Boeing Delivers Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) 37,000 LB Bombs To The USAF - GBU-57

http://AviationExplorer.com - The Massive Ordnance Penetrator (the Air Force has ordered 20 from Boeing) is nearly five tons heavier than any other bomb in the military's arsenal and is made to pulverize underground targets.

Boeing Co. has delivered the first of the 30,000-pound bombs, each nearly five tons heavier than anything else in the military's arsenal, to the U.S. Air Force to pulverize underground enemy hide-outs.

At a total cost of about $314 million, the military has developed and ordered 20 of the GPS-guided bombs, called Massive Ordnance Penetrators. They are designed to be dropped on targets by the Boeing-made B-52 Stratofortress long-range bomber or Northrop Grumman Corp.'s B-2 stealth bomber.

Packed with more than 5,300 pounds of explosives and more than 20 feet long, the giant bunker-busting bombs were tested at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the site of the first atomic bomb test during World War II.

The weapon's explosive power is 10 times greater than its bunker-buster predecessor, the BLU-109. And it is nearly five tons heavier than the 22,600-pound GBU-43 MOAB surface bomb, sometimes called the "mother of all bombs."

The Massive Ordnance Penetrator is a weapon system designed to accomplish a difficult, complicated mission of reaching and destroying our adversaries' weapons of mass destruction located in well-protected facilities.

The Air Force and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency conducted tests at White Sands, and Boeing delivered the first Massive Ordnance Penetrator this fall. Additional deliveries are expected to be completed by 2013.

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[HeavensGremlin]

Iran is heading for the crematorium, en-masse....

[unvanquishableone]

Iran will burn.

[KhmerD0g]

I have drones of my own. Drones versus drones. May the best drones win. hahahahahahahahaa. biatchh

[exerminator2000]

hey buddy, I've got a tip for ya, check the skies for drones!

[KhmerD0g]

and we will end up bankrupt to the core just like the soviet union. the chinese are owning america and western europe. LOL. while the chinese hoarding oil and other thing we spend and spend money on war.

bankrupt is acceptable to me.

[quarfv]

they kill one for the world to see, we kill 1000 for the world not to see....perfectly acceptable ratio.

[otokonokakseisso]

μπραβο στις ενωμενες πολιτειες αμερικης που με σταθερα βηματα και προβοκατορικες ενεργειες οδηγη την ανθρωποτητα σε ασκοπες και αδικαιολογητες πολεμικες συραξης, οπως κανανε καποτε οι ναζι της γερμανια στην ευρωπη, αλλα οι ενωμενες πολιτειες αμερικης το κανουν με πιο εξυπνο τροπο.και ξανα μπραβο για το νεο αιματοκυλησμα τυπου ιρακ που ετοιμαζουν για το ιραν.παντα τετοια και παντα με συνοδηπορο και συεπικουρο το ισραηλ, τους φονιαδες των παλαιστηνιων.μπραβο και να τους χαιρεστε.

[danahan01]

I wish I could drop one of these on this irritating reporterette!!

[KhmerD0g]

and don't be surprise if they team up with al qaeda and attack america. there was one british soldier got his head chopped off for the world to see. the war will go on and on. payback is a bitch

[jellyfishdave]

It doesn't matter who's right... just who's left.

[UttaraMimamsa]

It'll be so quick that you won't see it anyway...lol