The Missile at the Pentagon? What else could it be?

Boeing Conducts Successful JASSM Warhead Test

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 09, 1998 -- The warhead of the Boeing Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) successfully penetrated a thick, reinforced concrete target with no adverse affect on the casing or the fuze in a recent sled test.

"This successful test is significant in demonstrating the effectiveness of our low-cost, low-risk warhead design for JASSM," said Jim Gates, vice president and program manager for JASSM in the Boeing Phantom Works.

The sled test was conducted Jan. 24 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., using an inert warhead and an instrumented fuze. The purpose was to collect full-scale test data to validate the models used for predicting the performance of the warhead casing and fuze.

"The warhead performed as predicted and met all expectations," said Elmer Lueker, the JASSM payload integrated product team leader in Phantom Works. "After experiencing shock loads as high as 12,000 Gs, there was no deformation of the casing and the fuze timing delay performed to the millisecond." The warhead struck the thick, reinforced concrete target, penetrated through it and traveled another half mile down range. The clean exit hole it left indicates that it had maintained the desired straight trajectory while traversing the thick target.

According to Lueker, the casing sustained nothing more than scratches on its nose, and the aft closure and fuze assemblies were intact. "This is a real tribute to the quality of the design and analysis tools we've developed for this program," he said.

The warhead is approximately 60 inches long, 12 inches in diameter, and 900 pounds in weight (which includes over 200 pounds of explosive). It uses a fuze that has already been qualified on another program.

A live warhead test also is planned at Eglin Air Force Base in the near future. In addition to these tests, the warhead has already successfully passed a "fast cookoff" requirement for munitions testing. This test exposed a live warhead to a jet fuel fire environment over a long period of time to ensure it will not explode.

http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/1998/news_release_980209n.htm

The Boeing JASSM program is being conducted in the Phantom Works in St. Louis, Mo. The program is on schedule and on budget and offers an affordable, effective, low-risk weapon system solution that meets all requirements and provides other significant operational benefits as well.


BLU-113 5000lb "Bunker Buster" Bomb

The BLU-113 is a penetrating munition that uses a modified Army artillery tube as the bomb body. They are fitted with GBU-27 LGB kits, 14.5 inches in diameter and almost 19 feet long. The BLU-113 is a 4,444 pound penetrator. The case is made from HP9420 alloy steel to provide target penetration capabilities. The bomb body is loaded with 670 lbs of 80/20 tritonal explosives and utilizes a single fuze.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/blu-113.htm

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[thevikingwarrior11]

Until we actually have a full released coverage of the actual "missile" or what-have-you hitting the pentagon, you still can't compare anything yet. I'm pretty sure a lot of the guys in charge are probably trolling the conspiracy theorists, making their heads spin right now... Wait until the actual video gets released.

[marcblack1]

EVEN A PLANE AS BIG AS WAS DESCRIBED WOULD LEAVE BEHIND AT EMPACT MORE DEBRIE THAN A GOLFBALL., NO MORE THAN ! OR TWO CAMERA's.. COME ON LOSER's.... INSIDE JOB!!!! EVER SINCE THE 1970's HYGACKed planes and all, LOCKERBEY.... WHO HAS NOT SEEN AN AIRPLANE DESASTER FOOTAGE IN THE NEWS... DOES THIS NOT LOOK RIGHT TO ANYONE WITH HALF A BRAIN???

[megadarkassassinn]

maybe the aircraft was a theromatic war head 0.0