[Pistolshot]

The carriage in the B-2 has to be modified to hold the MOP correctly. It's not like you just load 15 tons of one bomb and make it work. It will change the flight characteristics, and make the B-2 more of a pig to fly.

There is more to this story. But the jist is pretty clear.....MOP is ready.

This bomb is SAT guided and uses it's weight and kinetic energy to penetrate, the explosives do the rest when it reaches the proper depth. Call it....'dial-a-floor'.

Since the nuke tipped BB was made inoperable, a replacement for the explosive had to be put in place. One that can create the same overpressure to collapes floors below it.

[Jacquerie]

I am confident, but not certain of course that the B-2 is outfitted to carry over 30 Mk-83 general purpose 1,000 lbs dumb bombs. If I am correct, then the weight is not an issue.

In WWII the Brits/Americans and Germans were in measure/countermeasure contests involving radar and radar detectors on submarines whose period was measured in months if not weeks.

I cringe at the time it takes to develop and stand up weapons these days.

[theBuckwheat]

I sounds like the war-planners think we have enough time that we can modify the B2 to carry the MOP rather than to modify the MOP to fly in the exiting B2.