Details about the future NGP are limited, but current speculation suggests it could be roughly similar in size to the 30,000-pound “Massive Ordnance Penetrator.” The United States Air Force used its ...

US Air Force B-2 stealth aircraft dropped 14 heavy bunker-buster bombs on Iran's nuclear facilities. A top US general on Wednesday offered a discussion of the development of the GBU-57. The bomb, ...

This may eliminate the U.S. ability to deliver the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (GBU-57/B or MOP) which is by far the most effective U.S. conventional weapon against hard and very deeply buried targets ...

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 Air Force (USAF) has formally started the next era of deep-penetration strike capability by awarding a contract to develop a prototype replacement for its GBU-57/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator ...

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 ...

A B-2 drops a GBU-57 MOP. Credit: Naeblys / Alamy Stock Photo An accurate assessment of the performance of the Boeing GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) in its combat debut in Iran could take ...

A Boeing GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator in testing. Credit: Defense Department For the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the U.S. Air Force, devoting the time and money to build an ...