GBU-43/B MOAB - Wikipedia
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.
Mother of all bombs: How powerful is US mega-weapon? - BBC
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.
2017 Nangarhar airstrike - Wikipedia
The airstrike was carried out using the largest non-nuclear bomb in the United States' arsenal, the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB), with the goal of destroying tunnel complexes used by the Islamic State – Khorasan Province (IS-KP).
What Is the "Mother of All Bombs" That the U.S. Just Dropped …
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...
What to Know About the GBU-43/B, ‘Mother of All Bombs’
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 ...
U.S. bombs ISIS targets in Afghanistan with "mother of all bombs…
2017年4月14日 · The U.S. dropped a bomb with an explosive force equal to 11 tons of TNT on a cave complex used by the Afghanistan branch of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Thursday, the Pentagon...
Why America Dropped 'Mother of All Bombs' on ISIS in Afghanistan - NBC News
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.
What you need to know about the 'mother of all bombs' - Defense News
2017年4月13日 · The MOAB" which actually stands for Massive Ordnance Air Blast, is the largest non-nuclear bomb ever dropped in battle. But don’t be fooled. It’s not the biggest one in the arsenal.
“The Mother of All Bombs”: Understanding the Massive …
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.
GBU-43/B "Mother Of All Bombs" - GlobalSecurity.org
2003年3月11日 · 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.