The Air Force would have used it’s most powerful “bunker buster:” the 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator. It is the most powerful bunker buster bomb in the U.S. Air Force’s arsenal, and ...

The heavyweight explosive is known as a GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator and was designed by Boeing for the United States Air Force.

The Pentagon released jaw-dropping footage showcasing how the 30,000-pound heavy-duty bunker-buster bombs that were used ...

Reaching Iran's most fortified nuclear enrichment site is a challenge, even for the world's biggest conventional weapons.

The U.S. bombers that attacked Iran's nuclear sites dropped GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators, bunker-busting bombs ...

As the war between Israel and Iran escalates, a single U.S. weapon keeps getting mentioned—sometimes quietly, sometimes not so quietly.

Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb In this photo released by the U.S. Air Force on May 2, 2023, airmen look at a GBU-57, or the Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb, at Whiteman Air Base in Missouri.

While a child in wartime Vietnam, Anh Duong vowed to one day help the soldiers who saved her. She and her Navy team helped ...

The U.S. Air Force has just taken delivery of the first GBU-57A/B (Massive Ordnance Penetrator). It weighs 30,000 lb and will penetrate 200 ft of hardened concrete BEFORE it goes off. If you are ...

The 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator is considered by analysts to be the best shot at getting through to targets ...

The GBU-57s, or the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP for short), were carried by a fleet of B-2 bombers, marking the first time the munitions were used in combat. U.S. forces struck three sites ...