raises the question of the u.s. moving forward an what results will with see from the blast. staggering is about u.s. resolve in afghanistan. thank you nick, so much for that. so exactly what is this mother of all bombs? they stand for massive ordinance air blast bomb, the biggest conventional meaning non-nuclear in u.s. arsenal, 30-feet wing along, 19,000 pounds of explosives, it is gps guided but so big it has to be dropped from a mc-130 cargo plane. it s intended for use against surface targets unlike the bunker penetrating bomb which is
thank you. so what exactly is the mother of all bombs it stands for massive ordinance air blast bomb. it is the biggest ever used in battle. 22,000 pounds, gps guided but so big it has to be dropped from an mc-130 cargo plane. it is intended for use against surface targets. u.s. intersection agencies were not the only one whose intercepted trump campaign
briefing. this will happen minutes after we learned that the u.s. dropped the largest nonnuclear upon in eastern afghanistan. 21,000 pounds. they call it the mother of all bombs. you can expect sean spicer to step up and be peppered with questions about what is going on there. we have not heard reaction from the white house. we ll take this to the couch. bill hemmer is with us. you know this area well. i had the great fortune of watching the u.s. military in the early days testify war on terror. knowing this has happened and you know about tunnels, the caves, the villages. this is a file picture of the bomb we re being told. this is dropped from an mc-130 air force plane. it s big. lumbers through the sky. the c stands for cargo.
what we can tell you, sean spicer was asked whether the president was the one who ordered this bombing in afghanistan. but we re told, in fact, general john nicholson had all the authority he needed to use this weapon and it was his choice to use what is known as you mentioned the mother of all bombs, a massive air blast. this is the first time it s been used in combat. it has an radius of one mile wide. it is a 21,000 pound bomb. it is pushed out the back of an mc-130 plane. it is gps guided. and in sense, it would wipe out those tunnels where u.s. forces have been trying to find isis. this is the same area along the pakistan border as really tora bora where al qaeda was hiding for all those years.
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