06/18/2025

Understanding the Massive Ordnance Penetrator

It's the U.S. military's bunker-busting bomb

In the event the United States enters the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, a likely focus will be on degrading or destroying Tehran’s underground facilities that enrich nuclear material.

That task would most likely fall to a small number of Air Force strategic bombers that are capable of delivering 30,000-pound precision-guided bombs designed to destroy subterranean targets.

This bomb, the GBU-57, is better known as a “bunker buster” or the Massive Ordnance Penetrator.

Please select this link to read the complete article from The Washington Post.