1: The MOAB would technically explode as an airburst weapon, albeit from six-feet and not thousands, like a nuclear bomb.
The United States dropped the most powerful nonnuclear bomb in its arsenal on what it said was an ISIS cave complex in remote Afghanistan.
Compared to a nuclear bomb, the MOAB produces a tiny explosion. This is the first time a MOAB has been used in the battlefield, according to the US officials. The MOAB is not the largest bomb ever created. The bomb was dropped by an MC-130 aircraft, operated by Air Force Special Operations Command, according to the military sources. The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB / ˈ m oʊ æ b /, commonly known 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. The US has dropped the "mother of all bombs" - the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the US military - on an area of eastern … The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB / ˈ m oʊ æ b /, commonly known 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. In the 1950s the United States manufactured the T-12, a 43,600-pound (19,800-kg) bomb that could be dropped from the B-36. The MOAB -- Massive Ordnance Air Blast -- is also known as the “Mother Of All Bombs.” It was first tested in 2003, but hadn't been used in combat before Thursday.
Where the Mother of All Bombs dropped A damaged house and burnt trees are seen at the site where a MOAB, or ''mother of all bombs'', struck the Achin district of … On 13 April the US dropped one of its largest non-nuclear bombs on a … The U.S. Air Force has deployed a so-called GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, known as the “Mother of All Bombs,” in Afghanistan, according to reports citing military personnel. The US military dropped America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets in Afghanistan Thursday, the first time this type of weapon has been used in … Trump Drops the Mother of All Bombs on Afghanistan. The GBU-43/B MOAB is a 9,800 kg (21,600 lbs), GPS-guided bomb, the most powerful conventional bomb in the US military's arsenal. The MOAB is also known as the "mother of all bombs." The U.S Forces dropped the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB) on a Daesh tunnel complex in the Achin district of Nangarhar last month.. Media caption The BBC's Auliya Atrafi found fighting continues close to where the MOAB hit. A GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb — nicknamed the "Mother of All Bombs" (MOAB) — was dropped in at 7 p.m. local time Thursday, sources said. The US military dropped America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets in Afghanistan Thursday, the first time this type of weapon has been used in … It was first tested in March 2003, just days before the start of the Iraq War and is an evolutionary follow-up to the 6,800 kg BLU-82 "Daisy Cutters". Known to the military as “the mother of all bombs,” the 22,000-pound GBU-43 has an explosive yield equivalent to more than 11 tons of TNT.
The US hit some ISIS tunnels and caves with a 30 foot long bomb that weighs over 21,000 pounds that was dropped from a C-130.The Massive Ordnance Air Burst weapon often called “MOAB… A MOAB is a 21,600-pound, GPS-guided munition that is America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb. NSFW KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — The U.S. Air Force dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat on Afghanistan yesterday. The potential damage from the twenty-two-thousand-pound bomb was so vast that the Pentagon ordered a …
The smallest known nuclear bomb -- the Davy Crockett fission bomb -- has a 10-ton yield.