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The US Military’s Bombs and Missiles, and How They're Used in Combat
Some are mounted on the Navy’s Vertical Launch Anti-Submarine Rocket carried by cruisers and destroyers. The largest of these bombs is the MK 48 Heavyweight Torpedo, which is equipped with a 650 ...
US Navy Super Hornets launched history's 'largest airstrike' from an aircraft carrier — 125,000 pounds of munitions, admiral says
Super Hornet fighter jets from the USS Harry S. Truman bombed ISIS targets in Somalia in February, a defense official told ...
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US Confirms Largest Airstrike Ever Launched From an Aircraft Carrier
US launched the largest 125,000-pound airstrike over Somalia, marking the largest from a single U.S. aircraft carrier.
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The US military set off its largest nuclear explosion in testing 69 years ago, but scientists had no idea the blast would be that big
Dozens of nuclear tests were carried out by the US in the Pacific between 1946 and 1958. The largest of these was the detonation of the Castle Bravo device on March 1, 1954. It was 1,000 times ...
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US to build new nuclear gravity bomb
The United States has the world's second largest nuclear weapon inventory ... is aimed at providing the US military with a new nuclear gravity bomb without increasing the size of the overall ...