Ten tons of bomb. A 21.000-pound explosive device called "Massive Ordnance Air Blast", "MOAB", nicknamed the "Mother Of All Bombs".
Though it is not a nuclear weapon, it's a 40% more powerful than the last most destructive non-nuclear bomb, the "Daisy Cutter", used in Afghanistan.
The MOAB is guided by satellite. It spreads a flammable mist over the target and then it ignites it, producing a highly destructive blast. It's said it has also a psycological effect, because the mushroom cloud seems quite much to a nuke's one. The mother of all bombs has been succesfully tested this month, before the war begun... let's hope it will never be used on real targets.
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Though it is not a nuclear weapon, it's a 40% more powerful than the last most destructive non-nuclear bomb, the "Daisy Cutter", used in Afghanistan.
The MOAB is guided by satellite. It spreads a flammable mist over the target and then it ignites it, producing a highly destructive blast. It's said it has also a psycological effect, because the mushroom cloud seems quite much to a nuke's one. The mother of all bombs has been succesfully tested this month, before the war begun... let's hope it will never be used on real targets.
Here it is:
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