40x more powerful than the daisy cutter. Able to disentigrate tall buildings in a single blast. Faster than well, it's only as fast as gravity allows but it makes up for it.
Mother Of All Bombs, tested today & videotaped to show Iraqi military what's coming.
Mother Of All Bombs, tested today & videotaped to show Iraqi military what's coming.
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force said it dropped a 21,000-pound MOAB bomb on a range in northwest Florida on Tuesday in a successful first live test of a powerful new weapon.
The acronym stands for "Massive Ordnance Air Burst" but military officials have nicknamed it the "Mother Of All Bombs."
The power of the 10.5-ton MOAB bomb falls far short of that generated by nuclear weapons, however. The nuclear bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945, generated 15 kilotons of energy.