Air Force Airman Michael Roomsburg stopped the Humvee as Staff
Sgt. Chad Marten called to notify the security forces command post
that the Delta-5 external security response team was set to patrol
the outer perimeter road.
Remember that bomb the Air Force developed last year, just as
the US was preparing to invade Iraq? Weighing 21,000 pounds, it was
so big and so heavy that it had to be lashed to a pallet and
dropped from the back-end of a cargo plane. It was the be-all
end-all in air-dropped munitions. It was officially dubbed Massive
Ordnance Air Blast -- MOAB -- but it was quickly dubbed the Mother
of All Bombs.
Northrop Grumman Corporation has used a series of low-speed wind
tunnel tests to successfully validate the aerodynamic design of the
X-47B unmanned combat aerial vehicle it is developing for the Joint
Unmanned Combat Air Systems (J-UCAS) Concept Demonstration
Program.
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