The United States Department of Defense has confirmed that U.S. forces dropped one of biggest non-nuclear weapons in its arsenal Thursday in a large-scale strike against ISIS.
Dubbed “The Mother of All Bombs,” the MOAB GBU-43 was dropped from a plane over the Nangarhar Province in East Afghanistan, hitting an ISIS cave system.
Here’s video of the MOAB doing a slight bit damage…
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DOD confrms it dropped GBU-43 “Mother of All Bombs” on #ISIS caves in #Afghanistan at 7 pm local Thursday
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Here’s an bird’s-eye view of the air strike taken from the plane: