Boeing TO Develop the MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator)

Boeing is set to build the biggest bomb for the USAF, Called the MOP or Massive Ordnance Penetrator would weigh up to 30,000 lbs. The bomb will be designed to be carried by the B-2 or the B-52. The weapon is being designed to take out hardened targets like tunnels and bunkers.

The Boeing Co. has been tapped to design and test the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), a large bomb designed to penetrate and destroy hardened and deeply buried targets.

The Defense Department announced late Nov. 1 that the Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded a $20 million, multi-year contract to Boeing for the MOP program, which is funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). The initial increment of $500,000 is for work that is to be completed by February 2005.

The Air Force has said that MOP would be guided, weigh up to 30,000 pounds and be carried internally on the B-2 and B-52 bombers. The weapon would be used to destroy multi-story buildings with hardened bunkers and tunnels, targets believed to be proliferating in rogue states.

The Air Force had issued a broad agency announcement seeking proposals for MOP. The new effort is supposed to build on an earlier phase that aimed to perform such activities for MOP as defining the guidance kit packaging and assessing the potential to integrate the bomb onto the B-2 and B-52.

MOP

Massive Ordnance Penetrator!

Anybody else hearing heavy base-beats and a lot of wah-wah guitar?!?

At least MOAB was its own advertising slogan.

This is the ultimate bunker buster short of a mini-nuke, more can be found here,

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Good for use on all those underground nuclear facilities that Iran and North Korea have.

Sorry ABout that one P. I did not see it at all.

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FredT

[edit on 11/6/04 by FredT]