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GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast
The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB pronounced , commonly known as the Mother of All Bombs) is a large-yield conventional (non-nuclear) bomb, developed for the United States military by Albert L. Weimorts, Jr. of the Air Force Research Laboratory. At the time of development, it was touted as the most powerful non-nuclear weapon ever designed.〔(GBU-43/B / "Mother Of All Bombs" / Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb )〕 The bomb was designed to be delivered by a C-130 Hercules, primarily the MC-130E Combat Talon I or MC-130H Combat Talon II variants.
Since then, Russia has tested its "Father of All Bombs", which is claimed to be four times as powerful as the MOAB.
==Operational history==
MOAB was first tested with the explosive tritonal on 11 March 2003, on Range 70 located at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. It was again tested on 21 November 2003.〔
Aside from two test articles, the only known production is of 15 units at the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant in 2003 in support of the Iraq War. As of early 2007, none of those is known to have been used, although a single MOAB was moved to the Persian Gulf area in April 2003.〔(MOAB bomb moved to Iraq war region )〕
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