Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: MEDELMA@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU (Michael Edelman) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Bunker Busting Message-ID: <1991Jan23.033507.1302@cbnews.att.com> Date: 23 Jan 91 03:35:07 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 24 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Michael Edelman Latest intel from Iraq in the newspapers says that Saddam had constructed a number of modular underground concrete/steel shelters that can take a direct 2000-pounder hit with minimal damage. Obviously if this is where he's hiding this is a major target. I recall the "earthquake" and "Grand Slam" bombs of WWII- already mentioned on this list- that were developed by the same fellow who invented the skip bombs used on the Ruhr dams, and delivered by the same bomb group. Do we have anything in our arsenal today that performs the same function? The 12,500 pound "Daisy Cutter" mentioned in a posting sounds attractive for this purpose, but it apparantly has no cratering ability. Perhaps a penetrating version could be built. Are there other techniques that might work? Drawings in the local Gannet paper show a single airshaft with blast doors top and bottom and air shafts. Perhaps an F117 could lob a 2,000 pounder down one? Films of the F-117 dropping a bomb down an air shaft (if that's what it really was) make it sound possible.... --mike edelman medelma@cms.cc.wayne.edu medelma@waynest1