In April 2017, the United States used the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in its arsenal — the GBU-43B Massive Ordnance Air Blast. The strike targeted ISIS militants who had retreated into fortified ...
Dubbed the "Mother Of All Bombs", the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast hit IS positions in a remote area of eastern Nangarhar province. Dubbed the "Mother Of All Bombs", the GBU-43/B Massive ...
The US Air Force has awarded a contract for the design of a next-generation bunker-buster bomb. The bomb will eventually replace the 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP. The MOP ...
Airmen look at a GBU-57, or the Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb, at Whiteman Air Base in Missouri, 2023. (U.S. Air Force via AP) The U.S. Air Force last week awarded defense firm Applied Research ...
Details about the future NGP are limited, but current speculation suggests it could be roughly similar in size to the 30,000-pound “Massive Ordnance Penetrator.” The United States Air Force used its ...