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US to restock 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs after Operation Midnight Hammer
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing a contract worth more than $100 million ...
United States military is moving to replenish its stockpile of the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bunker-buster ...
Much of the world learned of the existence of so-called "bunker busters" when the United States bombed targets in Iran in June 2025. Yet this type of ordnance has actually been around since World War ...
The question of whether the US can destroy the Pickaxe Mountain nuclear facility will partly be an intelligence race of who can outwit whom, matching offensive and defensive capabilities.
Airmen look at a GBU-57, or the Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb, at Whiteman Air Base in Missouri, 2023. (U.S. Air Force via AP) The U.S. Air Force last week awarded defense firm Applied Research ...
Chinese military scientists have proposed a way to counter the US Air Force's famed GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOP) or bunker busters by revealing an alleged flaw with their design. In a ...
Israel's attack on Iran aimed at destroying its nuclear program has raised speculation about whether the U.S. would use one of America's most powerful weapons to make that happen. The Israeli ...
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 ...
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