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Legend2440 • today at 4:36 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

We're talking about bunker-busters - the MOAB is not a bunker buster. It's an airburst weapon designed to clear out large open spaces, and isn't effective against hardened bunkers.

No reasonable amount of quadcopters could match a bunker-buster. Surface explosions are not very effective against buried targets.

The weight and density of the bunker-buster is extremely important to its operation. When dropped from a high altitude, it breaks into the bunker with sheer kinetic force, and then explodes once inside.


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dylan604 • today at 5:01 PM

Yeah, I'm not a military expert and confused the ordinance nick names. To be sure, the kinetic force is definitely something that cannot be recreated with drone swarm attacks.