@wickedsin6225
@wickedsin6225 Жыл бұрын
Wrong George Bush you need the OG CIA George Bush
@johntaylor-lo8qx
@johntaylor-lo8qx Жыл бұрын
George Bush senior who worked for the CIA when Kennedy was murdered?? Do some homework on that one. Both father and son are traitors to America. Please look into this. CIA had four leaders in the Bush Sr. yrs do to the fact this dept had enough power to overthrow all governments. Please check this out.
@simplemechanics246
@simplemechanics246 Жыл бұрын
There is always solutions to kill the bombs way before these can hit the target. But bombs have the limits, what these can not exceed.
@michaelkavanagh5947
@michaelkavanagh5947 Жыл бұрын
Well thats the wrong Bush lol.
@ELS1SON
@ELS1SON Жыл бұрын
How could you misidentify Papa Bush with the image of his son ? Poor research 😂😂
@callyman
@callyman Жыл бұрын
Great Post! So I wonder if they've created a bunker now thàt can survive a hit from one of these? Seems they just made All of their bunkers irrelevant.
@728709jay
@728709jay Жыл бұрын
Wrong Bush lol
@custardthepipecat6584
@custardthepipecat6584 Жыл бұрын
They will never get me in my tactical treehouse 💥🙀
@gertpotgieter6461
@gertpotgieter6461 Жыл бұрын
Did not know that "butter penetrates ground" - surely you must have meant like a hot knife penetrates butter
@trevordick272
@trevordick272 Жыл бұрын
“Instantly submerging itself into the ground; as if it were butter.” Exact quote. The ground is the butter, not the bomb…
@jons4917
@jons4917 Жыл бұрын
Hmm, a bomb that ended a war...... Sounds familiar.....
@NN-sj9fg
@NN-sj9fg Жыл бұрын
About Kuwait - - the Sheikdom was established in 1613 and received its independence in 1752. In other words, Kuwait was independent 24 years before the 13 colonies declared their independence from England.
@kennethwatson4489
@kennethwatson4489 Жыл бұрын
That was Dubya. Not H.Dubya
@rougehawk
@rougehawk Жыл бұрын
was really confused when you were talking about desert storm and then showing footage of oif...
@todatkinson4781
@todatkinson4781 Жыл бұрын
Don’t Mess With The U.S.!!! 🇺🇸
@chandrachurniyogi8394
@chandrachurniyogi8394 Жыл бұрын
you need a heavy jet like the F-15E Strike Eagle multi role interdictor strike fighter to deploy the GBU-28 Bunker Buster guided munitions . . . incorporating such destructive force in land attack cruise missiles could be a game changer . . .
@craigr.h.laurent240
@craigr.h.laurent240 28 күн бұрын
The background "music" was not needed. Does "Tech" believe that the narration and video are inadequate and therefore need "music" to distract us?
@billcomerford3021
@billcomerford3021 Жыл бұрын
Where is Edwin AFB in Florida? I have heard of Edward AFB in Nevada and Eglin AFB in Florida. I listened to the narrative four times to make sure I heard what it correctly. He said Edwin AFB.
@robguyatt9602
@robguyatt9602 Жыл бұрын
It's called Eglin AFB and that's what I thought he said.
@bluskytoo
@bluskytoo Жыл бұрын
its right next to Halbert Field…lol
@unclefart5527
@unclefart5527 11 ай бұрын
Looking at the grid fins I keep thinking about the Starship being weaponized.
@toms6213
@toms6213 Жыл бұрын
Your images include the wrong president for Desert Storm.
@davecomer6159
@davecomer6159 Жыл бұрын
It looks like you used a picture of George W Bush (the younger) in place of a picture of George H W Bush (the older) at time marker 1:32? I could be wrong, but I don't recall George H W Bush looking that young in 1992. Am I wrong? That mis-queue potentially adds questions the video although however small. That said, I didn't not see any other mis-queues, and appreciate the documentary. I still gave your video the thumbs up. Your channel is fascinating.
@chrisfox6445
@chrisfox6445 Жыл бұрын
Did anyone else imagine a couple of these landing on a rail and road pillar of the Kerch bridge?
@cyberwop
@cyberwop Жыл бұрын
Could you please turn up the volume a bit. With mine turned all the way up I can barely hear you with any background noise
@vejet
@vejet Жыл бұрын
7:42 They really should've called it the 'War Ender"
@alexandre007opa
@alexandre007opa Жыл бұрын
You've shown the wrong bush tho, but great video as always
@onetruekeeper
@onetruekeeper Жыл бұрын
If the bunker is deep enough it cannot be bombed. Only way is to drill a deep shaft and place a nuke.
@PlayingWithFireOutdoors
@PlayingWithFireOutdoors Жыл бұрын
By 1999 Yugoslavia was known as the Former Republic of Yugoslavia, or by the various states names. Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, etc.
@dolljasong
@dolljasong Жыл бұрын
When The Fat Electrician inspires you to make a video
@idkwhatimadoing8185
@idkwhatimadoing8185 Жыл бұрын
so this is why the south park characters where worried about Saddam Hussein making weapons in heaven
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