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 ...

Here's how the world's largest non-nuclear bomb, the guided Massive Ordnance Penetrator, could go deep underground and shake ...

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 ...

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a contract to develop its next-generation bunker-buster bomb, set to replace the 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator. Applied Research Associates (ARA) ...

Israel's attack on Iran aimed at destroying its nuclear program has raised speculation about whether the U.S. would use one of America's most powerful weapons to make that happen. The Israeli ...

A company with a Dayton-area presence has landed an Air Force Life Cycle Management Center contract to help develop the next “bunker buster” bomb. ARA, or Applied Research Associates Inc. — which has ...

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 ...