The Massive Ordnance Penetrator Will Be the Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb Ever–Popular Science headline
And the Pentagon hopes to deploy it next year
By Dan Smith Posted 08.03.2009 at 2:42 pmPopular Science
The Pentagon is trying to speed up the deployment of an ultra-large bunker-busting bomb, which would constitute the largest non-nuclear bomb the U.S. has ever used. The Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, is a 30,000-pound bomb that would dive deeper than any previous bomb, and could be strapped to B-2 or B-52 bombers by July of 2010.
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Somewhere in the Quad Cities.
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The Inventor
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Drawn to scale. The owner’s father is 53 feet tall.
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The pictured bomb is small in comparison.
The Massive Ordnance Penetrator will insure the terrorists and enemy regimes will get the message.
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