Talk:BLU-82

message: This article is full of errors and is basically worthless. As a C-130 crewmember who was involved in the COMMANDO VAULT project when the Blu 82 came out, I am not at all happy with it. To begin with, Blu 82s were not dropped by Army CH-54s. The Army originally used some M-121 10,000-pound TNT bombs that had been developed for use by the B-36 bomber. Test drops of the first Blu 82s in Vietnam were from a C-130 two years later. Army helicopters dropped a few M-121s but their use was cost prohibitive so the mission was given to the Air Force's 463rd Tactical Airlift Wing and C-130s were used. The total weight of the bomb was 15,000 pounds. The weight of the explosive component is irrelevant since the shrapnel from the casing was part of the overall explosive effect. Aerial bombs are always categorized by their actual weight, not the weight of the explosive. SamMcGowan (talk) 04:26, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Full of Errors

message: I am surprised that this was not present before , i added it in popular culture, the game is from 2003 and 2004(expansion), in which I think is the only popular games to fully feature it for purpose use. Xowets (talk) 13:43, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: RTS Game

message: What is the weight of this device.  The photo says 15,000 lb, but it is not in th earticle.  The source of the weight info should be cited. Cafe Nervosa | talk 18:42, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Weight and size is quoted here  in the article, and note that although the factsheet states that the Daisycutter was delivered via the cargo doors of a transport aircraft it does not claim that it was too heavy to be carried on the bomb racks of bombers. The B52 will provide an example: it can carry 60,000 lbs of bombs in various configurations. These include the B41 nuclear bomb, (physically as large as the Daisycutter), and any bomb in the inventory past or present. The claim that the Daisycutter cannot be carried by current bombers needs to be substantiated or removed. Of course thare may have been other reasons why transport aircraft were used, but weight was surely not among the reasons. Brian.Burnell 16:15, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

text: huh??? - Omegatron 03:07, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)
Daises are notoriously easy to cut, whereas the BLU-82 pulverizes small trees. just a bit of humor on the author's part, IMHO.  ArrowmanCoder
"1991 Second Gulf War"? pretty sure it should be 1991 gulf war of 2003 Second Gulf War, not sure which though. say1988 15:36, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
1980s Iran-Iraq War = First Gulf War;  1991 Gulf War (Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait & Coalition liberation) = Second Gulf War;  2003 Gulf War (Coalition invasion to depost Hussein) = Third Gulf War
Hope this helps.  Knave
*Are you really that naive?  Do you have any clue how many wars have happened in or near the Persian Gulf?? Hope this helps. PETN 04:16, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Weight

message: I heard about the daisy cutter today from someone who worked in a chemical research laboratory. He said that the daisy cutter was a weapon that dispersed aerosol napalm  over a large radius, then detonated, and the reason behind the "daisy cutter" nickname had less to do with the "daisies are notoriously easy to cut" rumour and more to do with the daisy-shaped crater or pattern the detonation of the bomb "cuts" into the countryside. I know nothing more, but thought it was interesting, and found some differing information here. Basseq 20:46, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope, what he's describing is a fuel-air explosive of some sort. Straker 13:11, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a link to the USAF Museum fact sheet and removed the disputed tag as i don't see any live dispute here.--agr 13:52, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Something Completely Different 

message: It current says in the lede:
And in the article for the MOAB it says:
So they replaced it with something they apparently don't have many of?  Also, it says only 225 of the Blue-82s were ever constructed, even though they have been used since the Vietnam War which ended in 1975.  So in 33 years they only constructed 225 of them, then replaced them with a new bomb created in 2003 which they only made 15 of other than perhaps some used in testing.  Dream Focus 00:57, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was it really replaced by MOAB? 

message: Im quite sure this was the bomb used at the begining of this flick:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114069/
Anyone else remember it?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.115.146.98 (talk) 22:57, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured in "Outbreak" (1995) 

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