ISIS hammered as US drops biggest non-nuclear weapon ever: 21,000lb bomb is used in anger for the first time to obliterate jihadists' caves in Afghanistan

ISIS hammered as US drops biggest non-nuclear weapon ever: 21,000lb bomb is used in anger for the first time to obliterate jihadists' caves in Afghanistan

The United States has dropped its largest non-nuclear weapon after it targeted ISIS caves in Afghanistan. The military used a GBU-43 bomb - which weighs a staggering 21,000lbs - and the radius from the blast is believed to more than 300 metres. It has been described as the 'mother of all bombs' and the Pentagon today confirmed that it was dropped in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province. The action is believed to be the first time the non-nuclear weapon has been used in a combat situation. It has been reported that a MC-130 aircraft released the weapon at 7pm local time. White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters that MOAB is 'a large, powerful and accurately delivered weapon' whose use was intended to collapse underground spaces used by ISIS terrorists to move freely and attack U.S. and allied troops.

How the Mother of All Bombs kills people: Vaporzied bodies, crushed internal organs and suffocated to death... while anyone who survives is left psychologically scarred for life

• ·         The  US dropped its largest non-nuclear weapon on ISIS in Afghanistan
  ·         GBU-43 bomb weighs 21,600 pounds, is 30 feet long, contains 11 tons of explosives
  ·         Unleashes huge explosive forces in the seconds after detonation - leveling buidings, tunnels and causing fireball which incinerates anyone 
  ·         Trump pledged in 2015 that if he became president he would 'bomb the s**t out of ' ISIS 
  
  
  he GBU-43, otherwise known as the Mother of All Bombs, or MOAB unleashes a devastating fireball that incinerates and vaporizes anything within 300 feet when it first detonates.
  In the milliseconds following the initial blast in Afghanistan, all the oxygen would have been sucked out of the tunnels and for hundreds of feet around, literally sucking the life out of ISIS terrorists, suffocating them as their lungs imploded.
  Then, in a flash the fiery shockwave would have blasted outwards at the speed of sound for up to a mile, causing huge concussive injuries to anyone caught in its path, leveling buildings and trees.
  
  
  
  
  Huge: The MOAB test fired in 2003 shortly before final preparations for it to be loaded onto an MC-130 attack aircraft
  Ears would have been left bleeding and internal organs battered by the staggering force of the blast.
  Anyone caught inside the tunnels would have been crushed as the force of 19,000 pounds of highly complex explosives caused them to collapse on the ISIS terrorists.
  Anyone left alive would have been shocked and left in awe by the ferocity of the blast - the psychological scars staying with them forever.  
  Its frightening  power was unleashed by the United States for the first time on Thursday when it was dropped on an ISIS camp in Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province, in order to obliterate underground tunnels used by the terrorists.

A crater left by the blast is believed to be more than 300 feet wide after it exploded just six feet above the ground. Anyone at the blast site was vaporized.

The energy released by the nearly 19,000 pounds of highly complex explosive, would have caused a barometric shock wave known as 'overpressure' that moves at the speed of sound away from ground zero.

Classed as a thermobaric bomb - 'thermo' for heat and 'baric' for pressure, the MOAB features a two stage detonation powered by H6 explosive which contains powdered aluminum.

The first blast detonates and spreads highly flammable aluminum dust and the second is the baric blast - which literally sucks oxygen out from cave tunnels before rapidly becoming an expanding shock wave.

Both the implosion and the blast wave cause massive internal damage to anyone who has not been already been incinerated by the detonation, with most injuries to hollow organs such as the ears, lungs and stomach.

Anyone in the tunnels who did not have the life sucked out them would have then been crushed to death by the sheer force of the explosion. 

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF A MOAB EXPLODED OVER TIMES SQUARE?

An explosion in the Afghan desert is one thing. To bring things closer to home, what would be the effect of a MOAB detonation on Times Square?

1: Laser guided and parachuted down onto the Crossroads of The World, the MOAB would technically explode as an airburst weapon, albeit from six-feet and not thousands, like a nuclear bomb.

The fireball radius would be 300-feet, incinerating every person and obliterating Times Square's famous jumbotrons and billboards.

2: As the bomb ignites the alumimum dust and nearly 19,000 pounds of explosives a shock wave sucks the air from another 160-feet of prime Manhattan real estate and destroying Broadway. Concrete buildings are severely damaged and fatalities are also close to 100 percent here.

3: The dissapated air blast continues on for another 300-feet, damaging more residential buildings and causing injury to anyone caught up in the blast and more fatalities.

4: People up to 330-feet away from Ground Zero would suffer 3rd degree burns and some would suffer the loss of their limbs.

The NukeMap estimates casualties for the blast to be 2,600 and injuries to be 2,380 - but at any one time there are up to 10,000 to 15,000 people in the center of Times Square, so these figures are conservative.

MOAB: The Mother of All Bombs - otherwise known as the GBU-43 would obliterate most of Times Square with a yield blast of 0.011 KT

Sheer power: The effects of a MOAB detonation are explained below - 1: FireBall - 2 - Air Blast - 3 - Continuing Air Blast and 4 - Burn injuries

However, with a yield blast of 0.011 KT the MOAB pales in comparison to even the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima - Little Boy - which had a yield of 15 KT.  Above is a simulation if that nuclear device was dropped on Times Square