The GBU-57 MOP is the world’s most powerful non-nuclear aerial munition, packing 5,342 pounds of lethal high-explosive inside its 30,000-pound bulk. The bomb is so heavy that only the B-2 and the B-52 ...

CENTCOM says multiple 5,000 lb GBU-72/B Advanced 5K Penetrator munitions were used on hardened Iranian missile sites along Iran’s coastline near the Strait of Hormuz. It appears that the U.S. has ...

U.S. Air Force acquisition documents show that Boeing is being contracted to replenish the inventory of GBU-57’s expended during Operation Midnight Hammer. The U.S. Air Force is requesting the ...

In April 2017, the United States deployed the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast - the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat. Weighing over 21,000 pounds and stretching more than 30 feet long, ...

The enormous munition—previously used against Iran’s nuclear facilities during “Operation Midnight Hammer” in June 2025—was reportedly used to target an underground Iranian leadership meeting in ...

The United States is dropping its newest and second-most-powerful bunker-busting GBU-72 bomb on fortified targets in Iran, the first time the weapon has been used in combat, according to multiple ...