The GBU-76/B could incorporate other advanced or novel features. The Air Force has raised the possibility of a powered design ...

Penetrating concrete bunkers or underground facilities is no easy task for any modern military. As such, worldwide governments hide their most valuable secrets, such as their nuclear arsenals, below ...

A 15-ton “bunker buster” bomb was likely needed to destroy the last untouched nuclear facility in Iran, and only the US had one. Such a powerful weapon — the largest non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal ...

The goal is to go beyond the traditional brute-force approach of giant bombs and instead manipulate shock waves to destroy targets.

A Boeing GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator in testing. Credit: Defense Department For the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the U.S. Air Force, devoting the time and money to build an ...

The United States Air Force has taken an important step in the development of its next bunker-buster bomb by confirming the ...

A B-2 drops a GBU-57 MOP. Credit: Naeblys / Alamy Stock Photo An accurate assessment of the performance of the Boeing GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) in its combat debut in Iran could take ...

Details about the future NGP are limited, but current speculation suggests it could be roughly similar in size to the 30,000-pound “Massive Ordnance Penetrator.” The United States Air Force used its ...