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GBU-57A B MOP - Wikipedia The GBU-57 series MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator) is a 30,000-pound (13,600 kg)-class precision-guided "bunker buster" bomb developed for the United States Air Force (USAF) [5] At least 20 were built by November 2015 Composed of a BLU-127 bomb body and precision guidance kit, the GBU-57 comes in several variants and BLU-127 weights [6] It is much larger than earlier USAF weapons designed
America’s Most Dangerous Bomb May Have Just Seen its First Combat Use . . . Each B-2 can carry up to 18,000 kilograms of ordinance, and has an intercontinental range allowing it to strike targets globally from bases in Missouri and on Guam The nature of the target of the latest attacks, however, have raised considerable speculation that the bombers were equipped with GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators, which are too
Boeing GBU-57 B MOP - Designation-Systems. Net The result was the GBU-57 B, a GPS-guided very heavy penetration bomb, which was first tested in 2007 Several production contracts were subsequently awarded to Boeing, while Northrop Grumman modified the USAF's B-2A bombers to be able to carry two of the bombs
Why Does the US Air Force Have Only 20 B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers? An additional B-2 prototype was converted to operational status under Clinton, for a total of twenty-one This caused the B-2’s half-billion dollar unit price to surge to $737 million—or $929 million counting spare parts, upgrades and technical support
How does a bunker-buster bomb work? A closer look at the GBU-57 Only U S -made B-2 Spirit stealth bombers are programmed to carry the GBU-57s, which weigh more than 30,000 pounds Each B-2 based at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri can hold two of the bombs
B-2 Spirit - GlobalSecurity. org Modifications would allow each B-2 to carry 80 500-pound GBU-38 JDAMs The B-2 can also carry eight of the massive 5,000-pound GBU-37 bunker-buster bombs, and was intended to carry a
B-2s equipped with 14,000kg bomb enable stealthy destruction . . . - Citadel The US Air Force can arm its B-2 Spirit stealth bomber with a formidable, 14,000kg "bunker buster" bomb, a potent non-nuclear option that can neutralize deeply buried underground facilities The B-2 bomber, renowned for its stealth technology, is capable of carrying up to two GBU-57A B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bunker busters
Meet the GBU-57 MOP, the huge bomb weighing almost 14 tons from the B-2 . . . The GBU-57 weighs almost four tons more than the GBU-43 B Massive Ordnance Air Blast – known by the nickname “Mother of All Bombs” – and the B-2 can carry two at once, one in each bay of armament, totaling 60 pounds of payload See in video below:
Target Lock: B-2 : Weapons In the nuclear role the B-2 can carry up to sixteen of the following weapons: AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missile The Advanced Cruise Missile (left) was built as a stealthy replacement for the AGM-86, but the end of the Cold War caused production to be curtailed, and only 461 were built