Boeing Massive ordinance Pentrator

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The Pentagon is trying to speed up the deployment of an ultra-large bunker-busting bomb, which would constitute the largest non-nuclear bomb the U.S. has ever used. The Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, is a 30,000-pound bomb that would dive deeper than any previous bomb, and could be strapped to B-2 or B-52 bombers by July of 2010.

GBU-24: This GBU-24 bunker buster is tiny in comparison to the new MOP
The MOP is 20 feet long and can penetrate bunkers up to 200 feet before exploding. At 15 tons, the MOP is a third heavier than the previous "mother of all bombs", the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, which was only 10.5 tons. The MOP also packs a whopping 5,300 lbs of explosives, which is 10 times the amount its predecessor bunker-buster, the BLU-109, carried. Basically, it's massive.

The push for accelerated deployment is due to the increased perceived nuclear threats from Iran and North Korea. It's believed that many of their nuclear programs could be in development underground, below levels of current bunker-busting bombs' range. The Pentagon intends the rapid deployment to send a message that the United States is tweaking strategies to address new threats. And nothing is more American than advertising the sheer size and tonnage of the bombs hanging below our jets.


The Massive Ordnance Penetrator Will Be the Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb Ever | Popular Science

 

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[subanday]

Huge Bomb, and better looking too....

 

[LeGenD]

MOP loaded:

Comparison with other penetrators:

Source: MOPping Up: The USA’s 30,000 Pound Bomb

This bomb is more powerful than MOAB.

 

[Conqueror]

What bomb will US use after it offends 72,903,921 (72 Millions) of Iranians in Iran and global diaspora of few millions as well? Also what if it was dropped on the "faked installation".. will USA or beloved Israel be ready to receive the "Blow-Back" which could well be an actual Nuclear Attack?

You want to know what Iranians are like.. study HizbAllah.

 

[TruthSeeker]

Boeing’s 30,000-Pound Bunker-Buster Improved, U.S. Says

By Tony Capaccio - Jan 14, 2013 1:32 PM ET

Efforts to improve the performance of the U.S.’s heaviest “bunker-buster” bomb have succeeded, according to the Pentagon’s testing chief.

Tests of the 30,000-pound (13,600-kilogram) Massive Ordnance Penetrator made by Boeing Co. (BA) demonstrated the redesigned weapon “is capable of effectively prosecuting selected hardened, deeply buried targets,” Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon’s director of operational testing, said in a report to Congress.

Pentagon officials have said the bomb could be used if the U.S. decides to attack Iran’s nuclear program, with its deeply buried and hardened Fordo uranium enrichment facility that holds a stockpile of enriched uranium. While Gilmore didn’t mention any specific uses for the bomb, he said it is intended to hit targets “requiring significant penetration” that are located in “well-protected facilities.”

The testing assessment is the first public discussion of the bomb’s capabilities since early last year, when the Pentagon disclosed a need to improve it.

Testing of modifications involved five bomb drops from B-2 stealth bombers at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico from June to October and two ground tests, according to Gilmore’s annual report on Pentagon testing, which he sent to Congress on Jan. 11.

The bomb is six times bigger than the 5,000-pound bunker- buster that the U.S. Air Force and the Israeli Air Force have in their arsenals to attack deeply buried nuclear, biological or chemical sites.


‘Hard Target’

The move to improve the bomb was made shortly after the Air Force took the first delivery in September 2011. The action may have been a response to Iran’s announcement on Jan. 9, 2012, that it would begin uranium enrichment at the Fordo facility near Qom that’s tunneled into mountains, said Kenneth Katzman, a Middle East military analyst for the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service in Washington.

“This is a very hard target, and the international community believes that if Iran were to attempt a nuclear breakout, it would be conducted at this site,” Katzman said last year.

The Pentagon won congressional approval in February 2012 to shift $81.6 million in funds to improve the bunker-buster.
The Pentagon request to upgrade the bomb was submitted 11 days after the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed the enrichment activity. The location at Qom is 90 meters (295 feet) under rock, according to David Albright, founder and president of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington.

Northrop Grumman Corp.’s B-2 stealth bomber is the only aircraft capable of carrying the weapon.

Tail-Fin, Fuse

Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale said in a Jan. 20, 2012, request to Congress that the money was needed to “fix issues identified in testing, including tail-fin modifications and integrating a second fuse, enhance weapon capabilities, build test targets and conduct live weapon testing. The request funds the immediate requirement to support the desired upgrade schedule.”
The 20.5-foot-long bomb carries more than 5,300 pounds of explosives and is guided by Global Positioning System satellites, according to a description on the website of the Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

The bomb has a hardened-steel casing and can reach targets as far as 200 feet underground before exploding, according to a December 2007 statement by the Air Force News Service.

Boeing

Heavier Bunker-Buster Bomb Ready for Combat, General Says

By Tony Capaccio - Feb 6, 2013 11:28 AM ET

Crews for U.S. Air Force B-2 stealth bombers have been trained to drop the Pentagon’s 30,000-pound “bunker-buster” bomb, making it ready for combat, according to the commander of the service’s long-range strike command.
“We’re qualified” for using the weapon on the B-2 “and we have sufficient inventory to meet requirements,” Lieutenant General James Kowalski, head of the Air Force Global Strike Command, said today at a breakfast meeting with reporters in Washington.

Heavier Bunker-Buster Bomb Ready for Combat, General Says - Bloomberg

 

[acid rain]

I have a question, can a foreign attack on a nuclear facility be construed as a nuclear attack on that country owing to a possible nuclear fallout due to breach or damage? if YES then does it release countries with NFU's and gives them a right to strike back with a nuclear attack?

 

[Thorough Pro]

YES! YES! YES!

I have a question, can a foreign attack on a nuclear facility be construed as a nuclear attack on that country owing to a possible nuclear fallout due to breach or damage? if YES then does it release countries with NFU's and gives them a right to strike back with a nuclear attack?

 

[muslim282]

I have a question, can a foreign attack on a nuclear facility be construed as a nuclear attack on that country owing to a possible nuclear fallout due to breach or damage? if YES then does it release countries with NFU's and gives them a right to strike back with a nuclear attack?

Very well put.
Interesting scenario. Not that l want to see it happen.
Any form of fallout will affect all humanity.