USAF Ordering 10 More Massive Ordnance Penetrator Bombs
Credit: Boeing B-52H drops a GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator during flight testing at the White Sands Missile Range in 2009: Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Boeing’s ordnance shop in St. Charles, Missouri, is set to continue producing the U.S. military’s largest non-nuclear bomb, the 30,000-lb. GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP). The U.S. Air Force says in an Oct. 28 contracting notice that it intends to order another 10 of the huge bunker-busters...
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