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Bookmark or Share- The ‘Daisy Cutter’: A Jungle-Evaporating Bomb That Explodes like a NukeOn March 23, 1970, a United States Air Force C-130 was dispatched over the jungles of Laos carrying an unusual payload. Securely fastened to a pallet inside the aircraft’s cargo compartment was an enormous, 15,000-pound bomb.
- Bomb Live Unit (BLU-82/B) - National Museum of the USAFAs the supply of M121 bombs dwindled, the USAF developed the Bomb Live Unit-82/B (BLU-82/B) as a replacement. Weighing a total of 15,000 pounds, the BLU-82/B was essentially a large thin-walled tank (1/4-inch steel plate) filled with a 12,600-pound explosive "slurry" mixture.
- BLU-82 - WikipediaThe BLU-82B/C-130 weapon system, known under program "Commando Vault" and nicknamed "Daisy Cutter" in Vietnam for its ability to flatten a section of forest into a helicopter landing zone, was an American 15,000-pound (6,800 kg) conventional bomb, delivered from either a C-130 or MC-130 transport aircraft or a CH-54 Tarhe heavy-lift helicopter ...
- BLU-82/B "Daisy Cutter" - GlobalSecurity.orgNicknamed "Big Blue [BLU] 82," the weapon is frequently and incorrectly referred to as "Daisy Cutter," a term which more properly applies to the fuze assembly for above-ground bursts.
- BLU-82 | Military Wiki | FandomThe BLU-82B/C-130 weapon system, known under program "Commando Vault" and nicknamed "daisy cutter" in Vietnam and in Afghanistan for its ability to flatten a forest into a helicopter landing zone, is a 15,000 pound (6,800 kg) conventional bomb, delivered from either a C-130 or an MC-130...
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