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    The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB, /ˈmoʊæb/, colloquially explained as "mother of all bombs") is a large-yield bomb, developed for the United...
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  • 600 lb (10,300 kg) GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb (MOAB) in 2003, and the 30,000 lb (14,000 kg) GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP). The Mark...
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    GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is a precision-guided, 30,000-pound (14,000 kg) "bunker buster" bomb used by the United States Air Force. The...
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    BLU-82 (category Aerial bombs of the United States)
    and more currently, the Russian Air Force FOAB and USAF GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, and the Massive Ordnance Penetrator. The BLU-82 uses ammonium...
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    world, more powerful than GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, which is often unofficially called "Mother of All Bombs" or MOAB. FOAB was successfully field-tested...
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  • laydown bomb. Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb (USA) Matra Durandal (France) Flechette (WWI) Ranken dart (World War I British) Blockbuster bomb (World War...
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    the blast yield of the GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb is 0.011 kt, and that of the Oklahoma City bombing, using a truck-based fertilizer bomb, was...
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    Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb which was deployed during the 2003 invasion of Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom and was the largest non-nuclear air-delivered...
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  • Issue Procedure MLR – Management Level Review MOAB – Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb/Mother Of All Bombs MOOTW – Military Operations Other than War MOS –...
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    named this particular ordnance the "Father of All Bombs" in response to the American-developed Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb, which has the backronym...
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    (officially Massive Ordnance Air Blast, or more commonly known as the "Mother of All Bombs"). Below is a list of five different types of bombs based on the...
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    Also on display is the GBU-43 MOAB, Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, or by its nickname, "Mother of All Bombs", the world's largest conventional explosive...
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    live-fire tests of new and exotic weaponry like the Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, or "Mother of all Bombs". Also numbered among the unique weapons tests...
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  • Military Operating Area (USAF Airspace) MOAB – Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, also known as "Mother Of All Bombs". MOAC – Mother of All Coffee (Green Bean...
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    Unexploded ordnance (UXO, sometimes abbreviated as UO) and unexploded bombs (UXBs) are explosive weapons (bombs, shells, grenades, land mines, naval mines...
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    bomb in the U.S. arsenal at the time. The bomb was a 21,000 lb. weapon called the Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb; nicknamed the "Mother Of All Bombs"...
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    German invasion of Poland, the Luftwaffe engaged in massive air raids against Polish cities, bombing civilian infrastructure such as hospitals and targeting...
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    The bombing of the Gaza Strip is an ongoing aerial bombardment campaign on the Gaza Strip by the Israeli Air Force during the Israel–Hamas war. During...
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  • Armor-Piercing, Fin-Stabilizing, Discarding Sabot-Tracer". General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems. Retrieved 23 September 2024. "How to Balance the...
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    or Bomb, Medium Capacity, 12,000 lb was an earthquake bomb developed by the British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis and used by the Royal Air Force...
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    Strategic bombing is a systematically organized and executed military attack from the air which can utilize strategic bombers, long- or medium-range missiles...
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  • This is a list of the types of bombs....
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    W56). A nuclear device no larger than a conventional bomb can devastate an entire city by blast, fire, and radiation. Since they are weapons of mass destruction...
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    atomic bomb while it was suspended in the center of the vessel. With the conventional bombs placed in the bottom of Jumbo, the resulting blast sent fragments...
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    the Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons[vague] of high-explosive bombs and incendiary...
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    230 Straßburg receiver in the ordnance for guidance. The United States Army Air Forces had come up with the Azon guided bomb, converted from a regular 453 kg...
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    civilians. Winston Churchill was similarly enthusiastic to bomb Germany. This gave both air forces the political support to deal, at this stage, with criticism...
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  • carried out using the largest non-nuclear bomb in the United States' arsenal, the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB), with the goal of destroying tunnel...
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    Bomber (redirect from Bombing plane)
    aircraft that utilizes air-to-ground weaponry to drop bombs, launch torpedoes, or deploy air-launched cruise missiles. Bombs were first dropped from...
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    that the crater at the blast site required kinetic energy inconsistent with a Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) aerial bomb, and was also inconsistent...
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