The GBU-57 MOP is the world’s most powerful non-nuclear aerial munition, packing 5,342 pounds of lethal high-explosive inside its 30,000-pound bulk. The bomb is so heavy that only the B-2 and the B-52 ...

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The US military is providing new details about its decade-long effort to develop the massive bunker-busting bombs used in recent strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities. That raid saw seven ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last year, the U.S. government was able to reverse engineer a critical subcomponent for the 30,000-pound GBU-57/B Massive Ordnance ...

The 30,000-pound MOP bombs likely did not achieve the overwhelming success that the Trump team is claiming. Now there aren’t enough of them to try again. America has a 30,000-pound bomb known as the ...

U.S. Air Force acquisition documents show that Boeing is being contracted to replenish the inventory of GBU-57’s expended during Operation Midnight Hammer. The U.S. Air Force is requesting the ...