IRAN has again threatened to ramp up enrichment of its near-weapons-grade uranium stockpile just days after being bombed by ...

The 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator is considered by analysts to be the best shot at getting through to targets ...

A 15-ton “bunker buster” bomb was likely needed to destroy the last untouched nuclear facility in Iran, and only the US had one.

Donald Trump has overseen nearly as many air strikes in the first five months of his second term as Joe Biden launched in his ...

Bunker buster bombs are not battlefield munitions. They serve a very specific purpose, with potential returns far outpacing the monetary cost.

Explore the history of long-range strategic bombing-from WWI Zeppelins to the B-2's 2025 strike on Iran-highlighting key ...

American military engineers designed the GBU-57/B bomb to devastate deeply buried bunkers without radioactive fallout. It’s the only nonnuclear weapon that can reach Iran’s hardest target ...

The Massive Ordnance Penetrator Bomb Israel Wants to Destroy Iran’s Fordo Nuclear Facility American military engineers designed the GBU-57/B bomb to devastate deeply buried bunkers without ...

Seven B-2 stealth aircraft dropped a total of 14 GBU-57 bunker-buster bombs on Iranian nuclear sites last weekend.

Airmen look at a GBU-57, or Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb, at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri in 2023. Photo / Whiteman Air Force Base, US Air Force In the event that the United States ...

This bomb, the GBU-57, is better known as a “bunker buster” or the Massive Ordnance Penetrator. Why is the MOP the right tool for the job? It’s in the name.