coffee_rules Posted April 13, 2017 Posted April 13, 2017 http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/13/politics/afghanistan-isis-moab-bomb/index.html Quote First on CNN: US drops largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan
velu Posted April 13, 2017 Posted April 13, 2017 Quote The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), known as "the mother of all bombs", was first tested in 2003, but had not been used before in combat. The Pentagon said it was dropped from a US aircraft in Nangarhar province. The news came hours after the Pentagon admitted an air strike in Syria mistakenly killed 18 rebels. It said a partnered force had mistakenly identified the target location as an IS position, but the strike on 11 April had killed rebels from the Syrian Democratic Forces, which is backed by Washington. The strike in Afghanistan follows last week's death of a US special forces soldier fighting IS in Nangarhar. The 21,600lb (9,800kg) bomb was dropped in Achin district on Thursday evening local time, the Pentagon said. It is more than 9m (30 feet) in length. "We targeted a system of tunnels and caves that ISIS fighters use to move around freely, making it easier for them to target US military advisers and Afghan forces in the area," White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said, using another name for IS. He said necessary precautions were taken to prevent civilian casualties and "collateral damage". US special forces soldier is killed in Afghanistan Gen John Nicholson, commander of US forces in Afghanistan, said the jihadist group's "losses have mounted, they are using IEDs, bunkers and tunnels to thicken their defence. "This is the right munition to reduce these obstacles and maintain the momentum of our offensive." NO pc principal BS .. trump http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39595989
Gollum Posted April 13, 2017 Posted April 13, 2017 Hope civilian loss is minimum. Sent from my SM-G350E using Tapatalk Muloghonto 1
zen Posted April 13, 2017 Posted April 13, 2017 (edited) http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/04/13/us-drops-largest-non-nuclear-bomb-in-afghanistan-after-green-beret-killed.html The U.S. military dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb on an ISIS tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, a U.S. defense official confirmed to Fox News. The GBU-43B, a 21,000-pound conventional bomb, was deployed in Nangarhar Province close to the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. By comparison, each Tomahawk cruise missile launched at a Syrian military air base last week weighed 1,000 pounds each. Expand / Contract The Massive Ordinance Air Blast was first tested in 2003. (DOD) The MOAB -- Massive Ordnance Air Blast -- is also known as the “Mother Of All Bombs.” It was first tested in 2003, but hadn't been used in combat before Thursday. PS Edited April 13, 2017 by zen
jalebi_bhai Posted April 13, 2017 Posted April 13, 2017 Thread already exists on this topic. Will merge this thread with it. Edit: threads merged.
BeautifulGame Posted April 14, 2017 Posted April 14, 2017 US has basically made Afganistan basically testing ground for their new weapons velu and Pollack 2
Muloghonto Posted April 14, 2017 Posted April 14, 2017 Good move. The intricate network of tunnels occurring naturally/manmade in the Tora-Bora/Nangarhar region needs to be destroyed for the security of Afghanistan. GoldenSun 1
HippoSucks Posted April 14, 2017 Posted April 14, 2017 36 ISIS fighters killed and no civilian casualties according to reports.
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