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 ...

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 ...

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

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has seized a foreign oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, citing fuel smuggling, ...

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 ...

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

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.

It was the first known operational deployment of the GBU-57 “Massive Ordnance Penetrator” (MOP) bomb, more commonly called the “bunker buster.” ...

Despite the precision and scale of US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites, Tehran’s regime is likely to rebuild, intensify proxy ...