Taxpayers To Spend More For Boeing Bombs

Published October 20, 2009 | By W. Leon Smith

Defense contractors Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman were given $51.9 million to build more bunker-busting bombs.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Defense contractors Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman were given $51.9 million to build more bunker-busting bombs.

The bombs are said to be the largest non-nuclear weapon in the U.S. arsenal.

When asked, the Pentagon said that the weapon could be used on Iran or North Korea, though specific targets were denied.

“I don’t think anybody can divine potential targets,” Geoff Morrell, Pentagon press secretary, told CBC News.

The bomb weighs the 13.6-tonne massive ordnance penetrator (MOP) making only one able to be delivered via a B-2 Stealth bomber.

President Barack Obama has kept the military option open against Iran while speaking in lighter tones than the previous administration.

The MOP bomb can destroy reinforced concrete buildings underground.