Posted on 04/13/2017 10:00:50 AM PDT by johnk
U.S. forces have dropped what is known as the "mother of all bombs" in Afghanistan. The device is the largest non-nuclear device in the Air Force arsenal, Fox News' Jennifer Griffin reported. It was dropped in Nangarhar Province, an eastern area near the Pakistan border. It's the first time the 21,000-pound ordnance has been used in combat, said Griffin. The device, developed in 2003 by the U.S. Air Force, is called the M.O.A.B, short for Massive Ordnance Air Blast. It's often referred to as the "mother of all bombs." Watch the report above.
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Bingo! We have a winner.
Lol.
AMERICA IS BACK!
MEN ARE BACK!
AN AMERICAN PATRIOT IS PRESIDENT!
No boots, but American air SUPERIORITY!
We may make it yet, and whip the bed wetting pacifists as well! Can you fathom the deaths we’ve slept through, carefree, under Obama, the boy prez?? The total displacement of Christians was a travesty, but the only way they survived.
Be prepared for the reports of massive civilian casualties breathlessly and gleefully claimed by the Media.
Such statement is speculative until Spec Op's examine the blast site.
Sometimes I razz Air Force personnel.
But at times like this, I raise my glass in appreciation.
You go, Air Force!
A parachute drug the thing out the back of the plane.
I'd imagine it would take some engineering to get it loaded in a standard bomb bay but I'm not sure. Looked pretty long going out the plane.
A parachute drug the thing out the back of the plane.
I'd imagine it would take some engineering to get it loaded in a standard bomb bay but I'm not sure. Looked pretty long going out the plane.
To end ISIS and send a message of deterrence to North Korea, so they don’t nuke your @zz. South Korea is in a state of trembles.
TRUMP is a genius at messaging enemies.
not Arabs, ISIS
More cow bell!!
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Cheaper and perhaps more effective than an arc light raid? My buddy said he was perhaps 15 miles away from one in nam during one and they were rocking and rolling even that far away.
I think this bomb is so big it has to be delivered by a C-130, so imagine how exited those guys are. How often do cargo pilots get to drop a bomb, much less the biggest bomb evah!
I think it’s a) to show off the weapon (not so) subtlely to the Norks and b) hopefully there was a high value target in the area to make it worthwhile.
B-2 can drop it.
Me too. I wonder if it made a “loud” boom.
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