US Air Force tests ‘mother of all bombs’ as message to Iraq

THE US Air Force has dropped a 21,000-pound MOAB bomb on a range in northwest Florida in a successful first live test of a powerful new weapon nicknamed the “mother of all bombs.”

Defence officials suggested the test was a message to Iraq ahead of a possible war about the might of the US military.

“Obviously, anything we have in the arsenal, anything that's in almost any stage of development, could be used,” against Iraq, said General Richard Myers, chairman of the US military's Joint Chiefs of Staff.