{"id":11186,"date":"2023-05-23T06:53:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T01:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11186"},"modified":"2025-03-30T01:04:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T19:34:40","slug":"what-is-gbu-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-gbu-57\/","title":{"rendered":"What is GBU-57?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About GBU-57:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is known as the \u201c<strong>Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP)&#8221;.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>GPS-guided<\/strong>, <strong>earth-penetrating strike weapon<\/strong> for use against hard and deeply buried targets.<\/li>\n<li>MOP is one of the <strong>most powerful non-nuclear bombs in the world<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>manufactured by Boeing<\/strong> and <strong>used by the United States Air Force<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>used to destroy deeply entrenched enemy bunkers<\/strong> such as those concealing a supply of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The bomb is <strong>20.5 feet long<\/strong> with a <strong>diameter of 31.5 inches.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Weight: 14,000 kg<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>warhead case is made<\/strong> from a special high-performance <strong>steel alloy<\/strong> that can reportedly <strong>penetrate up to 200 feet of concrete<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>MOP is <strong>carried by the B-2 Spirit bomber,<\/strong> which can carry two of the bombs at a time\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>bomb is equipped with a delayed-action fuse<\/strong>, allowing the warhead to survive the impact, not detonating until the bomb has stopped traveling underground.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What are Weapons of mass destruction (WMD)?<\/h3>\n<p>A weapon of mass destruction is a nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological, or other device that is intended to harm a large number of people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/news\/world\/us-iran-tension-us-military-designed-nuclear-bombs-to-hit-targets-like-iran-underground-nuclear-sites-photos-ebrahim-raisi-jcopa-iran-nuclear-sites-2023-05-22-871992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Amid tensions, US military designs bomb to hit Iran underground nuclear sites I Photos emerge<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GBU-57 is a GPS-guided, earth-penetrating strike weapon for use against hard and deeply buried targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}