The 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator is considered by analysts to be the best shot at getting through to targets ...

A 15-ton “bunker buster” bomb was likely needed to destroy the last untouched nuclear facility in Iran, and only the US had one.

The Massive Ordnance Penetrator Bomb Israel Wants to Destroy Iran’s Fordo Nuclear Facility American military engineers designed the GBU-57/B bomb to devastate deeply buried bunkers without ...

The US Air Force says the GBU-57 bunker-buster bomb can penetrate up to 200 feet below ground before exploding.

American military engineers designed the GBU-57/B bomb to devastate deeply buried bunkers without radioactive fallout. It’s the only nonnuclear weapon that can reach Iran’s hardest target ...

Donald Trump has overseen nearly as many air strikes in the first five months of his second term as Joe Biden launched in his ...

Israel's best chance at destroying the facility at Fordo could lie with a U.S.-produced bomb that's so heavy that it can only ...

Seven B-2 stealth aircraft dropped a total of 14 GBU-57 bunker-buster bombs on Iranian nuclear sites last weekend.

Airmen look at a GBU-57, or Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb, at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri in 2023. Photo / Whiteman Air Force Base, US Air Force In the event that the United States ...

This bomb, the GBU-57, is better known as a "bunker buster” or the Massive Ordnance Penetrator. Why is the MOP the right tool for the job? It's in the name.

Netanyahu seeks the US Massive Ordnance Penetrator to target Iran's fortified nuclear sites. The MOP is a 14-ton US bunker buster designed to penetrate 200 feet of reinforced materials.