{"id":30636,"date":"2017-04-14T09:22:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T13:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30636"},"modified":"2017-04-14T09:22:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T13:22:49","slug":"how-much-did-it-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30636","title":{"rendered":"How Much Did It Cost?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The Daily Caller<\/a> posted a story about the MOAB (Mother Of All Bombs) recently used in Afghanistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The giant bomb U.S. forces dropped Thursday on an ISIS training camp in Afghanistan did not cost $314 million to develop, or $16 million per unit as reported by multiple news outlets.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every news report about cost of the \u201cMother of All Bombs\u201d\u00a0relied on a misreading of a 2011 article or a dubious internet website that InfoWars once linked to with a\u00a0\u201chealthy bit of skepticism.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The actual cost of the bomb is unknown. The actual cost of the program isn\u2019t publicly available because the Mother of All Bombs, officially known as GBU-43<\/a> or the Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB), is manufactured by the military and not a private defense company.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article goes on to explain that the cost estimates the news media is making are based on the cost of the cost of the Air Force\u2019s biggest bunker busting bomb, the 5,300 pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), or GBU-57<\/a>, which is built by private defense contractor<\/a> Boeing Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article further explains:<\/p>\n

While the two bomb types are related, they serve different functions \u2014 the MOP is designed to destroy underground bunkers as deep as 200 feet below the surface, while the MOAP<\/a> wipes out everything on the surface within a mile radius. The MOAB, like its Daisy Cutter<\/a> predecessor, can only be dropped out of a C-130 built by Lockheed Martin<\/a>, and the MOP is deployed from the B-2, a Boeing aircraft.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many\u00a0news organizations, including TIME<\/a> and CNBC, also cited\u00a0Deagel.com, a site with extensive lists of weapons assets owned by multiple countries, which claims<\/a> the MOAB costs $16 million per unit, the same amount as the reported cost of the MOP.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deagel links to no source to verify its information. The site\u2019s IP is registered to an address in Spain,\u00a0and the most press they\u2019ve received was\u00a0for a 2015\u00a0prediction<\/a>\u00a0that the U.S. population would drop by more than 80 percent by 2025 due to an economic and cultural collapse. \u201cThe\u00a0American collapse is set\u00a0to be far worse than the Soviet Union<\/a>\u2019s one [sic],\u201d the forecast said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whatever the cost of the bomb, it effectively sent a strong message to those who seek to harm America or its soldiers. We will fight back.<\/p>\n

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