WASHINGTON – It can level a thick jungle, shake the earth violently and send up a billowy mushroom cloud of hot smoke. At 17 feet long -- about the size of a minivan -- and 5 feet in diameter, the BLU ...

7/21/2008 - DUKE FIELD, Fla. (AFPN) -- Duke Field Airmen from the 711th Special Operations Squadron dropped the last operational Bomb Live Unit-82 from an MC-130E Combat Talon I July 15 at the Utah ...

The tactical utility of the 15,000-pound BLU-82/B "daisy cutter" bomb used in Afghanistan (DAILY, Dec. 13) is relatively limited, officials say. Developed in the late 1960s by Sandia Lab and the Air ...

LAUREL, Md. - The Air Force is gaining interest in a replacement for its dwindling supply of 15,000-pound BLU-82 "daisy cutter" bombs, a senior Air Force armaments official said Oct. 15. An already ...

So, it has come to this: the US lobbing down BLU-82 "daisy cutter" bombs on Afghanistan. They used these vile bombs, reportedly "the largest conventional weapon in the world", in Vietnam and during ...