earth penetrator weapon
1Massive Ordnance Penetrator — The Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) GBU 57A/B is a project by the U.S. Air Force to develop a massive, precision guided, 30,000 pound (13,608 kg) bunker buster bomb.[1] This is substantially larger than the deepest penetrating bunker… …
2Massive Ordnance Penetrator — Une Massive Ordnance Penetrator du Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) est déchargée au White Sands Missile Range, Nouveau Mexique. (Photo prise avant le 15 mars 2007) Le projet de bombe Massive Ordnance Penetrator GBU 57A/B (MOP), lancé par l …
3Nuclear bunker buster — Subsidence craters left over after underground nuclear (test) explosions Bunker busting nuclear weapons, also known as earth penetrating weapons (EPW), are a type of nuclear weapon designed to penetrate into soil, rock, or concrete to deliver a… …
4Mushroom cloud — created by smoke billows Ascending cloud from Redoubt Vol …
5MGM-31 Pershing — Pershing was a family of solid fueled two stage medium range ballistic missiles designed and built by Martin Marietta to replace the Redstone missile as the United States Army s primary theater level weapon. The Pershing systems lasted over 30… …
6Nuclear weapons and the United States — United States Nuclear program start date 21 October 1939 First nuclear weapon test 16 July 1945 …
7List of nuclear weapons — This is a list of nuclear weapons ordered by state and then type within the states.United StatesNote: US nuclear weapons of all types (bombs, warheads, shells, and others) are numbered in the same sequence starting with the Mark 1 and (as of… …
8B83 nuclear bomb — The B83 nuclear weapon is a variable yield gravity bomb developed by the United States in the late 1970s, entering service in 1983. It was based partly on the earlier B77 program, which was terminated due to cost overruns. The first underground… …
9Samuel Cohen — Samuel T. Cohen (born 1921 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American physicist who is known for inventing the W70 warhead and the enhanced neutron weapon or neutron bomb. In the 1990s he advocated investigation of terrorist threats like red mercury… …
10W86 — The W86 was an American thermonuclear warhead with earth penetrating characteristics (see Nuclear bunker buster) which was intended for use on the Pershing II IRBM missile.The W86 design was canceled in September 1980 when the Pershing II missile …
