{"id":4999,"date":"2017-04-13T17:19:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T17:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=4999"},"modified":"2022-01-27T11:24:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T09:24:51","slug":"us-drops-largest-non-nuclear-bomb-on-afghanistan-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/us-drops-largest-non-nuclear-bomb-on-afghanistan-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"US drops largest non-nuclear bomb ever on Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>US drops &#8216;mother of all bombs&#8217; in Afghanistan, largest non-nuclear weapon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US has dropped the &#8216;largest ever non-nuclear bomb&#8217; against a series of ISIS cave complexes in eastern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the Department of Defense has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The GBU-43\/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb \u2014 nicknamed the &#8220;Mother of All Bombs&#8221; (MOAB) \u2014 was dropped in at 7pm local time today on 13 April 2017.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Pentagon confirmed the strike was carried out using a 21,000lb weapon to target extremists in the Achin district of Nangarhar province in Afghanist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bomb was dropped by an MC-130 aircraft, operated by Air Force Special Operations Command, according to the military sources.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the&nbsp;first time MOAB has been used in the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A MOAB is a 21,600-pound, GPS-guided munition that is America\u2019s most powerful non-nuclear bomb. It was first developed during the 2003 Iraq War and is intended to target large below-surface areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US drops &#8216;mother of all bombs&#8217; in Afghanistan, largest non-nuclear weapon The US has dropped the &#8216;largest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5001,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124,1,125],"tags":[9,137,214,431,75,14,7,63],"class_list":["post-4999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","category-united-states","tag-afghanistan","tag-asia","tag-bombing","tag-c-130","tag-conflict","tag-isis","tag-u-s","tag-weapons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/moab.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1iD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999","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=4999"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8246,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999\/revisions\/8246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}