The United States has successfully tested a huge aerial bomb designed to destroy hardened targets, such as deeply buried nuclear sites.
Boeing's 30,000-pound, named the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, underwent a static test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico earlier this month to check its effectiveness against tunnel complexes that could be used for enemy weapons-of-mass-destruction programs.
"The weapon's effectiveness against hard and deeply buried targets allows the warfighter to hold adversaries' most highly valued military facilities at risk, especially those protecting weapons of mass destruction," Boeing Program Director Bob McClurg said in a news release Monday.
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