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The idea isn't just to blow stuff up.
Last edited Thu Apr 13, 2017, 09:34 PM - Edit history (1)
There are miles of tunnels that they are trying to collapse. For most bombs, the explosive is a combination of fuel and oxidizer. With a thermobaric weapon like the MOAB, it's all fuel. So it pulls oxygen from the surrounding air and uses it to fuel the explosion. So it'll suck the air out of tunnels, foxholes, ect, causing them to collapse. It also will suffocate anyone unlucky enough to be in there.