| DrudgeReportArchives.com | ||
| Today's DrudgeReport.com Drudge's Special Reports | Recent Headlines Popular Headlines Time Line | |
 Support The DrudgeReport; Visit Our Advertisers  The Washington Times March 15, 2002 INSIDE THE RING Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough Big BLU The Pentagon is rushing to produce a new and bigger bunker-busterbomb for use against hardened targets, like some of the underground hide-outsused by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Pentagon sources tell us the new bomb is being developed for the AirForce by Northrop Grumman Corp. in California and is called Big BLU- for bomb live unit. The new bomb will be bigger and more powerful thanthe new BLU-118 thermobaric warhead dropped on caves in Afghanistan recently. Big BLU, we are told, will be six times bigger than the F-15E-carriedthermobaric bomb and will be packed with some 30,000 pounds of high explosive.It will be guided to targets by satellite and will sport a cobalt-alloy penetratingwarhead that allows the bomb to dive up to 100 feet below the surface beforedetonating. The bombs are so big that it will take a B-2 bomber to carry one of them, we are told. Three Big BLUs have been ordered by the Air Force on an urgent basis. END |
|
The Drudge Report does not own, operate or maintain DrudgeReportArchives.com and is not responsible for it in any way.
Drudge Report : E-mail: drudge@drudgereport.com Matt Drudge's Book: Drudge Manifisto Matt Drudge on social media: Twitter (occasionally) Matt Drudge music: Playlist Home | DMCA | Link Decay General Support: |
