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Pentagon Lobbying For Super ‘Bunker-Buster’ Bomb
The Pentagon is lobbying the Obama administration to speed-up the deployment of a new massive bunker busting bomb called the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP).
The 30,000-pound MOP carries more than 5,300 pounds of explosives and can reach even the deepest underground bunker complexes. Once deployed, it would be the biggest non-nuclear bomb ever used.
Boeing says it’s already in the testing phase and could have the bombs loaded onto B-2 stealth bombers by 2010.
The MOP is something we need more than anything at this point. After the dust settled in Iraq, the Pentagon studied the impact of the air campaign against the Saddam Hussein government and were less than impressed.
Many of Saddam’s hardened bunkers were left intact after being hit multiple times with the largest bunker busters in our arsenal. Saddam’s legendary bunkers were simply too deep for our bombs to reach.
Iran has allegedly buried their nuclear program in bunkers that exceed even the depth of Saddam’s bunkers.
Accelerating the deployment of the MOP bomb should be a top priority of this administration — sadly, I fear it won’t be.
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