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November 08, 2004
State-of-the-Art Bang-Bang*
  
The Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP (as in, I guess, "mop up the mess in one colossal detonation") is to be 40% bigger than the puny, sand-kicked-in-its-face wussyboy Mother of All Bombs.
Despite its ridiculous size, it's being built long and skinny (hmmmm...) so that it can actually be carried by the B-2 or B-52.  Unlike the MOAB, which is so fat it can only be carted around in cargo planes.
H/t Garfield Ridge, who reminds us that erections lasting longer than four hours may require medical treatment.
Don't I know it, Dave.  Don't I know it.
*  Where?