While by number of casualties that may be correct a single military grade bomb can be something as small as a claymore on the onehand to as big as a MOAB which is designed to be the size of explosive as a small nuke without the nuclear fallout.
Was it targeting a civilian on densely populated area or was it targetted at a military structure with bunkers and lower density when out in the open during an attack? If it was more the former case it would be closer to the early death toll of Russian missiles striking apartment complexes in Ukraine but with greater destruction. A MOAB has a destructive capacity of approximately 18k lbs of TNT and is usually used in an air burst deployment where as IEDs are more of a small grade explosive used to kill undefended civilians or unsuspecting soldiers or to take out small vehicles.
fair points but we can only go off what did happen not what might
Another thing to consider is that the MOAB is pushed out of a plane on a wooden pallette and uses a parachute and fins to drift to its target - something that would in general reduce its efficacy in hitting targets accurately and would affect lethality too
fair but I’d argue that targeting civilian infrastructure via terrorism is actually more effective in terms of disruption to targeting military targets.
There’s quite a bit of difference between an IED in a bucket and a bomb from a military aircraft.
Really? Because the IRA detonated 1 ton of fertiliser in one bombing, causing one and a half billion in damage.
how would you charactize the difference?
Military hardware causes way more destruction.
You are confusing bombs for air strikes.Air dropped bombs account for 2% of war casualties 2015-2024, IEDs 21%, air strikes 45%.
The average deaths from any explosive ordinance is roughly 20 per “event” which may include multiple detonations and mixed ordinance.
While by number of casualties that may be correct a single military grade bomb can be something as small as a claymore on the onehand to as big as a MOAB which is designed to be the size of explosive as a small nuke without the nuclear fallout.
the moab in 2017 killed 97 people. Not drastically far from ~20
Was it targeting a civilian on densely populated area or was it targetted at a military structure with bunkers and lower density when out in the open during an attack? If it was more the former case it would be closer to the early death toll of Russian missiles striking apartment complexes in Ukraine but with greater destruction. A MOAB has a destructive capacity of approximately 18k lbs of TNT and is usually used in an air burst deployment where as IEDs are more of a small grade explosive used to kill undefended civilians or unsuspecting soldiers or to take out small vehicles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43%2FB_MOAB?wprov=sfla1
fair points but we can only go off what did happen not what might
Another thing to consider is that the MOAB is pushed out of a plane on a wooden pallette and uses a parachute and fins to drift to its target - something that would in general reduce its efficacy in hitting targets accurately and would affect lethality too
Casualties aren’t the only factor here.
fair but I’d argue that targeting civilian infrastructure via terrorism is actually more effective in terms of disruption to targeting military targets.
But the post is about dropping bombs on civilian infrastructure, not military targets.
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