What does MOAB stand for?

Mother of All Bombs (slang for the MOAB weapon)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Channel One television reported the Russian bomb contains about 7 tonnes of high explosives compared with more than 8 tonnes of explosives in the US Massive Ordnance Air Blast nicknamed the Mother of All Bombs.

IP News Around The Globe: Nanotechnology For Non-Nuclear Bomb

The so-called Mother of all Bombs is the biggest weapon in America's arsenal,capable of detonating 21,000lb of explosives above the ground.

Russia boasts of testing 'the father of all bombs'

Massive Ordnance Air Blast, nicknamed the Mother Of All Bombs, is a large-yield satellite-guided, air-delivered bomb described as the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in history.

Russia tests powerful 'dad of all bombs'

The newly-released Massive Ordnance Air Blast - a weapon the troops have nicknamed the Mother Of All Bombs - packs the biggest punch of all.

Terrifying reality of shock and awe smashes into a stunned Baghdad

Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano "The mother of all bombs kills the mothers of all children.

What they said

REPORTERS told us to expect the Second Gulf War to begin with a flash of military lightning, the dropping of the Mother Of All Bombs, an unleashing of "shock and awe.

The fog of war envelops us all

It is no coincidence that the Americans recently put on a very public demonstration of their so-called Mother Of All Bombs - a fearsome 21,000lb device longer than a London bus.

Iraq will face 48 hours from hell; SADDAM'S LAST DAY how the most ...

It is officially designated the Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB), but it has come to be called unofficially the Mother of All Bombs, an allusion to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's claim before the 1991 Persian Gulf War that that conflict would be the "mother of all battles.

Officials hope test of bomb rattles Iraq