{"id":149170,"date":"2024-11-12T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/could-f-15-eagle-retrofit-30000-lb-mop\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T02:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T16:00:13","slug":"could-the-f-15-eagle-be-retrofitted-to-carry-the-30000-lb-massive-ordinance-penetrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=149170","title":{"rendered":"Could The F-15 Eagle Be Retrofitted To Carry The 30,000 lb Massive Ordinance Penetrator?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/a><\/span> recently dropped its largest bunker-buster bomb on         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2034181\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-b-2-bombers-strike-houthi-targets-yemen\/\" >underground Houthi targets using the B-2 Spirit bomber<\/a><\/span> in combat for the first time in seven years. That bomb,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2034844\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-aircraft-carry-us-air-force-30000-pound-massive-ordnance-penetrator\/\" >the Massive Ordinance Penetrator (or MOD), is only carried by the B-2 Spirit<\/a><\/span> (although the B-52 Stratofortress and B-1 Lancer also have the heft to carry it). That attack on the Houthis was likely a warning to Iran. Since then, an article appeared in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/opinion\/article-827375\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Jerusalem Post<\/a> asking whether Israel&#8217;s             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60440\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-15\/\"  >F-15<\/a><\/span> Eagles (called F-15I Ra&#8217;ams in Israel) could be retrofitted to carry the bomb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The F-15EX could theoretically carry the MOP with some modifications but with sharply reduced range and other issues.<\/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":[396,7038,2038,2125,240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-b-2-spirit-bomber","category-b-52","category-f-15","category-north-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149170","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=149170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149171,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149170\/revisions\/149171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}