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Post by Daniel on Apr 14, 2017 10:56:13 GMT -5
Trump: MOAB drop a success
President Trump referred in a press conference to the dropping of a MOAB bomb on ISIS.
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Post by Daniel on Apr 14, 2017 11:33:23 GMT -5
US drops largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan
Washington (CNN)The US military dropped America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets in Afghanistan Thursday, the first time this type of weapon has been used in battle, according to US officials.
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 the mission. A MOAB is a 30-foot-long, 21,600-pound, GPS-guided munition.
more
www.cnn.com/2017/04/13/politics/afghanistan-isis-moab-bomb/index.html
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