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The GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is a precision-guided, 30,000-pound (14,000 kg) "bunker buster" bomb used by the United States Air Force. [2] The GBU-57 (Guided Bomb Unit-57) is substantially larger than the deepest-penetrating bunker busters previously available, the 5,000-pound (2,300 kg) GBU-28 and GBU-37.
The GBU-28 (Guided Bomb Unit‐28) is a 4,000-pound (1,800 kg) class laser-guided "bunker busting" bomb produced originally by the Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, New York. It was designed, manufactured, and deployed in less than three weeks due to an urgent need during Operation Desert Storm to penetrate hardened Iraqi command centers located ...
The GBU-72 underwent a series of tests at Eglin Air Force Base. [1] [5] These included a number of ground based tests which included detonating the bomb’s warhead within an array of barriers to measure its blast and other effects, and airborne tests between July and October 2021 which included confirming "the weapon could safely release from the aircraft and validate a modified 2,000-pound ...
The bomb can penetrate hardened targets or targets buried deep underground. The first all-weather precision-guided bunker buster, it became operational in 1997. [1] [unreliable source?] [2] It has been replaced on the B-2 by the 5,000-pound GPS-aided/INS-guided GBU-28.
The GBU-27 Paveway III (Guided Bomb Unit) is a laser-guided bomb with bunker buster capabilities, it is a GBU-24 Paveway III (fitted on the warhead of the BLU-109 bomb body) that has been redesigned to be used by the F-117A Nighthawk stealth ground attack aircraft.
The commander of the Azov Regiment said Russia was dropping bombs on the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works plant despite knowing civilians were there.
A BLU-109 aboard a General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon configured as a JDAM F-16I (Israeli Air Force) with BLU-109 forged steel point tip, and a BLU-109 JDAM, 2,000 lb (910 kg) bunker buster penetration bomb. The BLU-109/B is a hardened bunker buster penetration bomb used by the United States Air Force (BLU is an acronym for Bomb Live Unit ...
The global bunker market is projected to grow to $36 billion by 2030. Zerb Mellish for BI. At the end of an unnamed private road in Red River County, on a brisk fall day in 2019, Texas fire ...