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The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, also known as the "Mother of All Bombs", has been dropped in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. It is the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal.
The US military has dropped an enormous bomb in Afghanistan, according to four US military officials with direct knowledge of the mission. A GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, nicknamed MOAB, was dropped at 7 p.m. local time Thursday, the sources said. [...] A MOAB is a 21,600-pound, GPS-guided munition that is America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb.
The bomb was dropped by an MC-130 aircraft, operated by Air Force Special Operations Command, according to the military sources. They said the target was an ISIS tunnel and cave complex as well as personnel in the Achin district of the Nangarhar province.
Gen. John Nicholson, Commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, said in a statement. "This is the right munition to reduce these obstacles and maintain the momentum of our offensive against [ISIS]." The statement said U.S. forces took every precaution to avoid civilian casualties.
Also at Fox News. The bombing came days after the death of a Green Beret in the same province, but a defense official said the bombing was unrelated. Another official had this to say:
The MOAB had to be dropped out of the back of a U.S. Air Force C-130 cargo plane due to its massive size. "We kicked it out the back door," one U.S. official told Fox News.
Update: The Afghan defence ministry says that 36 ISIS fighters were killed by the strike.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Friday April 14 2017, @03:38PM (1 child)
And if they had invested that money into such projects in Afghanistan, maybe it would even have been more effective against the terrorists than this bomb.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday April 14 2017, @11:32PM
The most effective answer to the Islamic question is extermination.
We have offered them everything including refuge from the very hell they have created, and are now turning that refuge into a hell. Indiscriminate bombing of their homelands is the answer.
Somebody posted above, what if we invested the MOAB money in American schools? Well, it is a more sound investment to drop a MOAB on a Muslim school than to donate to a Western school, because Muslims are an invasive species -- and should be dealt-with accordingly.
Let the culling begin!