GBU-43/B MOAB

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The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB, , colloquially given as the Mother of All Bombs) is a large-yield bomb, developed for the United States military by Albert L. Weimorts, Jr. of the Air Force Research Laboratory. It was first tested in 2003.

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