ISIS turned out to be Trump’s next target after Syria. ISIS tunnels and caves were blown to pieces by the Mother of All Bombs dropped today. This is the largest bomb the U.S. has that isn’t nuclear. The weight of this bomb is equal to that of 21 Tomahawk missiles. This, unlike the Syrian strike doesn’t annoy me. If you are targeting ISIS, using the Mother of all Bombs, then I have zero problem with it.
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The GBU-43B, a 21,000-pound conventional bomb, was dropped on an ISIS tunnel complex in Nangarhar Province.
The Massive Ordinance Air Blast was first tested in 2003. (DOD)
The MOAB — Massive Ordinance Air Blast — is also known as the “Mother Of All bombs.” It was first tested in 2003, but hadn’t been used in combat before Thursday.The MOAB is so massive it had to be dropped out of the back of a U.S. Air Force C-130 cargo plane.
“We kicked it out the back door,” one U.S. official told Fox News.
For comparison to the 21,000-pound MOAB, each Tomahawk cruise missile launched at a Syrian military air base last week was 1,000-pounds each.