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  • initialism US, military Massive Ordnance AirBurst (informally the Mother Of All Bombs)

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  • It's reportedly four times more powerful than the U. S.'s version, known as the MOAB (mother of all bombs), which was the most powerful non-nuclear weapon ever designed - until now.

    The Father Of All Bombs 2007

  • It's reportedly four times more powerful than the U. S.'s version, known as the MOAB (mother of all bombs), which was the most powerful non-nuclear weapon ever designed - until now.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • GRANGE: Yes, this, the MOAB is a 21,000 pound bomb improvement of the 15,000 pound Vietnam era daisy cutter.

    CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2003 2003

  • The so-called MOAB or the BLU-82, which is a 15,000-pound weapon, are surely weapons that are available to us to use really anywhere it's appropriate.

    CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2003 2003

  • It turns out -- there was a lot of speculation at the time because of this huge cloud that this might have been that so - called MOAB, the "mother of all bombs," the 21,000-pound bomb, which is not really suitable for an urban area.

    CNN Transcript Mar 27, 2003 2003

  • Our senior Pentagon correspondent, Jamie McIntyre, has now confirmed that the U.S. military has moved its newest and biggest bomb out here to the Persian Gulf, the so-called MOAB, a 21,000-pound bomb, the mother of all bombs, as it's nicknamed.

    CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2003 2003

  • We have the MOAB, which is probably damn close to what the Russians tested.

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2009

  • The MOAB is the most lethal conventional weapon ever constructed, yet it has been deployed in actual combat, I believe, only 2 or three times.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • "We have the MOAB, which is probably damn close to what the Russians tested."

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2009

  • "We have the MOAB, which is probably damn close to what the Russians tested."

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2009

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  • spotted it pronounced as Moe ab

    May 30, 2017