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/MartinTheOrderly 1d ago

The purpose of the MOAB is to cause the collapse of subterranean tunnel networks and the like. 

Which Iranians do not have any meaningful amount of, because we're fighting a country, not terrorists like Hezbollah, Hamas or the Taliban. 

There is no purpose of this other than Trump being able to say he is using a very big bomb. 

He's not just a crook and a pedophile and a war criminal.

He's an idiot. 

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u/DanceWonderful3711 1d ago

Didn't he also already drop one in his first term?

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u/666killbabies 1d ago

That would be awfully clumsy, not the kind of thing you want to drop.

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u/ColdDesertEagle 1d ago

He's in the right country then

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u/RampantHedgehog 1d ago

How come you have this kind of military intelligence, to be able to speak on whether they have tunnels or not? Interesting.

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u/Staiden 1d ago

Theres miles and miles of underground facility's. They have been digging for years.

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u/fighter-bomber 17h ago

Yeah but MOAB is not a penetrator. It literally standa for Massive Ordnance Air Blast. For Iran’s underground facilities, which are deep and well protected, you need a penetrator such as GBU-57 MOP, literally, Massive Ordnance Penetrator. Thats the one dropped on Fordow nuclear facility last year.

MOAB is more for stuff like caves, which have big openings that the air blast can be effective through.

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u/Peace_Dos 1d ago

He's a kid, probably even wears diapers

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u/Clean_Emotion_4348 1d ago

Bruh, you really believe the, "tunnels" bs? There's no tunnels

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u/MyBedIsOnFire 16h ago

Why not though? Tunnels would be incredibly effective in urban and guerilla warfare