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The MOAB is the most powerful conventional bomb ever used in combat as measured by the weight of its explosive material. [28] [29] The explosive yield is comparable to that of the smallest tactical nuclear weapons, such as the Cold War-era American M-388 projectile fired by the portable Davy Crockett recoilless gun.
Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power (ATBIP), [a] nicknamed "Father of All Bombs" (FOAB; Russian: "Папа всех бомб", Пвб[b]), is a Russian-designed, bomber -delivered thermobaric weapon. This weapon was claimed to be the most powerful conventional (non- nuclear) weapon in the world, more powerful than GBU-43/B Massive ...
On 13 April 2017, the United States conducted an airstrike in Achin District, [3] located in the Nangarhar Province of eastern Afghanistan, near the border with Pakistan. [4] The airstrike was carried out using the largest non- nuclear bomb in the United States' arsenal, the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB), with the goal of ...
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The most powerful non-nuclear weapons ever designed are the United States' MOAB (standing for Massive Ordnance Air Blast, tested in 2003 and used on 13 April 2017, in Achin District, Afghanistan) and the Russian "Father of All Bombs" (tested in 2007).
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] It is substantially larger than the deepest-penetrating bunker busters previously available, the 5,000-pound (2,300 kg) GBU-28 and GBU-37. It is designed to accomplish a difficult ...
The Moab uranium mill tailings pile is a uranium mill waste pond situated alongside the Colorado River, currently under the control of the U.S. Department of Energy. Locals refer to it as the Moab Tailings Pile. In 1952 U.S. geologist Charles Steen found the largest uranium deposit in the United States near Moab, Utah.
A thermobaric weapon, also called an aerosol bomb, or a vacuum bomb, [1] is a type of explosive munition that works by dispersing an aerosol cloud of gas, liquid or powdered explosive. [2][3] The fuel is usually a single compound, rather than a mixture of multiple molecules. [4] Many types of thermobaric weapons can be fitted to hand-held ...