Friday, March 30, 2007

US military tests ground-penetrating Monster Bomb


Now I wonder where they might want to use that?

Full details on the MOP bomb here.

The Mop Bomb a proposal by the US Air Force to develop a massive, precision-guided, 30,000 lb (13,600 kg) 'bunker buster' bomb. This is substantially larger than the deepest penetrating bunker buster presently available, the 5000 lb (2,270 kg) GBU-28.

The earliest types of these bombs were designed by Barnes-Wallis (of Dambuster fame). The two most famous versions of which were Tallboy and Grand Slam.


Ground Penetrating Monster Bomb

1 comment:

Theo Spark said...

Grand Slam, if Carlsberg made bombs.