{"id":303708,"date":"2017-04-14T09:15:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T08:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-drops-largest-non-nuclear-bomb-in-afghanistan-after-green-beret-killed\/"},"modified":"2017-04-14T09:15:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T08:15:36","slug":"us-drops-largest-non-nuclear-bomb-in-afghanistan-after-green-beret-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-drops-largest-non-nuclear-bomb-in-afghanistan-after-green-beret-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"US Drops Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb in Afghanistan after Green Beret Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>The U.S. military dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, just days after a Green Beret was killed fighting ISIS there, a U.S. defense official confirmed to Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>The GBU-43B, a 21,000-pound conventional bomb, was dropped on an ISIS tunnel complex in Nangarhar Province.<\/p>\n<p>The MOAB &#8212; Massive Ordinance Air Blast &#8212; is also known as the \u201cMother Of All bombs.\u201d It was first tested in 2003, but hadn&#8217;t been used in combat before Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The MOAB is so massive it had to be dropped out of the back of a U.S. Air Force C-130 cargo plane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We kicked it out the back door,&#8221; one U.S. official told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>For comparison to the 21,000-pound MOAB, each Tomahawk cruise missile launched at a Syrian military air base last week was 1,000-pounds each.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As [ISIS&#8217;] losses have mounted, they are using IEDs, bunkers and tunnels to thicken their defense,&#8221; Gen. John Nicholson, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said in a statement. &#8220;This is the right munition to reduce these obstacles and maintain the momentum of our offensive against [ISIS].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The statement said U.S. forces took every precaution to avoid civilian casualties.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Comments<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/us-drops-largest-non-nuclear-bomb-in-afghanistan-after-green-beret-killed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, just days after a Green Beret was killed fighting ISIS there, a U.S. defense official confirmed to Fox News. The GBU-43B, a 21,000-pound conventional bomb, was dropped on an ISIS tunnel complex in Nangarhar Province. The MOAB &#8212; Massive Ordinance Air Blast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-303708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}