{"id":1713,"date":"2015-04-04T21:23:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T21:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2015-04-04T21:23:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T21:23:02","slug":"us-tested-biggest-bunker-buster-bomb-in-its-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/us-tested-biggest-bunker-buster-bomb-in-its-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"US tested biggest &#8216;bunker-buster&#8217; bomb in its arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The US military has tested the biggest \u201cbunker-buster\u201d bomb in its arsenal, a weapon designed to penetrate targets buried deep underground, a report says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> reported on Friday that the 30,000-pound (15 tons or 13,608 kilograms) device, known as the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), was tested in mid-January.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber, which\u00a0took off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, dropped the upgraded precision-guided bomb at a testing site at an undisclosed location in the United States, unnamed military officials told the<em>Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to officials, the Pentagon was largely satisfied with the results of the January test, but work on improving the weapon still continues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/US-MOP.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1715\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/US-MOP.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"US-MOP\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/US-MOP.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/US-MOP.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US military declined to comment on any improvements to the Massive Ordnance Penetrator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States military prepares for a broad range of potential threats to include developing munitions designed to address deeply buried and hardened facilities,\u201d Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren said.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Journal <\/em>report said that work to improve the design, guidance systems and anti-jamming capabilities on the world\u2019s largest conventional bomb began last year.<\/p>\n<p>GJH\/RT\/PTV<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military has tested the biggest \u201cbunker-buster\u201d bomb in its arsenal, a weapon designed to penetrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,125],"tags":[6,5,31,7,63],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-defense","tag-military","tag-missile","tag-u-s","tag-weapons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/US-B2-MOP.jpg?fit=670%2C345&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-rD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1717,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/1717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}