Massive Ordnance Penetrator Breaks Through 200 Feet of Pure Concrete.

Penetrating concrete bunkers or underground facilities is no easy task for any modern military. As such, worldwide governments hide their most valuable secrets, such as their nuclear arsenals, below layers of soil, rock, and reinforced cement.

Still, as tensions continue rising between the United States and countries like China, North Korea, Russia, and Iran, the US Air Force has come up with the world’s most powerful bunker buster bomb: the Massive Ordnance Penetrator or MOP.

The satellite-guided weapon weighs 30,000 pounds, carries over 5,300 pounds of high explosives, and can break through 200 feet of pure concrete.
And with so much power, not even North Korea and China will be able to hide from its devastating effect…

[marcusmoonstein]

I never thought of double-tapping these bombs. Using the first one to excavate a massive crater and then dropping the second one into the bottom to penetrate even further.

[Wooargh]

It's reinforced concrete, not reinforced cement. Cement is powder so reinforcing it isn't going to get you very far.

[harrykoppers]

The GBU-28 was fast tracked by taking worn out 8 in howitzer barrels and machining out the rifling, putting a hardened cap on it, stuffing it full of boomy stuff, and viola!

[jasonswearingin]

Imagine being in the bathroom of a heavily reinforced facility and this thing lands right in a toilet. Just before it detonates you see in your local language painted on the side "No lube No problem".

[glengearhart]

Another great video! I did notice one mistake though. When you went into other nations procuring the MOP, you stated Israel and North Korea. LOL OOOPS. LOVE all the Dark channels!!!!

[grandlotus]

I like that you started with a "bottom line up front" introduction. Please keep it up - makes more likely to keep watching.

[richardjones]

How did North Korea acquire any American made bombs?

[LtKrunchy]

Did North Korea actually acquire a GBU-28 or was that supposed to be South Korea?!?

[brisbanekilarny]

One of the bombs in the video was the MOAB and it is so big it is dropped out the back of a cargo plain. It was used in Afghanistan to destroy a series of underground caves.

[tomato]

These monster weapons that appear in the media make me wonder what they're NOT showing us.

[jondoh.]

Penetrating concrete 15 m deep is reliable. 30m and 60m depth is a joke.

[steffenjespersen]

60m of concrete is very impressive, they don't say it is reinforced concrete but still very impressive.

[rickwhite]

These bombs are effective against facilities right under the bombs. Not against facilities far inside mountains.

[Charlee]

in WWII, German U-boat pens had at least 2, sometimes 3, thick reinforced concrete roofs with a 6 - 8 foot gap between them. The large bombs dropped by the British or US would detonate on the 1st, leaving the 2nd & 3rd undamaged.

[georgewbushcenterforintell]

One of the crazy ideas from Northrup was a bomb that would actually not detonate on impact but would use a drill like out of the teenage mutant ninja turtles cartoon to drill into the bunker through the defences and explode when it reaches it destination underground.

[michaelspencer]

That's how girls used to call me back in college

[rosscollingwood]

A powerful weapon indeed, but that's an unfortunate set of initials. I mean, imagine a commander giving the order to go ahead and "...hit them with a mop!" 🤣🤣🤣

[Michursky]

concrete technology may actually develop way faster than bunkerbusters

[kurtkaster]

200 feet of concrete? I don't believe that. 20 feet sure. A 20 story building tall solid block of concrete, no way.

[SJR_Media_Group]

*_Former Boeing... when most people hear or read the word "BOEING" they think commercial aircraft_* ...

Boeing is largest producer of commercial aircraft. But they also make military aircraft. No one ever connects Boeing to Bombs. But, JDAM kits that turn dumb gravity bombs into smart weapons was developed by Boeing. The MOP (Massive Ordinance Penetrator) is also a bomb developed by Boeing. It is so massive only 2 aircraft in our inventory can carry them; B2 and B52.

Glad to see research into smaller Penetrators that can be carried by F-35's, F/A-18's, F-15's. Certainly get more bang for your buck. Smaller Penetrator probably won't go through 200 feet of concrete like their bigger brother the MOP, but they will fill in the gap for more smaller weapons. Save the big one for really important targets.

They have tested several models. A rocket assisted model can reach supersonic speeds and can punch through more concrete than a pure gravity design.