A US Army ammunition plant in Oklahoma is being expanded to at least triple monthly production of the US’s biggest non-nuclear bomb, a weapon often invoked in debates about a potential attack on deeply buried nuclear facilities in Iran or North Korea.

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1. 🙋‍♂️What is the weight, Cessna can carry?

2. They’re probably looking at Hamas tunnels and anticipating that becoming a popular tactic

3. Moab?

4. What’s interesting is that in WW2, we learnt how to drop shaped bombs from high altitude so that they penetrated meters of concrete before detonation. This made them hugely more effective.

   Far more effective than use of the big fat bomb or whatever it was called outside Taliban caves.

5. So this thing is basically a bunker buster variant or the moab? My understanding was MOAB collapses caves from the pressure. This thing actually penatrates the ground before going off? That’s gotta move a LOT of dirt.

6. So how deep a target can it destroy?

7. Hopefully the bunker underneath Moscow State University.