{"id":146017,"date":"2024-11-01T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-aircraft-carry-us-air-force-30000-pound-massive-ordnance-penetrator\/"},"modified":"2024-11-01T16:00:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T06:00:15","slug":"which-aircraft-can-carry-the-us-air-forces-30000-pound-massive-ordnance-penetrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=146017","title":{"rendered":"Which Aircraft Can Carry The US Air Force&#8217;s 30,000-Pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2034181\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-b-2-bombers-strike-houthi-targets-yemen\/\" >Air Force recently caused a stir online after it announced it had used B-2 Spirit bombers to drop the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP)<\/a><\/span> on underground Houthi targets in northern Yemen. The move put both the bomb and the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"540004\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/b-2-spirit-bomber\/\"  >B-2 Spirit Bomber<\/a><\/span> in the spotlight. But what aircraft can carry the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force&#8217;s<\/a><\/span> Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) &#8211; designed to penetrate and destroy the deepest of military targets hidden underground?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only the United States Air Force&#8217;s strategic bombers have the heft needed to carry the massive 30,000 lbs MOP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,7038,2038,412,7456,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-b-2-spirit-bomber","category-b-52","category-military","category-rockwell-b-1-lancer","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146018,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146017\/revisions\/146018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}