The U.S. military dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday just days after a Green Beret was killed fighting ISIS there, a U.S. defense official confirmed to Fox News.
The GBU-43B, a 21,000-pound conventional bomb, was dropped in Nangarhar Province.
The MAOB (Massive Ordinance Air Blast) is also known as the “Mother Of All bombs.” It was first tested in 2003, but hadn’t been used before Thursday.
For comparison, each Tomahawk cruise missile launched at Syria last week was 1,000-pounds each.
The target was ISIS tunnels and personnel in the Achin district of the Nangarhar province.
The military is currently assessing the damage. Gen. John Nicholson, commander of US forces in Afghanistan, signed off on the use of the bomb, according to the sources.
This is the first time a MOAB has been used in the battlefield, according to the US officials. This munition was developed during the Iraq War.
Read at Fox News.
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Go Trump Go
Keep up the good work.
Maybe Mr. Trump can end some 43Ba to Israel for use against Hamas’ tunnels.
What benefit is there to starting a new theater of military operations? Don’t we have enough active adversarial theaters without this newly added engagement?
In other words, isn’t there enough on our plate as it is?
Drain the world swamp.