Bunker buster bombs can go to varying depths depending on the model, from just under 2 feet with the BLU-109 to over 200 feet with the current BLU-127.

What does one do with a 30,000-pound bomb and 90 meters of ancient carbonate rock? For the U.S. Air Force, the solution at ...

Delve deep into one of the most intense questions in military strategy: Can the U.S.'s 30,000-lb GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) truly penetrate Iran’s most secure and heavily fortified ...

The MOP was developed in the early 2000s as part of a DARPA-led effort created in response to the emergence of Iranian and North Korean fortified nuclear facilities.

Last weekend's strike on Iran's Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant used 30,000-pound GBU-57 "massive ordnance penetrator" bombs.

The US military did not use bunker-buster bombs on one of Iran’s largest nuclear sites last weekend because the site is so ...

The Pentagon on Thursday released an extraordinary number of details about the military's top-secret bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities and its defense of an air base in Qatar.

The deep penetrating bombs that the U.S. dropped into two Iranian nuclear facilities were designed specifically for those ...

The Pentagon released jaw-dropping footage showcasing how the 30,000-pound heavy-duty bunker-buster bombs that were used ...

Reaching Iran's most fortified nuclear enrichment site is a challenge, even for the world's biggest conventional weapons.

An earlier large-scale US bomb, the 22,000lb Massive Ordnance Air Blast or MOAB, colloquially known as the Mother of All Bombs, was a less powerful thermobaric weapon but it was used to ...

Nobody, perhaps not even President Trump himself, knows for sure whether the United States will wind up joining Israel in launching military strikes on Iran. “I may do it, I may not do it,” he ...