Correct me if I'm wrong...

[link|http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/28/se.02.html|Here]:

KEVIN SITES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Carol. I am actually standing in what we believed to be a 500-pound bomb crater. As you've seen us all week, we've been reporting from the rooftop of the building we rented in Chamchamal. Now we are actually reporting from the Iraqi position on the hillside that coalition forces hit so fiercely just two days ago.

We hiked up here today with our videophone gear and we got a chance to look around this command bunker and it is just literally obliterated. I don't have an ISB that reaches far enough down into this crater but just to give you an idea of the size, it's probably about 25 feet in circumference and about 15 feet deep. The explosion just must have been massive. And the area surrounding it has also just been blown to bits.

Emphasis added.

[link|http://www.defenselink.mil/photos/Jun1996/960626-N-00000-004.html|Defense Link] story on Dhahran, SA (Khobar Towers) bombing. The picture looks similar to the NK photo, but I would estimate it's only ~ half as deep and covers a much smaller area. The Khobar bomb was a single tanker truck supposedly filled with ammonium nitrate and fuel oil.

The NK exposion was big.

Regards,
Scott.

Post #152,532 by inthane-chan 4/25/04 10:54:03 AM Reply	Correct me if I'm wrong... ...but generally, you don't get a crater unless a)the bomb is honkin' GINORMOUS, or b)the bomb is buried under the earth, or is otherwise propelled into the ground before exploding, I.E., a bomb delivered with a contact fuse. Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain. You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
Post #152,538 by Another Scott 4/25/04 11:19:33 AM Reply	CNN report from early in the Iraq war, and Defense Link. [link\|http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/28/se.02.html\|Here]: KEVIN SITES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Carol. I am actually standing in what we believed to be a 500-pound bomb crater. As you've seen us all week, we've been reporting from the rooftop of the building we rented in Chamchamal. Now we are actually reporting from the Iraqi position on the hillside that coalition forces hit so fiercely just two days ago. We hiked up here today with our videophone gear and we got a chance to look around this command bunker and it is just literally obliterated. I don't have an ISB that reaches far enough down into this crater but just to give you an idea of the size, it's probably about 25 feet in circumference and about 15 feet deep. The explosion just must have been massive. And the area surrounding it has also just been blown to bits. Emphasis added. [link\|http://www.defenselink.mil/photos/Jun1996/960626-N-00000-004.html\|Defense Link] story on Dhahran, SA (Khobar Towers) bombing. The picture looks similar to the NK photo, but I would estimate it's only ~ half as deep and covers a much smaller area. The Khobar bomb was a single tanker truck supposedly filled with ammonium nitrate and fuel oil. The NK exposion was big. Regards, Scott.
Post #152,546 by inthane-chan 4/25/04 12:33:39 PM Reply	Yeah, and those probably have a contact fuse... ...meaning they probably get a foot or two into the earth itself before going boom. Hell, even Hiroshima and Nagasaki didn't leave a crater. Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain. You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

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