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Afghanistan: 6 things we know about 'mother of all bombs', MOAB

metronews by metronews
April 13, 2017
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The United States dropped a massive GBU-43 bomb, the largest
non-nuclear bomb it has ever used in combat, in eastern Afghanistan on
Thursday against a series of caves used by Islamic State militants, the
military said.


It was the first time the United States has used this size of bomb
in a conflict. It was dropped from a MC-130 aircraft in the Achin
district of Nangarhar province, close to the border with Pakistan,
Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump said. The acronym MOAB actually stands for
Massive Ordnance Air Burst.

Also known as the “mother of all bombs,” the GBU-43 is a 21,600
pound (9,797 kg) GPS-guided munition and General John Nicholson, the
head of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan, said the bomb was
used against caves and bunkers housing fighters of the Islamic State in
Afghanistan, also known as ISIS-K. “This is the right munition to reduce
these obstacles and maintain the momentum of our offensive against
ISIS-K,” Nicholson said in a statement. It was not immediately clear how
much damage the bomb did.

Here are six quick facts about the bomb:
1) It was first tested in March 2003, just days before the start of the Iraq war.
2) It weighs 21,000 pounds or 9525 kg.
3) It’s 30 feet long and 40.5 inches in diameter.
4) It is a ‘smart bomb’ guided by a satellite and explodes 6 metres above the ground which increases its impact.
5) It’s not the largest bomb, that honour belongs to the T-12a 19,800 kg bomb, also known as the Cloudmaker.
6) Compared to a nuclear bomb, the MOAB has a smaller blast radium
but a nuclear bomb weighs considerably less. The nuclear bomb dropped on
Hiroshima had a yield of 14,500 tonnes of TNT and weighed half the
amount of the MOAB.

Al Weimorts (right), the creator of the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance
Air Blast bomb, and Joseph Fellenz, lead model maker, look over the
prototype before it was painted and tested. (Wikimedia Commons)


 
With inputs from Reuters

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