The Monster Bomb that Turned Ground into Butter
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- On the night of February 27, 1991, a tense silence settled over the war-torn skies above Baghdad. Mere hours before the impending ceasefire, two General Dynamics F-111F aircraft laden with mighty GBU-28 bombs embarked on a dangerous mission toward a target on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital.
Their destination was the al-Taji Airbase, approximately 15 miles northwest of Baghdad. The airbase had already endured the wrath of previous strikes, as F-117 Nighthawks had unleashed their GBU-27/B bombs, leaving a trail of destruction and "digging up the rose garden," as some accounts described it.
The first F-111F approached the target site. However, with the weight of their mission upon the crew, they released the bomb, only to realize it had fallen off-target.
It all depended on the second F-111F now. - Věda a technologie
I was a Weapons Systems Specialist with the 48th FW, stationed in Taif, Saudi Arabia, during Desert Shield/Storm. Fancy title for bomb loader. We knew ahead of time, that the GBU-28's were inbound from the states, and my crew and I were trying to be the ones who got the upload duty with those beauties, but that went to a crew that was on the day shift, and me and my crew loaded only at night. Nevertheless, I did get to see it on the ramp, before it went on its mission, and took a bunch of pics of them on our F-111F's. The aircraft had to have two MK-84s's (2000 lbs each) loaded on stations 3 & 4 on the left wing, just to get the balance close during flight. My crew and I loaded 352,500 lbs of live munitions, but would have LOVED to stake claim to those bad boys!
Did you get a achievement medal for those levels of munitions? That’s very cool! I was AGE so I’m sure you used our Jammers and MHU”s to load the bombs.
Yep, we pretty much all did. AF Meritorious Achievement medal. Yeah, I was a #2-man on the crew, but the #3-man was the one who drove the jammers. MJ-1's 99% of the time, and occasionally the MJ-4's. The big -60's for power on the a/c, etc. So long ago, my friend. Back on base, I worked in the load barn as a weapons load training instructor, but in Taif, we were humpin' bombs all night, just like any other crew. It was great to FINALLY get to do what you spend your career training for.
I left Turkey in October 1990 and was over at Mildenhall. They asked for volunteers before the air wars started, but wouldn’t take us because we were NATO assets. I guess they thought it was more important that we stayed behind and maintained Air Traffic Control systems so airflow would happen. You might’ve seen me at the BX computer store on the weekends because I was selling computers in my spare time. 😂. I’m kind of hard to miss because I’m 6’4”.
@@XAirForceThat's funny. I was selling Cat-V cables on my spare time. Nobody could get any and wanted to get onto the Iraqna and play games or talk to family. I bought $140 worth of line, crimpers, RJ45s and set to work making 10', 15', and 20' Straight-Through cables. Sold them for $10 to $15. Somebody didn't like that so they told the commander I had stolen SIPRnet line and was profiting off of government property. They ordered me to stop making cables. So I had all that stuff, I ended up packing it in the Connex to ship home. Ofcourse the Unit believing it was theirs. That whole experience coupled with a few others stayed with me and I couldn't wait to ETS from that hyper cynical unit.
I was at RAF Bentwaters when the 48th did the "LIBYA"!
"Turned Ground into Butter"
Combine that with a device that turns ground into bread, and you have solved world hunger!
The buttered toast-inator
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Marmalade...mmm...
The ingenuity which human beings will go to, in order to destroy each other, never ceases to amaze me. We are well on the way to enjoying the fate of the dinosaurs.
Oh that wasn't the Dinosaurs Fault, just some Proto Weapons Specialists trying out the Basic FAB-500,000,000,000 Butter Bombs
Yep. Human race: Does its best when beating the crap out of each other.
thank you very much for the red circle at 0:45 i wouldnt have seen the hole without it
This dude loves giant red arrows and circles
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Don't know what was used but a news report last week about Gaza said 200 feet underground "was not enough". One of the capabilities mentioned years ago is serial bunker busters. The first bomb goes in and blows, and the second bomb follows into the hole made by the first bomb and continues deeper. Sounds good to me.
Fortunately, some gasses are heavier than air. If you can get to one of the entrances, you can usually easily wipe out most tunnel systems.
@@WardenWolf There are some gases used in TIG or MIG welding that will do just fine and are readily available.
That's a nasty thought
Only if you are not the target man.
Im sure we have plenty of options since iran has been on the USA map for a while now. Id imagine a very low yield nuclear bomb combined with the technology of bunker busters etc.
Note to self: never build a bunker less than 1 kilometer deep, and reinforce it with 50 feet of concrete.
Its reported hamas has tunnels 6k down... but they are all in sandstone... sounds rsky to me
If you have whiskey, I am joining!
@@ronallens6204 That sounds like more dunecoon propaganda.
@@scottmurphy650 alot of fact started scifi ...i remenber something like the rods of God in a movie 10 15 years ago... scifi ray guns are now laser cannons on aircraft carriers
You'll end up with a "Mineshaft gap"
“It can penetrate thickness of 20’ of concrete”. Holy shit man! That’s incredible when you think about how powerful that has to be. 🙏🏼
And if the concrete is thicker they will use a series of bunker busters one after the next to pound their way down like a giant impact drill.
@@josephastier7421 That’s tight. I’d love to see that in action. From behind the safety of my keyboard of course 🤣
if ya dun think we have god rods already i dunno what will blow ur mind.. this shit is propa like ya we still suck lol
Recent Russian hypersonic missile destroyed a Ukrainian reinforced bunker nearly three hundred feet deep (I believe I have that correct).
In the process it took out and extraordinarily large group of high ranking military personnel and USA advisors
have you found those weapons of mass destruction yet mr. rumsfeld and co. ?
All based on the work of the GENIUS Barnes Wallace who dreamt this bomb up before WW2, he viewed that destroying Enemy Infrastructure in the 1930s.
It was not until they could get the casting technology right and a plane with a bomb bay big enough.
I think it was 1943 that the bomb was made, from memory it took 2 weeks to fill and weighed 10Tonnes, then it was fitted to the Lancaster.
This video should read an update of Barnes Wallace 1930 design.
I think grandslam penetrated the ground to 100M and then 10 tonnes of torpedo went bang.
It would sink bridges on foundations as it turned the ground to liquid.
Not 100m deepest was about 35m in sand.
another stupid war that we got lied into
@jantschierschky3461 If it was sand that would be pretty good , because they use it in bags to stop bullets
@@briansewell1480 bullets are different to bombs.
Barnes Wallace - the earthquake bomb. Why try to hit a bridge or a battleship when a near miss with an earthquake bomb destroys things.
The British used 12,000 pound and 20,000 pound bunker busters in WW2, to attack u-boat pens and the German battleship Tirpitz.
But did they turn the ground into butter?
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There was no butter left 😅@@justinweisel3337
What they nickname those? Tallboys is think
Bunker busters were first invented, introduced and used by the RAF during WW2 in order to penetrate German U-boat pens. They were carried by Lancaster bombers as no other aircraft could carry that weight.
The advantage the Lanc had was its large undivided bomb bay to fit the tallboy and grand slam deep penetrating bombs, not it's carrying capacity
They wouldn't have needed them if Bomber Harris listened to the Navy's repeated requests to bomb them while they were under construction. He finally did it when they were complete and flattened the French ports and had the cheek to turn round and say, I told you it would be pointless.
Admiral Donitz wrote he could not understand why the British did not bomb them when they were under construction he thought it was a very serious mistake.
@@berttrombetta4953still has off to Barnes Wallace, genius.
Saw the sub pens at Brest. Still in use at the time. Only three bombs penetrated through 24ft of reinforced concrete through the entire war. What was impressive were the craters they left. Built a medium sized building at the bottom of one.
During Ops Enduring Freedom, I was deployed to Al Taji base for 18 months.
Never underestimate the human's ability to kill each other with impunity
AMEN! . . and, thank GOD brave American patriots are well-trained, able-bodied, & and very willing to fulfill that mission to protect the American people as well as their vital interests around the globe. May god bless our troops, . . & all of the American people.✝✡☢☠
Those are not human they just look human underneath the flesh is pure evil. Read the book of Enoch it explains the worlds problems. Evil spirits roam the earth aka the "evil in man", "lovers and followers of evil" or the "evil heart" (spiritual energy)
And too often joy!
@@sammyposton5934grow up please and look beyond your own family… smh ☘️📚🎚️🇬🇧
You can thank Machinists and toolmakers for making this possible.
that barrel thing wasnt the first time that was suggested. you should make a video on the world war 2 style bunker busters. they made one called the amazon, the sampson and the Disney. they were all over 20000 pounds!
I love how a C-141 became a C-5A … and then into a C-17 cargo area.
thats when I stopped watching
And the C-17 loading what looked to be a satellite being shipped no less. lol
Also the f111 became an f4
If it’s turning the ground into butter, it’s not a monster bomb: it’s a MAGIC bomb! 🧈🥐🥞
Those poor people were toast.
Could be a very lucrative new manufacturing procedure.
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The new one turns the ground to cheese... a nice roquefort I think!!!!
I wouldn't care if the bomb turned the ground into margarine, since that stuff tastes like s**t anyway. But not butter, for heavens sake! Not delicious butter!
Imagine the oh shit moment when you see a warhead poke through your bunker ceiling!
It won't be there for long, don't worry.
The bunker, I mean.
Record Scratch
Narrator: it was that moment he knew he fucked up.
You may see it swell up but you won't hear it go off.
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These documentaries are AWESOME!!
Easily one of my favorite channels
Dark. This is an excellent video. Keep up the great work 👍
08:12 - Strazevica (Belgrade, Serbia) command center is under 100m (300 feet) of soil and rock. It was designed to withstand 20kt explosion (so if you drop a Hiroshima bomb directly on top of it, it would survive). The biggest "bunker buster bomb" NATO dropped there was 2.5 tones of weight and it simply failed to go deep enough.
A nuclear device is not made to penetrate a target.
The Americans have developed a fairly new bunker buster, the 30,000 lb. GBU57. It will supposedly penetrate 200 ft. of concrete.
Reminds me of a book called Dam Busters I read in the early 1950s. It was mostly about those round bouncing bombs, but I think it had something like these.
Nah, dam busters or (Bouncing Barrel Bombs) were essentially modified depth charges that they packed with more explosives, they would come in on the lake side of the dam, drop the barrel and it would skip across the water, hit the top of the dam and roll over and down the face of the dam before it exploded.
Incredible video! I know things happened super fast just prior to January 15, 1991! All sorts of things in all USA military branches
Great stuff. Informative without fluff.
And the USAF decided to go with the GBU-57 MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator). Also, I'm stoked to see that you used footage of AMMO troops in the video, as I was one for my 12 year Air Force career. Most times in videos like this they'll only show the loaders, which in the Air Force is a completely different AFSC/MOS.
My grandfather built and wrote the handling and shipping manuals for GBU’s at Eglin AFB. I even got to see some tests
Thank you Dark Dude.
Love these videos
Amazing new method of making butter. The bigger the bomb, the more butter you get. No cows required.
WWII earthquake bombs (Tallboy & Grand Slam) used by the UK in WWII could penetrate the U-boat pens and V1 facilities.
They were also capable of destroying railway viaducts and the like by exploding deep beneath them causing a "trapdoor effect" and the target structure dropped into the chasm thus created.
The Tirpitz was sunk by a combination of direct hits and near misses. The near misses dug out the sandbank below the Tirpitz so thatit capsized as a result of the damage caused.
If they had had the benefit of being guided they would have been even more effective.
20 feet of concrete... Hot damn...
No, “Hot Butter”
My journey was indeed enthralling.
Excellent channel
i wonder how it would compare to the WW2 Grand Slam bomb - it was designed on the dame principles, but was a LOT larger.
There is nothing like a dame. Nothing in the world.
The deadliest person in the world is the top explosive designer whom immigrated from Nam as a child.
this bomb perfomed well in desert environments...but didnt live up to expectations in Czechoslovakia...hardened earth and rock is going to be harder to bust through than sandstone.
Show the correct aircraft mate! Fkn delivered by a C-141 Starlifter and shows a C-5 Galaxy. Says "F-111E/F and shows a bloody F4 Phantom.
To be fair it was in the background rolling by
It sure drives home the saying:
_"You can run...._
_but _*_you can't hide!!"_*
I worked on this program in the early 90s...... It was interesting.
Without the big arrow pointing at it I wouldn't have noticed the big red bomb in the picture.
Love bunker busters!
And now, because of this video, they’ll go deeper. But, knowing us, it won’t make a difference.
Ive always wondered How butter was made Thank you..
These advanced bunker busters are utilizing entirely new technology. They are not just tweaking of old bunker busters, or simply adding aluminum powder to the explosives.
We made these at the Watervliet Arsenal
First. Love your show sir
Who picks the footage for these videos? Talking about f117's and showing f111's.... talking about f111's and showing f4 phantoms....
Just enjoy the video dude. No one cares about that nonsense detail you’re wincing on about.
@@June3toJune20 I get it. In this modern world like yourself don't concern yourself with facts or the thrust, but many do. If someone is going to make a video about facts, then get things right. I understand these channels have blown up and now put out several videos a day to bring in that revenue, but the older ones were much better.
@@sinformant well said! It's just a quick cash grab on youtube. No wonder there are so many ignorant people spouting crap they read online. No pride in one's work these days!
Those aren’t F-4 phantoms, they are in fact F-111 aardvarks….. and it did show an F-117 when it was mentioned. At 0:50 I am looking at an F-111 and there’s nothing that makes it look like an F-4
These latter day unemployed goombahs don’t research.
Bomb in thumbnail definitely isn’t a gun-28😂
I got all excited since it looked MOP sized.
Just imagine if USA was the only country not possessing such destructive weapons ??????
I like the " Daisy Cutter" used in Tora Bora
Thanks.
And now why people are watching this video, The top brass in Washington are coming up with a top secret mission code name Balls deep!!! 😂😂😂😂
I have a concrete company, penetrating 20’ of reinforced concrete is crazy. That is insane.
What a great universe we are in
Never ceases to amaze me the time money and effort we have put in in order to butcher each other
As a maintenance munitions officer, I had the opportunity to work on follow on programs (Advance Direct Strike Weapons) to the GBU 28 just a few months after Desert Storm. My boss was the program manger for the BLU 113. Our target sets were deep rock and concrete bunkers. One of the primary concerns was carrying such a load and how it could be made lighter than the GBU-28 and more effective.
Turns ground to butter and humans into jelly .
I'm impressed when they call GBU 28 a missile and not a bomb
It’s like giving the blueprint to the enemies of the USA with the details like Cannon barrels used as the bunker bomb housing .
Delivered by one of greatest plane, F-111Es. A ship that will be forgotten by my military generation.
Yeah, the F111 Arrdvark rules. One of my faves too. Capable of super fast, super low intrusion before stealth. Could deliver nukes. Swing wings, Side by side crew capsule. And it looks great doing all that. Look good, play good.
People had to have had their eyes glued shut and then the Spark Vark which killed more tanks in Gulf War than the A-10.@@hgr.7857
The speed at which this thing was developed and tested was mind numbing.
But it begs the question, was it really that fast or is everything else developed
by US military industry just really slow. Which seems much more reasonable.
Especially when you consider some of the insane costs that go towards R-n-D.
I worked on the project to build this at the Watervliet arsenal and its still considered one of the quickest projects to go from concept to being made and deployed
Then there's another option. Maybe they have things nobody was told about. Can design things rather quickly when it's already been done before.
I heard they found the howitzer gun barrels were laying around and rusty. They needed a slim long object to pour the tritanal in. Like a long cigar shape. The rusty howitzer barrels did the trick. One guy told the barrels were still warm from the tritanal being poured in. I interviewed Col. White and his WSO after the raid. Story was published in a book about the 48th FW after the war. It was called "When Diplomacy Failed"
People need to remember that by the time we see a military gadget it's already been in planning and production for 40 years.
Was developed in 70s actually had to sign a 50 year nondisclosure agreement nuff said
GBU-57A/B MOP- 27,125 lb.
Just as well there was a big red arrow pointing to that bomb in the thumbnail of this video. I wouldn’t have had any idea where to look otherwise.
Me too! LOL
"Unfortunately" did nit work in Yugoslavia?! For many of us it was VERY FORTUNATE! You got the "invisible" F-117A knocked out too - sorry we did not know it was invisible ;-))
I didn’t realize it took so much to make butter. I’m going to really enjoy and appreciate it , from now on.
A really interesting piece, but as always you completely spoil it by talking about one thing - for example a F1-11 in this case then throwing in pictures of any old plane footage you can find, we had some F-4 Phantoms in this, a F-15, wouldn't of surprised me to see a Mustang and a Sopworth Camel make an appearance along with the Memphis Belle.
I always wondered how butter was made.
lmao
Wow. A bomb that makes butter
Cool
Isn’t this the bomb that was basically a howitzer barrel filled with high explosives?!
:edit: YES!!!
Nice!
I remember operation deep throat it was right after operation green door… excellent flicks
If I am a bunker designer ... I would go for a consideration that can withstand "bunker busters". I can already think of one
If I am a bomb designer....I would go for a consideration that can penetrate your "bunker buster" resistant bunker. I can already think of one too.
I think you might be getting some bad butter
Butter ground, butter witda butter- butter ground, ground witda butter onem.
" I can't believe it's not butter ! ".... is what no-one said when the bomb exploded....
And then the people left can use the butter. Win, Win.
I thought this might be about the MOAB that was used in the mountains of Afghanistan. I think it weighed close to 25,000 pounds.
MC-130 guys : Hold my beer ( airdrops a 15,000 pound Blu-82 )
Why do you show the C-5 Galaxy when you're talking about a C-141?
You must be new to this channel. showing the wrong aircraft is kind of a thing
Im sure at times it is hard to get enough actual footage to fill the time of the video, after all its not like they use these bombs every day.
C-141 is hardly used anymore
Or show an F-4 when talking about a F111….
If only human kind spend all the money on curing people instead of killing each other...
Then world population would run rampant and pollyticks couldn't take over as easy
I like your channel. Interesting dialogue, but you really need to work on the video clips you use. Talking about F-111s, but showing clips of F-15s and F-4s. Talking about C-141s (which were taken out of service long before Desert Storm), but showing C-5s. I could go on, but you get the idea.
Hopefully we can all live in peace
A poxy little 4,400 pounder? That's not a bunker buster! Look at the RAF's Tallboy 12,000 pounder with a tungsten steel armour piercing nose - that's a bunker buster! It sank the unsinkable battleship Tirpitz and could penetrate about 30 feet of reinforced concrete. The RAF also had a 22,000 lb version called Grand Slam, but it was not much used as it was a bit too large to be practical.
WAIT, Operation DEEP THROAT?!? Who came up w/that title, RON JEREMY?! I thought MY HEAD WAS IN THE GUTTER. 😂
Operation Peter North was simply messy...😮
@@Original50 so I’ve heard, ha. 😂✌️
Interesting
This was a “ captain obvious” retell of information we already had
That bomb is purely offensive, not defensive. So it increased South Korea offensive capability
You showed a C-5 Galaxy when you mentioned the bombs were brought to Iraq inside of a C-141 😂
Why are you guys using f4 phantoms as examples of f111. Other footage is erroneous also. Am I just over shooting the mark?
Dark Tech is awesome.
OMG its so powerful this bombs
I would guess that the Mossad knows the structure profiles of Iran's nuclear facilities and has given that info to the US to design an appropriate weapon.
In WW2 the british designed 28,000 pound bombs to destroy the submarine pens. The bombs were designed to not neccesarily hit the bunkers but land close and bury themselves deep. They had timed fuses so the bombs all detonated af the same time and created an earthquake like shock wave that shook the structures apart. Concrete is strong in compression but is relatively brittle.
That's not how the bombs destroyed submarine pens. Do some research.
M.o.a.b or the the "fubar" bomb 😂
You make this sound like it was the first ever "Bunker Buster" but let's give credit where credit is due. The Brits were the first develop a true bunker buster in WWII with their "Tall Boy" bombs that used mass alone to deeply penetrate to take out underground bunkers. Then the British Navy developed the Disney Boom that was smaller in diameter AND had a rocket motor to boost the speed. However, these early bombs lacked precision guidance for better effectiveness. So I'll grant that the GBU-28 is new in the regards of putting a skinny, heavy, delayed detonation bomb on target, but the concept of the bomb is not new at all.
I was actually watching a video about what you’re talking about, and this one was the next recommended video.
He makes it pretty clear that bunker busters already existed but still weren’t capable of accomplishing the mission at hand. Enter the GBU-28
He actually didn't buttplug, did you even watch the video?
@@andrewmiller1260 I’m glad somebody corrected that😂
You do know you can't compare the old bombs to the new bombs. He was basically enhancing the point this bomb was in a whole new class of its own.
How does the GBU-28compare to the Grand Slam bombs:? Which would be more powerful , being dropped from 40000 feet a 8000 pound bomb or a 22000 pound bomb .
Grand slam was more powerful and penetrated to 100M, it destroyed bridges by sinking the whole structure into the ground.
Well, different design and purposes, one was designed to cause a quake and use seismic waves for destruction. Other is a penetrator. There is an interesting CZcams video about tests conducted on the valentine bunker after WW2.
As designed by Banes Wallis the Tallboy and Grand Slam were deep penetration bombs, they were nicknamed earthquake bombs.@@jantschierschky3461
When a deep target absolutely, positively has to be destroyed, try the fairly new 30,000lb. GBU57. It has harder steel than anything before it, so it can penetrate deep, and has modern explosives that are far more powerful than anything made in WW2.
So, basically, they caught up with RAF Bomber Command capabilities from 1944?
please please edit the correct aircraft to match the audio cause this just drove me crazy. but the story line was good
I can't believe it's not butter!