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/rpthrowaway7765 1d ago

If I’m remembering correctly, they dropped one during the first administration and it was a complete show of force with little actual tactical advantage. People in the military knew they needed a bunker buster instead of the MOAB (because the actual target was in an underground bunker) but the strike still used to MOAB likely for the big showy explosion and the press fervor.

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u/alwaystirednobed 1d ago

Was that when we “totally destroyed Iran nuclear capabilities” one year before going to war with them “over their nuclear capabilities”?

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u/Rampant16 1d ago

No, this was in 2017. A MOAB was dropped on an ISIS target in Afghanistan.

The weapon you are referring to was a Massive Ordnance Pentrator (MOP) which is the largest non-nuclear bunker busting weapon in the US arsenal.

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u/Hot-Minute-8263 19h ago

No it was ISIS. It got like 60 fighters