USA super bomb to be ready by 2010

The Pentagon announced that a 14 ton anti-refuge super bomb could be ready by 2010 and will cost the US Treasury about $ 88 million.

It is a six metre device of a project called Massive Artillery and explode only after penetrating over 60 metres in the place of the impact.

The Defence Department spoke of All Bombs Mother or (Conventional) and argued the missile will be charged with 2,400 kilos of explosives, twice more than previous BLU-109 prototype tested in 2003.

The bomb was designed to be launched from B-52 or B-2 planes but the last ones are not ready for such mission since they do not count with an optimised radars-evasion system, noted sources.

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