Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43/B_MOAB
Description: On 13 April 2017, a MOAB was dropped on an Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP) cave complex in Achin District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. It was the first operational use of the bomb.
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Link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-drops-mother-of-all-bombs-in-afghanistan-marking-weapons-first-use/
Description: Apr 14, 2017 · The U.S. dropped a bomb with an explosive force equal to 11 tons of TNT on a cave complex used by the Afghanistan branch of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Thursday, the Pentagon...
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Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39705128
Description: 27 April 2017. The BBC's Auliya Atrafi found fighting continues close to where the MOAB hit. On 13 April the US dropped one of its largest non-nuclear bombs on a tunnel complex used by...
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Link: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mother-of-all-bombs-afghanistan
Description: Aug 23, 2021 · On April 13, 2017, American forces in Afghanistan drop one of the largest non-nuclear weapons ever used by the U.S. military. The “Mother of All Bombs” hits an Islamic State tunnel complex with...
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Link: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/why-america-dropped-mother-all-bombs-isis-afghanistan-n746481
Description: Apr 14, 2017 · The MOAB was the largest non-nuclear bomb ever dropped by the U.S. military — so big it had to be pushed out of a cargo plane attached to a parachute. A Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB)...
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Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Nangarhar_airstrike
Description: The airstrike was carried out using the largest non- nuclear bomb in the United States' arsenal, the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB), with the goal of destroying tunnel complexes used by the Islamic State – Khorasan Province (IS-KP). [5] [6] [7] The bomb was dropped from the rear cargo door of a United States Air Force Lockheed MC-130.
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Link: https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/13/politics/afghanistan-isis-moab-bomb/index.html
Description: Apr 13, 2017 · A GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), nicknamed the “mother of all bombs,” was dropped at 7:32 p.m. local time, according to four US military officials with direct knowledge of...
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Link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-mother-of-all-bombs-that-the-u-s-just-dropped-on-afghanistan/
Description: Apr 13, 2017 · The MOAB is a precision-guided munition weighing 21,500 pounds and will be dropped from a C-130 Hercules aircraft for the test. It will be the largest nonnuclear conventional weapon in...
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Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39595989
Description: Apr 13, 2017 · The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), known as "the mother of all bombs", is the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used by the US in a conflict. The Pentagon said it was dropped...
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Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/world/asia/moab-mother-of-all-bombs-afghanistan.html
Description: Apr 13, 2017 · WASHINGTON — The United States dropped the “mother of all bombs” — the most powerful conventional bomb in the American arsenal — on an Islamic State cave complex in Afghanistan on Thursday, the...
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