This post has been updated to show USS Tripoli (LHA-7) is in port in Vietnam, not in the Philippine Sea. These are the ...

Two sailing crews were rescued Saturday after orcas attacked their boats off the coast of Portugal, near Lisbon, Portuguese authorities said. The recent confrontations at sea are the latest in a ...

Sail Biomedicines is shrinking its crew for the second time this year. The Flagship Pioneering-backed biotech is laying off about 36 employees as the company sharpens its focus on immunology, a ...

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The GBU-57 MOP is the world’s most powerful non-nuclear aerial munition, packing 5,342 pounds of lethal high-explosive inside its 30,000-pound bulk. The bomb is so heavy that only the B-2 and the B-52 ...

A 15-ton “bunker buster” bomb was likely needed to destroy the last untouched nuclear facility in Iran, and only the US had one. Such a powerful weapon — the largest non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal ...

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) In inserting itself into Israel’s war against Iran, the U.S. unleashed ...

While Israel is wielding a wide array of weapons during their ongoing attacks on Iran, there is at least one which only the United States can bring to the battlespace: a bunker-busting bomb known as ...

Animated 3D illustration of the bunker-busting GBU-57, also named Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), capable of penetrating around 60 metres underground before exploding. VIDEOGRAPHIC The members of ...

The challenge sounds unreal: How do you blast a hole through a mountain of concrete and granite and then blow up what hides beneath it―all without crossing the nuclear line? The solution is a ...