At 7:32 p.m. local time in the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan on Thursday, an earth-rocking Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB) was dropped out of the back of a U.S. Air Force MC-130 aircraft.
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The Mother of All Bombs is said to have killed 36 ISIS militants who were in a tunnel and cave complex in eastern Afghanistan.
The Pentagon released video of the moment the gigantic and powerful GBU-43 bomb detonated.— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 14, 2017
President Donald Trump, who authorized the attack, called the bombing a “very, very successful mission.”
“As [ISIS’] losses have mounted, they are using IEDs, bunkers, and tunnels to thicken their defense,” Gen. John Nicholson, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said in a statement. “This is the right munition to reduce these obstacles and maintain the momentum of our offensive against [ISIS].”
Here are some facts about the MOAB:
Here is video of the Mother of All Bombs in action from the 2013 test.
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