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United States Air Force has now the biggest conventional bomb MOP bunker-busters 2707121.
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States Air Force has now the biggest conventional bomb MOP bunker-busters. |
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The
United States Air Force announced the biggest conventional bomb ever developed
is ready to use. The Pentagon has spent $330 million to develop and deliver
more than 20 of the precision-guided Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP)
bunker-busters, which are designed to blast through up to 200 feet of
concrete. |
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 Mock-up of MOP bomb ( Massive Ordnance Penetrator) at Boeing facilities. |
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Although
there has previously been a bigger nuclear device, the new conventional
rocket is six times the weight of the previous bunker-buster used by the
US Air Force, and carries an explosive payload of 5,300 pounds.
US military chiefs
openly admitted the weapon was built to attack the fortified nuclear
facilities of “rogue states” such as Iran and North Korea.
Although the Pentagon insists that it is not aimed at a specific threat,
unnamed officials within the ministry have repeatedly claimed the bomb
is being tailor-made to disable Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordo,
or at least to intimidate Tehran. |
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