America drops "largest non-nuclear bomb in history" on Afganistan

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I don't understand why an in air detonation bomb is being used on a tunnel/cave complex. Seems that tunnels and caves calls for bunker busters.

Maybe they had an outdoor picnic scheduled.

It might be not strictly a conventional bomb, but what is called a fuel air bomb, which relies on sucking oxygen from surrounding air to feed the atomized fuel surrounding the bomb, this could asphyxiate people trapped in aconfined space such as a non-airtight bunker.

I could be wrong, but I don't think the MOAB is a thermobaric weapon. The Ruskies FOAB on the other hand is suspected of being a thermobaric design, but I don't think that has been confirmed.

My dad can tell you what a fuel air weapon can do. He was in a couple of LZ's cleared with BLU-82 Daisy Cutters in the late part of US involvement in Viet Nam.