Business Insider/The Aviationist: Here's what it looks like when a B-2 stealth bomber drops massive 30,000-pound bunker busters on a target
* The GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator is a 30,000-pound bunker buster said to be able to penetrate 200 feet of concrete before detonation.
* In this video, viewers can see the stealth B-2 Spirit bomber drop two of these devastating weapons, among other activities.
Last year we found rare footage of a Spirit stealth bomber dropping a GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator. Here's a clip showing a B-2 dropping two such bombs.
As explained in an article we published last year, there are just a few images showing the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator carried by (or next to) a B-2 Spirit, the weapon's intended platform of the large 30,000-lb (14,000 kg) bunker buster bomb. One of these is the photo we published in 2013, here,as well as the video of the B-2 dropping one of the two MOPs the stealth bomber can carry in its internal bomb bay that we found in a clip by the 393rd Bomb Squadron, one of the units that operate the Spirit stealth bomber as part of the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base Missouri, in October 2017.
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Update: WATCH US B-2 Dropping 'Mother of All Bombs' (Sputnik)
WNU editor: Impressive.
1 comment:
hard to believe this plane is already almost 30 years old.. First flight was July 17 1989.. so I find it had to believe that this is the best the US got at the moment.. i really want to know what these fast moving, non-linear moving lights were that were seen across the US this and last year :D Hope we get to see a new plane soon
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