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04-13-2017, 01:31 PM #1
US drops largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan after Green Beret killed
US drops largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan after Green Beret killed
By Lucas Tomlinson
Published April 13, 2017 FoxNews.com
The U.S. military dropped its 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 on an ISIS tunnel complex in Nangarhar Province.
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The Massive Ordinance Air Blast was first tested in 2003. (DOD)
The MOAB -- Massive Ordinance Air Blast -- is also known as the “Mother Of All bombs.” It was first tested in 2003, but hadn't been used in combat before Thursday.
The MOAB is so massive it had to be dropped out of the back of a U.S. Air Force C-130 cargo plane.
"We kicked it out the back door," one U.S. official told Fox News.
For comparison to the 21,000-pound MOAB, each Tomahawk cruise missile launched at a Syrian military air base last week was 1,000-pounds each.
"As [ISIS'] losses have mounted, they are using IEDs, bunkers and tunnels to thicken their defense," 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.
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