The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB, / ˈ m oʊ æ b /, colloquially explained as "mother of all bombs") is a large-yield bomb, developed for the United States military by Albert L. Weimorts, Jr. of the Air Force Research Laboratory.

2017年4月13日 · The US military has just dropped its largest conventional (that is non-nuclear) bomb for the first time in combat, on Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar.

2023年8月28日 · The MOAB bomb, officially known as the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, is indeed a force to be reckoned with. Weighing in at 21,000 pounds, it's designed to unleash a devastating explosion, primarily for targeting tunnel complexes and hardened above ground bunkers.

The mother of all bombs, also known as the GBU-43B, was used to strike ISIS in Afghanistan on April 13, 2017. As the MOAB bomb is the largest conventional non-nuclear bomb in the United States’s arsenal, it caused a lot of destruction.

On March 11, 2003, the United States Air Force tested one of the largest conventional bombs ever built. It is called the MOAB -- Massive Ordnance Air Burst. It is a bomb designed to destroy heavily reinforced targets or to shatter ground forces and armor across a large area.

2017年4月14日 · The MOAB was the largest non-nuclear bomb ever dropped by the U.S. military — so big it had to be pushed out of a cargo plane attached to a parachute.

2017年4月14日 · The “Mother of All Bombs,” the GBU-43/B Massive Air Blast, is the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in America’s arsenal, and it was used for the first time in combat on April 13 in ...

2017年4月13日 · The MOAB is a precision-guided munition weighing 21,500 pounds and will be dropped from a C-130 Hercules aircraft for the test. It will be the largest nonnuclear conventional weapon in...

2017年4月15日 · The Massive Ordnance Air Blast Weapon (MOAB, known informally as the “Mother of All Bombs” and formally as the Guided Bomb Unit, or GBU, 43/B) has attracted a great deal of attention since it was dropped on ISIS fighters in eastern Afghanistan on 13 April.

The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb [MOAB] weapon is a 21,000 lbs total weight GPS-guided munition with fins and inertial gyro for pitch and roll control.