The GBU-43 bomb is weighing 21 times the number of bombs being dropped by the US in Syria.
New Delhi / Kabul The US used the world's largest bomb to destroy the ISIS bases in Nangarh in Afghanistan on Thursday evening. These bombs are weighing 21 times more than the bombs being dropped by the US in Syria. After the rupture, its smog and the amount of ammunition can be felt up to 32 kilometers away. With it 1.5 km The area gets damaged and where the bomb falls, there is a 300-meter wide crater. It blast 1.8 meters above the ground. The Achhin district of Afghanistan's Nanagad Province, where the bomb was dropped, the distance of Pakistan's Toraham border is just 60 km. Learn in six points, after all what is the bomb ...
1. How is the GBU-43 bomb?
- GBU-43 is also called Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB). MOAB is also called some experts' mother of all bamb. If you leave nuclear bombs, then it is the most powerful traditional bomb in the world.
- It weighs around 10,000 kilograms. A total of 8,164 kg is implosive. Comparison with TNT explanation (trinitrotoluene), it is 11 times stronger than that. Destroys all the things that fall within one and a half mile radius.
- The 15-tonne TNT used in the Hiroshima nuclear bomb was used by the United States called "Little Boy".
2. When was it made?
- The special Explosive Unit of US Air Force made it the first time in 2002. It is believed that American Air Force wanted to use this bomb in Iraq, but then the administration withdrew its permission at the last minute.
3. How much is the price of a bomb
One bomb is worth 103 crores. Its weight is 10 thousand kg.
- length: 9 meters
- Width: 1 meter
- Price: 103 crores
- Explosives: 11 tonnes of H-6, TNT and aluminum
- Range: Destroy all to 1.5 miles in the falling place.
3. Russia wanted to give collision
- In 2007, Russia created a bomb against the GBU-43. Russian Defense Sources called it FOAB, the Father of the Bomb. However, Russia never officially told about this bomb.
- Never been told about the Air Droping of GBU-43 But, according to a Defense website, the US uses the C-130 Hercules Plane to drop it. It is dropped by means of a heavy parachute.
- One year after the bomb was ready, it was tested on the Florida Air Base of the US Air Force in 2003.
4. Which American bomb made the choice?
- Some experts believe that this is the option of BLU-82 (also called Daisy Cutter 'bomb). It has been used in many places in the Vietnam War and then in Afghanistan. However, it was not as dangerous and heavy as the GBU-43.
5. C-130 cargo dropped by plane
The bomb has a grid that gets folded. So that its size is reduced and it can be kept in the plane.
- It works through a palette, the palette is pulled down through the parachute, from which the bomb comes out of the plane. Then the palette is separated from the bomb so that the bomb fell on the target.
- It blast 1.8 meters above the ground. Blast in the air so that the devastation is high.
- Its size is so large that it is dropped from the C-130 cargo plane instead of fighter plane. Its cover is made of aluminum. This causes more damage after blast.
6. Expert opinion on the bomb
According to America's former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, we developed these bombs as psychological operations. Its motive was to scare Saddam Hussein. The video of its test was released just so that the people of Iraq (especially supporters of Saddam Hussein) are afraid. But, then the government did not get permission and it was not used anymore.
- One of Israel's defense experts, Jack BinLon says - America wants to use this bomb as a trump card. There will be devastation for many kilometers where this bomb will fall. This is a great weapon for organizations such as terrorism and especially the IS.
Qlicky Code | GBU43 |
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