The US Air Force has awarded a contract for the design of a next-generation bunker-buster bomb. The bomb will eventually replace the 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP. The MOP ...

The US military is providing new details about its decade-long effort to develop the massive bunker-busting bombs used in recent strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities. That raid saw seven ...

In the early morning hours of Saturday, June 21, the U.S. conducted aerial strikes on three Iranian Nuclear sites, including Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, using massive bunker-busting bombs. Experts ...

Key Point and Summary - After Operation Midnight Hammer showed the GBU-57 MOP often needed multiple bombs per aimpoint at Fordow, the Air Force tapped ARA and Boeing to build the Next Generation ...

In inserting itself into Israel's war against Iran, Washington unleashed its massive “bunker-buster” bombs on Iran's Fordo fuel enrichment plant. Those bombs were widely seen as the best chance of ...

Chinese military scientists have proposed a way to counter the US Air Force's famed GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOP) or bunker busters by revealing an alleged flaw with their design. In a ...

The U.S. Air Force has shown off the devastating effects of their bunker-buster bombs as used in Iran. Air Force Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, offered a detailed ...

President Trump announced the U.S. bombed three Iranian nuclear sites, marking official U.S. entry into the war. The bombing targeted Fordo, a key underground nuclear facility, and two other sites.

A GBU-57, or the Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb, at Whiteman Air Base in Missouri, In a photo released by the U.S. Air Force. (U.S. Air Force/AP) The U.S. bombers that attacked Iran's nuclear sites ...

B-2 Spirit bombers dropped a total of 14 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators, or MOPs, on two of the Iranian nuclear facility sites struck this weekend as part of “Operation Midnight Hammer,” Air ...

"ARA will also produce and test sub-scale and full-scale prototype munitions," the ... The NGP is expected to eventually succeed the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, the big bunker-buster ...

Airmen look at a GBU-57, or the Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb, at Whiteman Air Base in Missouri, 2023. (U.S. Air Force via AP) In inserting itself into Israel’s war against Iran, the U.S. unleashed ...