Gbu Quotes

The FAC talked them onto an enemy mortar position—which the F-15Es promptly silenced with a GBU-12.

The following day, another Strike Eagle was fired upon by an Iraqi air defense gun. The F-15E quickly returned the favor by dropping a 500-pound GBU-12 bomb.

Here’s how weapons experts described the impact of the GBU-31, which Israel used in “several” of the air strikes investigated by the Report: The explosion creates a shock wave exerting thousands of pounds of pressure per square inch [psi]. By comparison, a shock wave of 12 psi will knock a person down; and the injury threshold is 15 pounds psi. The pressure from the explosion of a device such as the Mark-84 JDAM82 can rupture lungs, burst sinus cavities and tear off limbs hundreds of feet from the blast site, according to trauma physicians. When it hits, the JDAM generates an 8,500-degree fireball, gouges a 20-foot crater as it displaces 10,000 pounds of dirt and rock and generates enough wind to knock down walls blocks away and hurl metal fragments a mile or more. There is a very great concussive effect. Damage to any human beings in the vicinity would be pretty nasty.83