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at the pentagon tonight. good evening, when the u.s. air force tested this bomb in 2003, the club that resulted reached 10,000 feet in the air. this weapon was designed for the iraq war but never used on the battlefield until the day. we have the greatest military in the world, and they ve done their job as usual. at 7:32:00 a.m., they drop the largest nonnuclear weapon in the u.s. military has ever used in combat. the gbu-43, a 21,000-pound bomb known as the mother of all bombs are massive ordnance air blast. described a complex of isis tunnels. we targeted a system of tunnels and caves that mattis fighters used to move around freely. the united states takes the fight against isis very seriously, and we must deny them operational space, which we did. singh the top general in
forces group based out of the air force base, it is interesting to point out, it is clear this moab b bomb was tested, this 21,000 palm was tested in 2003. the air force used a mc-130, it is basically pushed out of the fact of the c-130, the largest weapon, 21,000-pound bomb, largest nonnuclear weapon in the air force arsenal. it s blast radius, just to give a sense of the size and scope of the weapon is 1 mile wide, so a blast radius of 1 mile. it is hard to imagine how you can minimize any sort of civilian casualties in that area, this is a mountain area on the edge of pakistan. it is an area with lots of tunnels, as we mentioned, and it also comes as the president announced yesterday that h.r. mcmaster, his national security advisor, would be
the gbu-43 had to wait years for its first use. during the bush administration, it replaced the blu-82, which until then was our biggest bomb. the blu-82 was used frequently in vietnam. the military ace name for it was the daisy cutter. not the baby killer. not the family killer. not the village killer. the daisy cutter. the military s nicknames for bombs are designed to do two things. impress you with something about the bomb. its precision, its power, its enormity. but the best military names for weapons and bombs are designed to inspire awe and affection. and so the bomb that the bush and obama administration refused to use and has now been used by the trump administration is called the mother of all bombs.
intelligence service often vetted by state actors like russia. i reject the idea that assange is a russian asset. do you understand why you re a suspect? i understand why i have been blamed. but there is no evidence. everything here was just happenstance? yes, absolutely. the irony of roger stone rejecting a conspiracy theory. and so today, april 13th, 2017, was the day that america woke up to the sudden knowledge that bombs have mothers. that all of the conventional nonnuclear bombs in the american military arsenal have one big beautiful mother. and there she is. the bomb s official name for bookkeeping purposes in the military is the gbu-43. the letters on the side of the bomb describe its function, what you can expect from it. massive ordnance air blast.