Instant Jungle Landing Zone In Vietnam

[syscom3]

Nice little video clip with CH-54''s.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

WOW, THAT'S IMPRESSIVE!!!!

 

[evangilder]

Ker-fricken-boom! Hell of a shock wave.

 

[GrauGeist]

Sweet!

Wonder why they didn't use more of those?

 

[RabidAlien]

Ka-frikky-boom indeed! Wouldn't a good-sized fuel-air explosive do the same thing, but with a larger cleared area?

 

[Gnomey]

Shockwave was certainly impressive!

 

[Matt308]

I believe that is a fuel air explosive.

 

[RabidAlien]

Hmm. Vid said it was a 10,000-lb bomb with a modified nose so that it exploded above-ground and didn't create a crater. I'll have to watch it again.

Edit....sure as heck looks like an F/A. According to the vid, its an M121 10,000-lb'er. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-121_(bomb)

 

[Ferdinand Foch]

Woah!

That will certainly make way for a clean landing zone.

 

[Matt308]

Hmm. Vid said it was a 10,000-lb bomb with a modified nose so that it exploded above-ground and didn't create a crater. I'll have to watch it again.

Edit....sure as heck looks like an F/A. According to the vid, its an M121 10,000-lb'er. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-121_(bomb)

You are right. I thought it was a daisy cutter and always believed that was a FAE. I guess they can't make a FAE that big.

 

[RabidAlien]

Just from watching the vid (without any sound), I would've sworn that the blast was FAE, not conventional explosives. 10,000-lbs??? That'd leave a crater no matter how high up it went off! First time I watched the vid, I thought I'd mis-heard the size of the bomb, and just assumed that the "M121" designation was that of an FAE that I was unaware of (that happens a lot).