Što je 'majka svih bombi'? Toliko je golema da je ne nose obični bombarderi

These photo series taken from a video 11 March 2003 released by the US Department of Defense shows the dropping, exploding and aftermath of a Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb at the Eglin Air Force Base Air Armament Center's western test range in Florida. The MOAB, also nicknamed "mother of all bombs," is the Air Force's heaviest conventional bomb, a 21,000-lb (9,545-kg) satellite guided behemoth. The (MOAB) bomb surpasses the 15,000 pound "daisy cutter" as the largest conventional bomb in the US inventory.,Image: 69623490, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no March 11, 2003, Pensacola, Florida, USA: A Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) weapon is prepared for testing at the Eglin Air Force Armament Center on March 11, 2003. 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 non-nuclear conventional weapon in existence. The MOAB is an Air Force Research Laboratory technology project that began in fiscal year 2002 and is to be completed this year. On April 13, 2017, the US military dropped “the mother of all bombs” on ISIS fighters and hideouts in Afghanistan, the largest non-nuclear explosive ever used in wartime. The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, nicknamed MOAB, was dropped at 7 p.m. local time. A MOAB — nicknamed the mother of all bombs — is a 21,600-pound, GPS-guided munition that is America’s most powerful non-nuclear bomb. The bomb was dropped by an MC-130 aircraft, flown by Air Force Special Operations Command. The target was tunnels used by ISIS terrorists in the Achin district of the Nangarhar province.,Image: 328937600, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no March 11, 2003 - United States: The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb prototype moments before it makes contact during testing March 11, 2003. The detonation created a mushroom cloud that could be seen from up to 20 miles away.,Image: 1088249797, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO LARGER FILE SIZE AVAILABLE, Model Release: no