Current 'bunker busters' don't go deep enough
(NEWSER) - The US military's largest conventional bomb is the 30,000-pound "bunker buster," or Massive Ordinance Penetrator, designed to take out fortified nuclear facilities in Iran or North Korea. Now, the Pentagon has decided it's not big enough, and is asking for $82 million to make the bomb penetrate deeper into concrete, rock, and steel, reports the Wall Street Journal . "We're still trying to develop them," defense chief Leon Panetta told the newspaper. "I think we're pretty close." More»
