Pentagon releases video showing the moment its 21,000lb explosive killed 36 ISIS militants and blew away a network of cave tunnels in Afghanistan
POWERFUL: New Pentagon video shows the explosive power of the MOAB dropped in Afghanistan
The massive destructive power of the MOAB bomb is revealed in new aereal footage of the moment of impact.
The Pentagon released new video that shows the 21,000 'Mother of All Bombs' that the U.S. dropped in an effort to try to wipe out members of a terror group in Afghanistan.
The stark black and white images are soundless, but features of the landscape make clear the range and power of the munition that the U.S. deployed in battle for the first time.
The footage shows the moment of impact of the GBU-43B, the largest non-nuclear munition in the U.S. arsenal. At first, it reveals the video shows only a moving above-ground image of a mountain valley area sprinkled with trees.
Then, the explosive hits, forming a huge black plum forms. The explosion then radiates outward across the landscape, as a large black cloud rises above the presumably devastated area.
The government's decision to release the video ensures that potential adversaries get the opportunity to see the devastation wrought by the powerful weapon as it unfolds, at a time when the Trump administration is facing down a tense situation in North Korea, just days after launching 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield.
The Mother Of All Bombs that obliterated 36 ISIS militants and a rat-nest network of tunnels and caves was 'the best weapon to clear an obstacle' in an ongoing offensive against 20 terror groups in Afghanistan.
After dropping the most powerful non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat in Eastern Afghanistan, the Pentagon has confirmed it received no orders to flex military muscle and that it had been merely a decision taken on the ground.
The Pentagon released new video that shows the 21,000 'Mother of All Bombs' that the U.S. dropped in an effort to try to wipe out members of a terror group in Afghanistan.
The stark black and white images are soundless, but features of the landscape make clear the range and power of the munition that the U.S. deployed in battle for the first time.
The footage shows the moment of impact of the GBU-43B, the largest non-nuclear munition in the U.S. arsenal. At first, it reveals the video shows only a moving above-ground image of a mountain valley area sprinkled with trees.
Then, the explosive hits, forming a huge black plum forms. The explosion then radiates outward across the landscape, as a large black cloud rises above the presumably devastated area.
The government's decision to release the video ensures that potential adversaries get the opportunity to see the devastation wrought by the powerful weapon as it unfolds, at a time when the Trump administration is facing down a tense situation in North Korea, just days after launching 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield.
The Mother Of All Bombs that obliterated 36 ISIS militants and a rat-nest network of tunnels and caves was 'the best weapon to clear an obstacle' in an ongoing offensive against 20 terror groups in Afghanistan.
After dropping the most powerful non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat in Eastern Afghanistan, the Pentagon has confirmed it received no orders to flex military muscle and that it had been merely a decision taken on the ground.
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