'Mother of All Bombs' test (archive) - BBC News

In 2003, the US Department of Defense released footage of the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB) being tested.
On Thursday, the Pentagon revealed it had used the weapon - the biggest non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal - on an Islamic State group tunnel complex in Afghanistan.

[joeblack]

Just waiting for the 25 kill streak....

[acerfid]

That is the most American thing I've seen all day.

[deselby]

when your country spends almost a trillion dollars on its military every year they are certainly going to use that military, whether its needed or not.

[markhollingsworth]

Just to keep things in proper perspective -- MOAB is an 11 ton bomb. A 20 megaton hydrogen bomb is about a million times more powerful.

[adamsaudiojournal]

I have no way of gauging how large of an explosion this is. The mother of all bombs could be the size of a small swimming pool for all I know.

[jameswelsby]

hard to grasp the size of the explosion from this footage. I was expecting something larger though.

[rorysmith]

MOAB stands for massive ordinance air blast; no power like the atom bombs but still powerful enough to get the message across

[DerekMoore]

That explosion looks lame. Mythbusters had bigger fireballs than that.

[TSSxEmber]

looks like someone got a 25 kill streak

[emperorpalpatine]

Beautiful. The pure essence of mankind.

[sandyredcloud]

nice now how hard is it really to get a selfie with bigfoot?

[hazardboss]

when you playing MW3 and your predator missile is ready for deployment.

[MajorMustang]

now just send 100 more. Problem solved. Then we leave.

[j-man]

That thing rose fertilizer prices 30% every time it was used lol

[oh.hey.]

No wonder the aliens don't visit us...

[avnmflorida]

IT was called a daisy cutter in Vietnam.

[MrTheheadhunter]

wait so it was just a giant bomb and people are losing their shit about it... if it wasn't nuclear then big deal

[anom]

so many drama queens. its amazing how immature people are. just read the comments as if they are from ten year olds

[AurelDuka]

Russia has a much bigger bomb: Father of all bombs. Russians outsmarted the Americans even on the name of the device 😂😂

[SuperSilverRage]

36 killed and 16 Million cost of MOAB which equals $444, 444.44 per
kill....Sorry Doni that is not a good RATE of RETURN on your investment