The Massive Bomb that Penetrated the Ground Like Butter
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- čas přidán 16. 04. 2023
- Despite months of achieving one victory after the other and fearsomely smothering Saddam Hussein's regime into the very inner cores of Baghdad, the defiant Iraqi forces refused to yield to the Western coalition, risking prolonging the violent conflict spun from the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
The Iraqi high command orchestrated its resistance efforts from the reinforced depths of the fortified underground bunkers specifically designed to withstand even the most potent American bombs.
With the world eagerly awaiting a resolution to the brutal conflict, the US rushed to develop a new unprecedented solution to the bunker problem.
The American engineers then got to work and, within three weeks, came up with a bomb casing made out of pieces of an artillery gun. The weapon was so robust that it could penetrate even the most well-protected bunkers in the world… - Věda a technologie
“If I had a nickel for every time the US invented a bomb that ended a war I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird how its happened twice.”
He makes half this crap up in his videos!
*At **1:29** THAT IS NOT George H. W. Bush. Pretty weak crap for someone who makes mini docs.*
youd be rich we litraly invented everything cars tanks subs planes jets rockets computers i dare you to name anything we didn't invent lol
It's the pennies for every bomb that (prevented) a war that really gets messy in the car though
@@Wooargh What do you mean we? What did you invent?
1:31 That’s not George H. W. Bush.
I was going to say that, Bush Jr, instead of Bush father
I caught that too. We're showing our age
I think footage of Dubya appears at 6:31 as well.
I am sure they put such an error in every clip to get comments
@@dorad100 :😱
While studying electronics in the mid 90's, after a 10 year Army career, we were discussing the Gulf War and advancements made during the war including the GBU 28. Our instructor, a retired sailor who went into weapons design after his navy service, told us he was on the design team for the GBU 28. He told us that they went from idea to design to building and to testing in 19 days.
Incredible. Thanks for the intel. 👍 Merica!
If they make these weapons so fast then why do they cost as much as they do
@@jeremyzzz5067 they made a prototype fast, that does not mean it’s cheap however Given the 145k cost per unit they are pretty cheap considering the amount of material they can penetrate.
@@jeremyzzz5067: These weapons were made fast and made cheap; they used existing components, howitzer barrel, guidance system and fins. These basically were mostly about the construction and new explosive. This is a rarity however as most things get expensive through cost over-runs and everyone getting a piece, like the F-35.
Now that's some straight " 'Merica! " shit right there. I mean the 1st test bomb was soo deep it woukd cost too much to pull out for examination!
America literally said oh you got bunkers hold my beer
NOW, I am Waiting for your NEXT video featuring the GBU-72 New and Improved version of the Bunker Buster, buster!
I got to explore a lot of these blown up bunkers, and it was absolutely mind-blowing.
@@jonathanhammond3975 what did you see that fascinated you?
@@galatians-2.20 americans were fascinated as well with what They Did Not see…..no wmd….woooops
@@ronran5755 No whops. I'm pretty sure they knew that, and didn't tell their allies. But they did rid the world of a dictator, which is almost always a good thing.
RIP F-111 Aardvark 🛩️💣🚀
An interesting story. I was in combat once recovering a down helicopter. We had close in support, but then we had the F-111 bomb run near us. The ground had a rumble as the bombs exploded one after that other. Felt really assuring. I had been shot down the day before then mortar so I needed that rumbling sound.
Come to Australia - we still fly them!
I stumbled across the remnants of one of these 30 feet below the floor of a blown up earth-covered hardened bunker in Baghdad near BIAP. It had also blown the 3 foot thick concrete-reinforced doors some 50 feet into a protective earthen berm. It impressed me.
I can’t imagine being on the receiving end of one of these. The sheer horror and panic they must have felt once they learned their deepest bunkers were no longer safe and were, in fact, death traps….
@@cruisinguy6024 This is one of those "fuck around and find out" bombs. 😂
I'm sure those in the bunker at the time were impressed more!
@@dextermorgan1 Lol seriously
@John Ervine -- Thank you for your service and welcome home.
Retired USAF AMMO here. I remember when these were first delivered to us. We had to keep tighter security on them than even the "other bombs" in the dump. We had to move them during specific times of the day, and we couldn't even let the SF folks see them.
San Franciscans? Or Science Fiction folks?
@@drmodestoesq 🤦 no,
SF = Security Forces
The Us realllly knows how to end wars with just two bombs 😬
All that work to blow up bunkers just to find out he's hiding in a hole on a farm.
It's probably the reason why he was hiding in a Rat Hole on a farm.
@@pat36a I just think it's kind of funny that the 2 most sought after people by the US since Hitler were in a hole and a regular house
Wrong war
@@paulyman28779 oh yeah, I forgot that by the time Iraqi Freedom happened we lost most of that technology and what we had left was worthless.
@@JamesFromTexas They clearly spent all of their time in those spots, moving around is so difficult 😂
1:30 That's not George H.W Bush, that's his son
ikr..when the bomb he features was rush into production, his video shows the same..great vid but shows clips of different bush and other clips from 2003 operation iraqi freedom
Glad I'm not going crazy. I'm like which invasion are they talking about? Am I so high that I don't even know what decade I'm looking at?
@@drewb.4069 Yeah, like that clip of tearing down his statue. I swear that's from 03 or 04.
@@hanrockabrand95 It is...
They’re both evil satan worshippers so who cares either way. They both have a special place waiting for them in HELL!!
This was not the least tested bomb type. That honor goes to the two atomic bombs dropped in WWII.
LoL, everyone's focused on which bush it was. Usually you only see people focused on the Bushes when hunting with Dick Cheney... 😬😂
There are precisely two bombs in history that can be credited with helping to end a war: The atomic bomb, and the GBU-28.
Now if we combine both we could move mountains
@@kamenwaticlients literally
Many mainstream historians think that it wasn't the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that got the Imperial Japanese to surrender.
@@drmodestoesq At this point, anything "mainstream" I take with a heaping pile of salt.
Being mainstream doesn't always mean they're being honest, or are always right.
The Soviets invading into China and Manchuria was the final straw for japan@@drmodestoesq
Howitzer barrels as bomb casings weighing over 2.5 tons at super sonic speed... are you kidding...? I love this baby!!!!!
No where to run now baby, no where to hide. Now I can't get that song out of my head. 🤪👍👍🇺🇸
Remember kids, it’s never a war crime the first time.
I love your videos, but you guys could do a fantastic comedy routine with putting the wrong pictures while you give a very serious essay .
There are known Bushes, then there are unknown Bushes
Where's Jeb?
Ha ha ha, thats why I’m here!!! Bush is Bush…
Comedians.
WELL, SURE, WHEN YOU SOUND LIKE W BUSH YOU CAN BECOME COMEDY MATERIAL FOR JUST ABOUT ANYTHING
Didn't the R.A.F. drop a weapon called Grand Slam, and another called Tall Boy in WWII?
Living near Eglin, you can feel when these, and other massive bombs, were tested.
We made bombs out of some old guns we had laying around.
Using old gun barrels for penetration has been done in WW2 with Barnes Walliss' 5-ton 'Tallboy' bomb, used to sink the Turpitz , destroy the German bunkers at La Coupole, and the tunnels at Saumur.
Yeah, the Brits did most things first. WW2 may have been over more quickly if Americans had been willing to take advice from the British on a lot of things.
@@chrissmith2114 way to point fingers at an ALLY and make a problem out of nothing.
Y'all forget we were fighting two wars at once, on two sides of the world itself?
Get off your high horse and cut us some slack, we were still practically in depression until war juiced up the economy.
@@septimus7524 You forget that Britain and commonwealth did most of the ground fighting in Europe ( and all of the land fighting against Japanese in Asia, as well as fighting Germany in north Africa ), that Britain out-produced Germany in weapons on its own, and still supplied thousands of aircraft, tanks, and other stuff to Russia. Britain also had to load aircraft carriers to USA for use in pacific, and our carriers had metal decks, unlike the wooden decks of USA stuff. If a kamikaze hit a British carrier a few sailors with a sweeping brush could clear the mess off steel deck in 20 minutes, with USA carrier it could well be game over. USA did not listen to British, although Britain had been fighting Germans for a couple of years before USA had pearl Harbour and decided to join in, also it was Germany that declared war on USA, while Britain had had the guts to declare war on Germany ( which legally made us the aggressor and we had to make reparations to Germany after the war, which involved sending a lot of our best machine tools and equipment to Germany, the British army also started the VW factory back into production ). The reason Americans suffered so badly in D Day was that they launched the British floating tanks ( from British made tank carrying assault vehicles by the way ) from way too far out in stormy seas and they sank, the British and Canadians had the courage to take their ships in closer and most of them made it to the beaches so saved lives of infantry - the British had made floating mine-clearing tanks called 'funnies' and the Americans laughed at them, but lost a lot of men because they never made the beaches. Yanks also messed up Mulberry floating harbours with their 'not made in America' silliness, they did not bother to fit the sections together and anchor them properly so they were badly damaged by the sea. The list of American mistakes goes on and on, and remember UK factories were getting bombed, that never happened to American factories. Americans believe the Hollywood version of the war and that they won it on their own - but Britain fought the Nazis for 2 years before the 7th cavalry got out of bed.
@@chrissmith2114h yes the Brit's had everything under control, guess that 4 million tons of equipment, food, supplies and munitions didn't help at all.
Remind me again was it civilian boats rescuing Brit's from France in their first encounter with Germany?
@@NavyVet4955 LOL, American first encounter with Germany was years later.... civilian boats used because the sea was too shallow for the navy to get in close, The British stupidly allowed the French to command the BEF that was rescued at Dunkirk, with many French troops, yes those cheese eating surrender monkeys... Remind me again how UK on their own outproduced Germany, while being bombed. Britain also supplied Russia with many tons of weapons - and supplied America with many secrets to enable atom bomb, code breaking, lightweight airborne radar, jet engine, gyro and reflector gunsight etc etc. Remind me again why the floating tanks UK supplied to America for D Day sank ( because the US navy was too scared to go close in to launch them like British navy did ) Remind me again why the American section of Mulberry harbour failed ( because Americans were sloppy with their putting it together ). If Britain had surrendered to Germany all of USA would now be speaking German, because once Germany controlled all of Europe then American would have fallen in a short time. Do not think America beat the Japanese on their own either, like Hollywood portrays, British and Commonwealth forces were fighting throughout Asia. The Americans even had to borrow aircraft carriers off Britain, the ones with steel decks - that when they got hit by Japanese it took 10 sailors with brooms could clear the deck ready for use, while the American wooden deck ones were on fire and sinking.
You know it's going to be informative and accurate when the first seconds of the video show footage from the 2003 invasion of Iraq while the narrator talks about Saddam's invasion of Kuwait.
And confused what Bush he was talking about.
This channel is becoming a 🤡 show!
He says Dubya. lol
@@jeffallen3382
Can't hide from you now!
Wrong George Bush you need the OG CIA George Bush
George Bush senior who worked for the CIA when Kennedy was murdered?? Do some homework on that one. Both father and son are traitors to America. Please look into this. CIA had four leaders in the Bush Sr. yrs do to the fact this dept had enough power to overthrow all governments. Please check this out.
I recall them dropping one in the frozen Alaskan Tundra in the 90’s. Its final depth was never officially released.
WOW. A very spicy meatball. Good vid keep up the good work.
While it was George H. W. Bush, You showed George W Bush.
I don't care what anybody says. Without America the world as we know it would not have existed. God bless America and its people.
I think it was brilliant to use shot-out howitzer barrels for bombs casings. Strong and rigid making for excellent soil penetration.
For sure they also make great tomato stakes.
You’ve got the wrong President Bush in there. The elder Bush was the President when Iraq invaded Kuwait.
Remarkable high level ingenuity at its best truly amazing
GBU28 aka Bunker Buster ... woah it's such an impressive heavy weapon. Great video
Wrong Bush. You showed Junior. Should have been Senior.
Very cool and informative video ,great work👍👍👍
Second World War the British Empire came up with their own ground penetrating bombs the Grand Slam and also Tall Boy aka Earthquake bomb. It actually spins around but yet the nose penetrate the ground to 110 feet deep before exploding.
Was also supersonic and yes the fins made it spin to aid in stability, like a bullet. Interesting in that they were also filled with a liquid explosive called Torpex which took time to set.
Very good at destroying 20m thick reinforced concrete roofs on the U Boat pens, so these guys were the grand daddys of this one so not really unprecedented.
Thank you for your content!
Three weeks from requirement to dropping the first weapons? I have an idea of the process involved. Abandon all hope, ye that cross the line in the sand! Its not quite the Manhattan Project (less than three years to create the atom bomb and use two in combat) but the atomic bomb was just speculation in 1942. The deep penetration bomb used a lot of off-the-shelf components and modern computers to calculate the ballistic tables (even smart bombs have ballistic trajectories) sped production.
Note that the bomb described was too big and too heavy for the F-117A Nighthawk "stealth fighter." Also note that despite being smart bombs, half missed the intended target, but WW2 bombs were famous for having less than half hit within a mile of their intended targets.
That’s crazy fast. It’s really why we win.
@@danielpeters2282 Allied forces bogged down in the Bocage country just after the Normandy invasion--and some sergeant supporting the front-line tanks created the Rhino edition of the Sherman tank to deal with hedgerows. Problem--solution. To rub salt into the injury, the German tank barriers were repurposed into those hedge-gobbling teeth on the Rhino Shermans.
Britain used 22,000 pound grand slam bombs in WW2.
Don’t forget the Shadow Spit Head Tactical Munition Bomb (SSHTC) Especially considering, the right hand gear mule switch which worked on ALL steel BSB bunkers. Oh yeah, hats off to Sargent Billy Back Mack and all the boys in yellow.
Yep- Good Old Sargent BBM
My synopsis you can dig but you CANNOT HIDE!🤬
Wrong Bush lol
He did say H. W. but used the wrong pic.
I totaly remeber when they said they had these and used them. Back then we had no idea how they were made or how they were designed. I do remeber we knew they were a delayed explosion. It was cool after all these years to get the infor and fully understand how they work now. Way cool, thanks.
your content is undervalued. Great video!
Huh? Half this stuff he makes up! LOL
Imagine hiding 150ft in the ground:
oh hey.. boom. 💥
Everybodys a gangster until Mortar guns start falling from the sky.
Well thats the wrong Bush lol.
Thanks for the content 😊
"Cause baby there AINT NO BUNKER DEEP ENOUGH! AINT NO CONCRETE THICK ENOUGH! AINT NO TARGET HARD ENOUGH to keep me from getting to you, babe!" 🧨
A 2 day turn around is just crazy!
LOOK OUT PUTLER !
I love bombs. Big bombs. Little bombs. I love them all.
7:42 They really should've called it the 'War Ender"
The British had a 22,000 pound ( 10 tons ) earthquake bomb in WW2 called grand slam, and the 10,000 pounds of 'torpex' explosive had to be melted and poured into them. The smaller 'tallboy' ( 12,000 pound ) bombs sank the Tirpitz in a Fjord. Only the fabulous Lancaster could carry such huge bombs...while the 'Flying Fortress' could not carry many more bombs than the Mosquito, 'Heavy Bomber' is supposed to refer to the bomb load, not the weight of the aircraft.
True - but if your bomber doesn't carry a heavy load, there are no rules against building twice or three times as many. Carrying those really big suckers was a problem not thought of until Barnes Wallis came up with his Tallboys & Grand Slams. It's quite a balancing act to design a bomb that's a really good penetrator while still having beaucoup explosive power. It's a surprise that the USAF did not already have a weapon already in its arsenal. It's not as though they didn't know that there might be a need for such a thing. It seems the army was ahead of the game with heavy high speed darts for piercing tank armour (APFSDS long dart penetrator) ... but so was everyone else. The WW2 Disney bomb was an idea looking for an accurate guidance system. Lots of them would not have been a problem. A daisy chain of these weapons, if accuracy was (is) fixed, is an idea now in use. Having stood behind a vintage eight inch howitzer when it fired has made many people, even me, think those old things would be more use re-made as heavy penetrators. It's no surprise that it took only 19 days to build the first one when a need was finally acknowledged.
Abigail writes in to the Dark Tech hotline: 'Sir, it's not butter..it's buddah..like a hot bourekas slathered with buddah'...capiche?
To notch doc.
GBU 28 was designed with retired 8 inch Howetzer barrels. I am inpressed. I saw for my self the 8 inch Howetzer and the 175mm Howetzers used in Viet Nam. These are very big guns.
That was Dubya. Not H.Dubya
They will never get me in my tactical treehouse 💥🙀
Iraqi bunkers had women and children too, USA named it 'collateral damage'. Scraping flesh from bunkerwalls is nasty business 😢
so this is why the south park characters where worried about Saddam Hussein making weapons in heaven
Saddam said it would be the Mother of all Wars. Pretty much him yelling for his Mama LMAO
You referenced the wrong George Bush at the 1:30 mark. It was George Bush Sr who was President during Desert Storm/ Shield.
There is always solutions to kill the bombs way before these can hit the target. But bombs have the limits, what these can not exceed.
Preeeety sure if you ask, "What was the bomb that ended a war?", most people will not say the GBU-28..
That thing is nasty
The new bomb is amazing, but it's penetration depth is classified.
3 weeks. THREE weeks.
i wanted to hear you say chass-iss ! nonetheless content is absolute quality imho. and secretly i really enjoy your narration its so relaxing ..sincerely!
cheers to you boss 👍
One of your better videos - you cut to the chase.
Really? I thought it was one of their worst. I was somewhat confused with all of the edits with videos from the second gulf War while talking about the first. Never showed George H W Bush, but showed George W Bush several times. It's like a WW1 video saying Kaiser Wilhelm but showing pictures of Hitler and footage from WW2 mixed in with WW1.
@@paulyman28779 I'm starting to think this channel has 100's of bots saying that bs. Half the crap this channel shows & talks about it made up!
Dark Tech indeed.
Don’t Mess With The U.S.!!! 🇺🇸
we have come a long way from long bows; - one story that I enjoyed was about the column of allied Tanks that found itself surrounded by enemy artillery, - this proved to be most unfortunate for the enemy artillery...
The concept stays the same it just gets deadlier, fling a rock at the enemy except now our rocks weigh several tons, explode, and are flung by rockets not strings
Many think this is about high technology, but it isn't. It's about a thick, very hard steel casing with a high aspect ratio. The heat-treated gun barrel casing is so hard and stiff that it will not deform. Think of it as an arrow. A 30" 400-grain arrow at 200 fps will penetrate deeply into a sandbag. A 6" 400-grain arrow at 200 FPS will not.
Amazing
Could you please turn up the volume a bit. With mine turned all the way up I can barely hear you with any background noise
A very impressive weapon
This is why I am glad to be American. Look at how quickly America was able to create a solution to an immediate problem. It's amazing what people can come up with if given the freedom to do so. Luckily, Something dictatorial regimes have yet to learn and probably never will. You don't get the best out of someone holding a gun to their head.
Yet, a bunker buster seems to do the trick!
As these things always turn out, it's more complicated than "Iraq invaded Kuwait because territory."
Iraq had been complaining to the UN for years about the dam that Turkey was building across the headwaters of the River Tigris, which supplied a huge portion of Iraq's water. Turkey refused to compromise their megaproject, and Iraq was left to either meekly accept that Turkey had the ultimate Sword of Damocles or to do something drastic to get some attention. As it turns out, the invasion of Kuwait hugely backfired on Iraq.
Oh, and when the UK created the state of Iraq out of the rubble of the Ottoman Empire in 1919, Kuwait was originally a part of that territory. It was a number of years later that the UK set up Kuwait as a nation independent of Baghdad. This was almost certainly a deliberate ploy to limit Iraq's influence in the region by limiting them to just one seaport on the Persian Gulf.
Very cool.
Wow, that bomb really did a number on the ground! It went through that dirt like it was butter - I guess you could say the ground was toast! 😂 But in all seriousness, it's kind of terrifying to think about the destructive power of such a massive bomb. Let's hope we can find a way to resolve conflicts without resorting to such destructive measures. 🙏
Speak softly and carry a big stick
Good luck with that.
@@matthewday7565 the problem is that we never speak softly and we’re continually using our sticks. We have more troops in more countries today than we did at the end of the Cold War.
Wishful thinking me thinks!
@@mcinteer19 oi, shut up and be proud. I'd rather bet on you rather than the chinese..
1:31 Wrong Bush depicted 1:31
One bush can sniff the other bush's bush
I remember flipping thru a book called Jane's Fighter Aircraft
that showcased all the most iconic fighters from different countries and in it they would show you a regular picture and also an exploded diagram that illustrated the inner workings of the aircrafts.
So, I'm looking at this one that is basically Russia's answer to the Harrier AV-8b (Yak-33 or something like that)
In the exploded diagram it showed that the Russian engineers had solved the vertical thrust problem not by fixing variable nozzles to vector the thrust downward but by installing 2 additional smaller ( about the size of an APU) jet engines in the downward orientation
as well as a lateral main engine.
It just seemed so wack.
It was as if they spied the Harrier from a distance and didn't get any real intel from us as to the Harrier's variable nozzles.
This is so cool
No need bunker buster anymore
Now just bury the exits good for 20years
Looking at the grid fins I keep thinking about the Starship being weaponized.
liked and subscribed
Love Ya Man!!!
God bless America.
was really confused when you were talking about desert storm and then showing footage of oif...
01:13 Strove, not strived.
Ionisation of a 21st century WMD, with 2 stage detonation process, needs to be considered. The uses of a simple Magnetron are simply amazing to behold.
35 years ago, plasma arc reactors were considered a fantasy by my chemistry teacher, when I brooched the subject, as a possible source of propulsion technology for space travel.
Now, that same theory has been given credence through a quartz crystal interchange of ions, ignited by plasma.
Surely, further extrapolation of that same practice can be used to essentially "fry the ground" of enemies that stand upon it, rather than the sledgehammer to crack a nut nuclear option. Non?
Land isn't lost, and with the 2 stage detonation; resulting extra casualties aren't caught in "friendly fire."
If they make it a rocket the penetration power is almost limitless. Right now it’s just a gravity bomb, only holding the kinetic energy of the relatively low terminal velocity from gravity alone.
And they all got paid ,handsomely
Imagine that when man attacks GOD'S ANGELS in Armageddon ALL these weapons ain't doing squat and Michael gonna WOOP ARSE!
Considering what was left of Saddam's army was shattered remnants in headlong retreat from the southern portions of Iraq, I don't think these bombs are what ended the Gulf War. There was great caution on the Coalition side to limit the extent of the war. There were significant numbers of troops from Syria and Egypt (1 division each), plus others from many Arab nations deployed, all with the understanding that the *only* objective was to liberate Kuwait. Bush Sr. was careful to not go "too far" and push for toppling Saddam's regime, which could have immediately alienated most of our allies. It's also why we failed to support Kurdish and Shi'ite uprisings in northern and southern Iraq right after the cease-fire. I remember watching them fighting just a few kilometers away in Nasiriya and being helpless to do anything about it.
as an iraqi kid at that time, i saw the devastation of these bombs on government high profile buildings. my childhood memories are all war and crap.... tough luck.
At 6:33 you also show George W Bush. It seems to me you don’t understand that George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush are not the same people.
Oh, whatever.
It's only history...😂
LOL . i was also gonna make that comment ;)
Also the people tearing down statues was the second war, and the spider hole was also second gulf War.
@@reddiver7293 ONLY history? 🤦♂️
Did not know that "butter penetrates ground" - surely you must have meant like a hot knife penetrates butter
“Instantly submerging itself into the ground; as if it were butter.” Exact quote.
The ground is the butter, not the bomb…
I watched one of these remove a mountain top.
you need a heavy jet like the F-15E Strike Eagle multi role interdictor strike fighter to deploy the GBU-28 Bunker Buster guided munitions . . . incorporating such destructive force in land attack cruise missiles could be a game changer . . .