Lots of room for confusion when comparing US / UK bomb weights due to our different definitions of the ‘ton’…
…an ‘Imperial’ (long) ton being 2240 pounds and a ‘US’ (short) ton being just 2000 pounds!
According to Wikipedia the MOAB weighs in at 22,600lb with a explosive filling of 18,700lb which would make it both the heaviest (conventional) bomb dropped in combat and the one with the most explosive filling.
The ‘blast yield’ of the MOAB is quoted as equivalent to 11 ‘tons’ (US tons?) of TNT but that is achieved with a lighter filling of a more powerful explosive.
The thing that is strange about the use of the MOAB in Afghanistan is that it was stated to have been used against a tunnel or cave complex but the MOAB is not designed to penetrate deep into the ground before exploding (like a Grand Slam is designed to).
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If only we all used the metric system!!
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