The bomb’s technical name is GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb. It became known in military circles as the “mother of all bombs” because of its size and power.

The B83, a bomb that uses the fission process, releases a blast equivalent to 1,200,000 tons of TNT, making it 80 times more powerful than Little Boy and about 109,000 times stronger than the MOAB ...

The bomb, in its first combat use, was dropped on an ISIS tunnel complex in Nangahar province. MOAB is designed for such a situation—it explodes in the air, which creates air pressure that can ...

The bomb is one of the largest in the U.S. arsenal. — -- The U.S. military on Thursday dropped an MOAB, an approximately 22,000-pound bomb nicknamed the "mother of all bombs," on ISIS forces ...

The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) is 30 feet long, weighs 21,600 pounds and is around 40% more powerful than its predecessor.

The United States military dropped a 21,600-pound GBU-43/B bomb, nicknamed MOAB, in Afghanistan at 7:32 p.m. local time on Thursday. The GPS-guided Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb — aka the ...

The Massive Ordnance Air Burst Bomb (MOAB), known more colloquially as the “mother of all bombs” is the most powerful conventional bomb in the U.S. arsenal.

The weapon from which it evolved, the BLU-82 (Bomb Live Unit-82), was about half MOAB's size and was an unguided, or dumb, bomb. The MOAB was developed and built at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida ...

The United States has just dropped the MOAB, its biggest non-nuclear bomb, in combat. On April 13, the Air Force announced that it dropped the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, also known as ...

The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) is 30 feet long, weighs 21,600 pounds and is around 40% more powerful than its predecessor.

The U.S. on Thursday dropped the most powerful conventional bomb in its arsenal on Nangarhar, Afghanistan. The bomb, known in military ranks as “MOAB,” or the “mother of all bombs,” was ...

The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) is 30 feet long, weighs 21,600 pounds and is around 40% more powerful than its predecessor.