The U.S. military dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, just days after a Green Beret was killed fighting ISIS there, a U.S. defense official confirmed to Fox News. The GBU-43B, a 21,000-pound conventional bomb, was dropped on an ISIS tunnel complex in Nangarhar Province. 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. READ MORE
