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'Mother of All Bombs': US Forces Drop Massive Non-Nuclear Bomb in Afghanistan
Foxnews ^
| 4/13/17
| FOX News
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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bomb; gbu43b; isis; military; moab; oef; pakistan; trump; trump45; trumpgwot
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Couldn't stand the CNN link.
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posted on
04/13/2017 10:00:50 AM PDT
by
johnk
To: johnk
Testing it for use in Iran and Syria.
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posted on
04/13/2017 10:01:35 AM PDT
by
kabar
To: johnk
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posted on
04/13/2017 10:01:53 AM PDT
by
exnavy
To: johnk
Wow. Would have loved to have seen that.
From very far off.
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posted on
04/13/2017 10:02:54 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' Fake News unregulated SuperPAC.)
To: johnk
It’s been around since 2003? Seems to me then that the practical thing to do was to use it and stop paying to store it.
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posted on
04/13/2017 10:03:17 AM PDT
by
MeganC
(Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
To: exnavy
To: null and void; KC_Lion; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; TWhiteBear; WildHighlander57; Velveeta; Sal; ...
MOAB for the ARABS!!
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posted on
04/13/2017 10:03:23 AM PDT
by
GregNH
(If you can't fight, please find a good place to hide!)
To: johnk
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posted on
04/13/2017 10:03:53 AM PDT
by
SW6906
(6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
To: johnk
Works for me and my tag line. I used to say ‘NUKE ALL’ but I’ve mellowed with age.
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posted on
04/13/2017 10:04:15 AM PDT
by
USS Alaska
(Kill all mooselimb, terrorist savages, with extreme prejudice! Deus Vult!)
To: johnk
My guess is a test drop to assess blast effectiveness against mountainous tunnel complexes.
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posted on
04/13/2017 10:04:44 AM PDT
by
fso301
To: kabar
"Testing it for use in Iran and Syria."And to send the "FLB in NK" a message as well. No one notices the quiet mop-up of ISIS that has been going on since Mad-Dog has been at the helm.
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posted on
04/13/2017 10:04:45 AM PDT
by
taildragger
(Do you hear the people singing? The Song of Angry Men!....)
To: johnk
WOOHOO!!! GO. PRESIDENT TRUMP. GO!!! MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
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posted on
04/13/2017 10:04:54 AM PDT
by
HarleyLady27
('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
To: johnk
They’ve had this thing since 2003 and never used it. What a weird coincidence that they would decide to use it right about now. Must be some really important mud huts because I’m sure it’s not related to any ongoing negotiations.
To: taildragger
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posted on
04/13/2017 10:06:11 AM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(I do declayah. We have a new Guvnah.)
To: johnk
Hopefully we have the troops near the tunnel entrances/exits - to get the rats that managed to survive to crawl out of their holes.
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posted on
04/13/2017 10:06:17 AM PDT
by
drpix
To: kabar
Testing it for use in Iran and Syria North Korea!
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posted on
04/13/2017 10:07:03 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Don't bother reading fake news about Trump on FR. Trump will tweet or email us his real news!)
To: Col Frank Slade
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posted on
04/13/2017 10:07:14 AM PDT
by
exnavy
To: johnk
Maybe that's what I heard last night instead of thunder! :) Ka-💣 BOOM! BTW...the Pentagon called it the FATHER of all bombs. :) --per Rush--
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posted on
04/13/2017 10:07:16 AM PDT
by
luvie
(Be still and know that I Am GOD.....Psalm 46:10)
To: johnk
I thought ISIS was more of a ME problem, but they drop this bomb in Afghanistan. Another message to fat boy, maybe?
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posted on
04/13/2017 10:08:22 AM PDT
by
virgil
(The evil that men do lives after them.)
To: drpix
I don’t think any survivors are crawling out of the holes.
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posted on
04/13/2017 10:08:54 AM PDT
by
Williams
(Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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