Penetrating concrete bunkers or underground facilities is no easy task for any modern military. As such, worldwide governments hide their most valuable secrets, such as their nuclear arsenals, below ...

President Trump is facing a critical decision on whether to use America’s B-2 bombers to drop the GBU-57 bunker buster bombs on the Fordow nuclear facility, which is buried in the mountains of Iran.

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 ...

Christian Orr, editor of the National Security Journal, writes, “If Mr. Sweetman’s estimates are accurate, that would cast serious doubt upon the newer warbird’s ability to carry the 30,000-lb.

A Boeing GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator in testing. Credit: Defense Department For the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the U.S. Air Force, devoting the time and money to build an ...

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 ...