"First on CNN: US drops largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan"

 
 アメリカ合州国軍がアフガニスタンのISISを目標に爆撃したとCNNが報道している。
 By Barbara Starr and Ryan Browne, CNN
 Updated 0240 GMT (1040 HKT) April 14, 2017

Washington (CNN) — The US military dropped America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets in Afghanistan Thursday, the first time this type of weapon has been used in battle, according to US officials.

A GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), nicknamed the "mother of all bombs," was dropped at 7:32 p.m. local time, according to four US military officials with direct knowledge of the mission. A MOAB is a 30-foot-long, 21,600-pound, GPS-guided munition.

President Donald Trump called it "another successful job" later Thursday.

The bomb was dropped by an MC-130 aircraft, stationed in Afghanistan and operated by Air Force Special Operations Command, Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump told CNN.