BREAKING NEWS – U.S. drops 'mother of all bombs' on ISIS:

Daily Mail ^ | 4/13/2017 | David Martosko

[bar sin·is·ter]

The United States has dropped its largest non-nuclear weapon after it targeted ISIS a network of caves and tunnels in eastern Afghanistan.

U.S. forces used a GPS-guided GBU-43 bomb, which is 30 feet long and weighs a staggering 21,600 pounds.

A crater left by the blast is believed to be more than 300 meters wide. It has been described as the 'Mother Of All Bombs' – a play on the 'MOAB' acronym, which actually stands for 'Massive Ordnance Air Burst.'

[Major Matt Mason]

Hillary? No, that would mean we are dropping sides of beef on the enemy.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Just showin’ ISIS a little love.

[tumblindice]

That'll toast a few shemaghs.

[Finalapproach29er]

I think that was “only” a Daisy Cutter,which is a fraction in size/weight.

[billyboy15]

This is the first time for this one, which is 21,000 lbs of high explosives. I believe the ones you mentioned​ were 15,000 lb.

[minnesota_bound]

Hard to tell what damage it did as there is a crater in the way of the tunnel......

[DoughtyOne]

Someone else may have done this on this thread, but I wanted to add this just in case.

This MOAB bomb was estimated to carry 21,600 lbs of TNT. LINK

That is 10.53 tons of TNT. (1 ton = 2000 pounds)

Definition of a kiloton: LINK

The Hiroshima bomb was pegged at 15 thousand tons of TNT and the Nagasaki bomb was pegged at 21 thousand tons of TNT. LINK