FYI: Washington (AP) -- The Pentagon says U.S. forces in Afghanistan dropped the military's largest non-nuclear bomb on an Islamic State target in Afghanistan.
Adam Stump is a Pentagon spokesman. Stump says it was the first-ever combat use of the bomb, known as the GBU-43, which he said contains 11 tons of explosives. The Air Force calls it the Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb. Based on the acronym, it has been nicknamed the "Mother Of All Bombs."
Stump says the bomb was dropped on a cave complex believed to be used by IS fighters in the Achin district of Nangarhar province, very close to the border with Pakistan.
Regards,
Ted
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-13/pentagon-us-dropped-largest-non-nuclear-bomb-in-afghanistanMOAB: "Mother Of All Bombs" (This bomb has been around since 2003, its about time we used it !)
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Binyamin AppelbaumVerified account @BCAppelbaum 4h4 hours ago
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Trumpeting the size of the bomb, rather than the results (if there were any), is basically the way the government narrated the Vietnam War.
Karzai accuses U.S. of using Afghanistan as testing ground for new more powerful weapons:
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/2017/04/13/karzai-afghans-should-stop-the-usa-after-country-used-as-moab-testing-ground/
Combination of the spring arms show for those in NKOR and Iran and Damascus and braggadocio on the part of 45 [my bomb's bigger than your bomb]. I still think 45's insecurity psychosis is due to being underendowed. No other reason to constantly have to prove how macho you are.
and so it goes,
peace,
rono