MOAB

Smoke rising from a GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb strike on an alleged ISIS cave and tunnel systems in the Achin district of the Nangarhar Province in eastern Afghanistan. (U.S. Department of Defense via AP)
For the first time ever, the United States has used the GBU-43 Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb, a 21,000 lb conventional bomb, in a non-test environment in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province. Officials say they are still assessing what the attack did.

The Trump administration has released video of the GBU-43/B Massive Ordinance Air Blast bomb or the MOAB, also known as Mother Of All Bombs.
This is what the most powerful non-nuclear bomb looks like when its dropped…in this scenario the bomb was used to hit ISIS in tunnel caves.
Such MOAB bombs may be deployed in other US conflicts, old and new…perhaps Syria or North Korea.

Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump unleashed one of the most powerful U.S. bombs—the 20,000 pound GBU-43, known as “the mother of all bombs”—on Afghanistan on Thursday, the Pentagon has confirmed. The MOAB, which stands for massive ordinance air blast, reportedly struck an Islamic State (ISIS) tunnel complex in Nangarhar province. According to the Department of Defense statement, “the strike was designed to[Read More...]

The media is awash with enthusiastic reports that the US military has employed the largest conventional bomb ever designed, the Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb or “MOAB” (18,000 lbs. of explosive, 22,000 lbs. total weight) on a cave-bunker complex in near Tora Bora in Afghanistan – the same place Osama bin Laden was supposedly hiding not long after 9-11.
The US says the complex was being used by ISIS.

Donald Trump has more or less admitted that he has given the military free reign over what bombs to drop, how, when and possibly even where.
When asked if he specifically authorised the dropping of the MOAB in Afghanistan he dodged the question saying,

“…everybody knows what happened”.

He continued,

(ZHE) Perhaps in preparation for upcoming events on the Korean Peninsula, CNN reports the US military has dropped an enormous bomb in Afghanistan, according to four US military officials with direct knowledge of the mission.

21st Century Wire says…

The US military has used its GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), nicknamed “the mother of all bombs,” for the first time in combat. The US Air Force used it in Afghanistan to target Islamic State tunnels and personnel.

For the first time in history, America has dropped the largest conventional (aka non-nuclear) bomb during a combat mission. The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb otherwise known as the Mother of All Bombs or MOAB was first developed in 2003 during the invasion of Iraq.