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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[uwmbigb]

great fucking use of my taxes...

[streetmuggedbypolice]

I was going to say drop one on the rats in Washington but you're not allow to say that.

[durhamdf]

@2012ANONYMOUSA Drones are already flying over US, I live about 10 miles from a pradator drone flight facility. THey use them to patrol the border with Mexico

[ironkaiserholtz13]

What is everyone complaining about? America needs this weapon if we are to have any chance of punching through the bunkers of Iran if disarming Iran and castrating their offensive capability is to be made possible. They've had their fun for long enough. It's time for SOMEBODY to take out the trash, even if we must punch through hundreds of feet of concrete to do it.

[Zhihveli]

Amazing thinking. 50 million homeless people in USA and they are all lazy? Why is it that US have so much lazy people? Let's spend our money on bombs, that so smarty smart smart.

[Jospehporta]

@Zhihveli Buddy if there is a market for houses then they'll be built. Dumb dumbs like you just seem to ant to throw money away. Homeless people should get a fucking job.

[vooniecashm]

wat would u rather a few homeless people or for iran to nuke us all and we are all dead (btw im not american)

[2012ANONYMOUSA]

@proaudiohd Agreed!!!

[2012ANONYMOUSA]

You gotta wonder if this is where some of the trillions of $ went! Anyone want to comment?

They are ready to drop these, its on yahoo news! Oh and I hear the drones are going to be flying above us as soon as this spring.. This place we call earth is going to be nuclear waste everywhere!

[Zhihveli]

Wow, with all the homeless people we could have made a lot of houses and employ construction workers, get more jobs for 350 million bucks. Instead we got 20 big bombs. Great thinking!

[dbkuhns]

$350M per MOP is a deal compared to the long term costs of dealing with a nuclear armed IRAN.

What is uwmbigb complainnig about. I'm sure less than one penny of his tax dollars ever made there way towards this project.