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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Pentagon delays ‘bunker buster’ bomb project

GBU-57A/BA “bunker buster” bomb with more than 10 times the explosive power of its predecessor will be put into service by the United States next December, six months later than previously scheduled, the US Defense Department said yesterday.

The deployment’s timing may help shape calculations of the United States and others in long-running standoffs with Iran and North Korea over their nuclear programmes.

The precision-guided, 13,636 kg Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, is designed to destroy potential targets such as deeply buried nuclear facilities that are beyond the reach of existing bombs.

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