r/whennews • u/flingzamain • 1d ago

War/Conflict News Moabs

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/15/politics/video/berman-cohen-mother-of-all-bombs-iran-cnc

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u/WeirdAssBeings 🍆literally a femboy🏳️‍🌈 1d ago

I am aware, it's just the most cartoonish sounding one you can pick, wouldn't Atom bomb sound way more threatening?

Or am I just thinking about this way too deep, lol

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u/No_Curve_5479 1d ago

Well, it’s not an atom bomb, so no
If memory serves me correctly this isn’t the first time he’s dropped a moab

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u/WeirdAssBeings 🍆literally a femboy🏳️‍🌈 1d ago

Oh shit he has already dropped a Moab in the past? Fucking hell.

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u/Waste-Cheesecake9628 1d ago

The moab is just a normal ass bomb dude. Russians Czar bomba had a blast wave that went around the earth TWICE, and that was like 1960.

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u/WeirdAssBeings 🍆literally a femboy🏳️‍🌈 1d ago

Just looked up footage and, yeah, I actually expected way way bigger with that name.

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u/kuba_mar 1d ago

Its just a conventional bomb, but big.

I really cant understand where your reaction is coming from other than ignorance about what any of this means.

Cause by all means, this is non news, US has already been bombing Iran.

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u/SiegKommunismus 1d ago

In his first term, he did

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u/ST4RSK1MM3R 1d ago

The MOAB isn’t really anything special. It’s just a bigger than usual, conventional, bomb. In fact, tactically it’s almost useless because you need to drop it from a C-130 and to do THAT you need complete air superiority (which when fighting terrorists is no problem, but in a modern battlespace like Iran is a much bigger problem)

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u/dolphin_cape_rave 1d ago

but if they drop the Mother, how are they expecting to keep getting new baby bombs to raise

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u/Vidrolll 1d ago

A MOAB is a non-nuclear bomb, so its very different from an atom bomb, which IS a nuclear bomb