The Weekly Debrief: Penetrating The Seemingly Implausible Israeli MOP Proposal

A GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator stored in a B-2 weapons bay.
Credit: U.S. Air Force
A widely published story last week about two U.S. lawmakers seeking to export the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) to Israel seems to have a factual hole the size of a 30,000-lb. bomb crater. Even if Congress approves the transfer, Israel ostensibly lacks the means to deliver the MOP against...

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