USAF completes MOP testing; counter-WMD project launched in 2004 now program of record

By Jason Sherman / January 25, 2018 at 2:27 PM
The Air Force last year completed a fourth round of upgrades to Boeing's Massive Ordnance Penetrator -- a 30,000-pound bunker-busting bomb designed to hit deeply buried targets -- and established the weapon, the largest conventional explosive in the U.S. military inventory, as a formal program of record, according to a new report. In May 2017, the Air Force successfully completed a three-weapon drop of the MOP at White Sands Missile Range, NM, according to the Pentagon's top weapons tester, which...

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