“The US Air Force has released a remarkable video showing a B2 bomber dropping its highest-powered 'bunker buster' amid rising tensions with Iran.

The video, which is the most high-definition ever released of this kind of bomb, shows two GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOPs) being employed against a ground targets at an undisclosed location.

Footage shows the 33,000lb bombs being dropped from the weapons bay of a B-52 [B-2] and disappearing deep into the earth before exploding in an enormous ball of flames.

The MOP is the most powerful non-nuclear bunker buster on earth and is precision guided using a GPS system…”

https://mol.im/a/7041391

Impressive. But it kinda looked CGI to me. Especially the B2.

It looks very real to me, maybe it's just the slo-mo for you.

Here's a higher resolution video. The OP link tops out at 576P, this at least has 1080P.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrBVudn-ev0

How deep? How wide? I'm going to need some Bomb Damage Assessment.

uh, how did the bomb change color?

the boms from the b2 are green, the bombs hitting the test range are black white and red

YT video is clearer. But the bombs change color from drop to just before impact.

At a cost of 3.5 million each. {Manufacturing cost per bomb}

They could use some ads on that page

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Originally posted by BigSwede:

They could use some ads on that page

One more. My ad blocker showed 41, so that wasn't the answer.

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Originally posted by Gear.Up:
It looks very real to me, maybe it's just the slo-mo for you.

Here's a higher resolution video. The OP link tops out at 576P, this at least has 1080P.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrBVudn-ev0

The first bomb "fins" deploy a few seconds after the bomb leaves the bay, but the second bomb was delayed why is that?

After each drop, the B2 drift higher That's a lot of weight off.

Clearly showing everyone what will happen very soon.

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Originally posted by FenderBender:
uh, how did the bomb change color?

My guess would be that the first part is just a stock clip and the second part is test video of the upgraded bomb.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by BigSwede:

They could use some ads on that page

One more. My ad blocker showed 41, so that wasn't the answer.