MOAB: The Mother of All Bombs

This is a case where the name really does say it all.

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[serpico]

In case anyone was wondering, MOAB stands for Massive Ordinance Air Blast.

[fawakamaha]

I'm pretty sure Mother Of All Bombs is a slang acronym. Fairly certain the actual acronym is Massive Ordinance Air Burst.

[bobleeswagger]

me: im tired
youtube: do you wanna learn about the moab
me: sure why not

[Silverwing]

I did some maths, and in addition to it being four Michael Jordans long, it was just two inches shy of being one Warwick Davis in diameter.

[carterbowman]

ISIS denounced America dropping bombs on ISIS? I'm shocked.

[_Morphne_]

ISIS: "hey the MOAB isnt cool stop using it"

U.S: "...i dont think you understand how this works"

[timmack]

The psychological effect of realizing that you're not even safe in a long cave, makes this bad boy a real gem!

[SteveVilence]

It was used because a couple of special forces guys were killed in that mountain side... The bomb was designed as a tunnel crusher. The cost to train and equip special ops, is the basically the same cost of the moab

[chaseweeks]

Lol, pronunciations are hard. In 'Murica we pronounce it 'MO-AB'

[danbanks]

I'd like to know when the civilian version will be available

[popuptarget]

Not as devistating as the Kill And Render Enemies Now bomb.
Known as the KAREN. Devistating on all management levels

[MCshadr]

Another side note on the Tsar Bomba: The test actually went so well, that it terrified even the Soviet Union at the time, and the nuclear project was scrapped from then on out, sticking to much smaller bombs.
Why did it terrify them, you ask? Because the test was a success, and that meant the potential of the Tsar Bomba was near unlimited. They could theoretically have any size they wanted, due to how the Tsar Bomba was designed.

[Kabayoth]

A LIttle known episode in Vietnam involves the Daisy Cutter: Army brass wanted to use this to clear a landing area for an Airborne drop and set up an operation to try it out. The Daisy Cutter was dropped, the troops jumped out of the planes, and were promptly impaled on the jagged tree stumps sticking out of the ground. My uncle was sent to recover the men via helicopter. Quite frankly, I'm astonished he spoke of this tragedy at all.

Daisy Cutters were used for heliborne assaults after that. Airborne assaults were almost entirely made from helicopters throughout the war if I'm not mistaken.

[theofficialwizard]

Living 50 miles away from Eglin AFB in Pensacola my dad told me you could feel the ground shake and clearly hear the blast when they tested these. Even now you can feel significantly smaller explosives being tested sometimes at night you’ll wake up to the weird sensation of a small quake lol

[billyhawkins]

am thinking it should be used against robo-callers.

[paramed]

If the weapons that are public knowledge are that terrifying, imagine all the weapons that are still top secret 😅

[cynicalmedic]

MOAB
*Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour flashbacks*
Fun times.

[StealthTheUnknown]

“The terrorists don’t like being blown up with it” eh, too bad.

[TinHatRanch]

It has a diameter of half a MIchael Moore.

[birdman]

Though the MOAB kill rate might be smaller than reported and the price-per-kill ratio deemed questionable, the psychological damage of having one dropped in your backyard is priceless!