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 ...

Key Point and Summary - After Operation Midnight Hammer showed the GBU-57 MOP often needed multiple bombs per aimpoint at Fordow, the Air Force tapped ARA and Boeing to build the Next Generation ...

Airmen look at a GBU-57, or the Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb, at Whiteman Air Base in Missouri, 2023. (U.S. Air Force via AP) The U.S. Air Force last week awarded defense firm Applied Research ...

Iran's most fortified nuclear facility, called Fordo, is buried deep inside a mountain. Only the U.S. has the 30,000-pound bombs — often... The U.S. used 'bunker buster' bombs in Iran. Here's what to ...

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 ...

The Donald Trump administration has begun drawing up preliminary contingency plans for potential large-scale airstrikes against Iranian military targets, US officials said on Saturday, as nationwide ...

The US Air Force is at work on a successor to the huge 30,000-pound bunker-buster bomb used to strike Iran's nuclear facilities earlier this year. The service awarded a contract to design and ...