Watch the Air Force Test the ‘Mother of All Bombs’
Posted By: Brendan McGarry April 13, 2017
On the same day the U.S. military dropped its most powerful non-nuclear bomb against Islamic State militants in Afghanistan, it released video of the Air Force testing so-called “mother of all bombs.”
The video dates to 2003, when the service evaluated the 21,000-pounds GBU-34 Massive Ordnance Air Blast, or MOAB, at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.
As my colleague Oriana Pawlyk reported over at Military.com, the bomb has the highest yield of any conventional ordnance in the U.S. stockpile. The biggest, however, is the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP.
https://www.defensetech.org/2017/04/13/watch-air-force-test-mother-of-all-bombs/
