Explosive war

More than 90 militants of the Islamic State group were killed as a result of the American airstrike with a GBU-43B super-powerful bomb according to the tunnels system in Afghanistan. It is reported by CNN with reference to local authorities.

According to the head of the Achin County, Nangarhar Ismail Shinvari, the death of 92 militants, including four field commanders, was confirmed. Initially, the Afghan authorities reported 36 dead. Meanwhile, the Islamic Housadium announced the absence of losses.

On Thursday, the US military dropped the most powerful of non -nuclear bombs in the positions of militants of the Islamic State in the province of Nangarhar. As the representative of the White House Sean Spicer said at a briefing, such a powerful bomb was dropped to destroy the system of tunnels and caves used by terrorists. The scale of damage is now estimated by the American command. The United States took all precautions to avoid victims among the civilian population.

The blow was agreed with Kabul, the administration of the President of Afghanistan said . “We knew in advance about the impending operation, it was agreed with us,” a source in the Afghan leadership said.

GBU -43B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAV) - a high -explosive bomb weighing 9.5 tons with satellite guidance. The widespread beaconim is Mother of All Bombs (mother of all bombs). Its power is 11 tons in TNT equivalent, the radius of the defeat is about 140 meters. Length 9.17 m, diameter 102.9 cm. The weight of an explosive, which is a mixture of hexogen, TNT and aluminum powder - 8.4 tons. Moab is equipped with a KMU-593/B guide system, which includes inertial and satellite navigation systems. It was first tested in 2003, until now in combat conditions was not used.

Now in Afghanistan there are about 8400 US military. They regularly carry out operations against IG in Nangarhara.

In October 2014, the United States and Great Britain transferred their latest bases in Afghanistan Camp Bastion and Camp Lesernek under the control of Afghan security forces. This happened 13 years after the overthrow of the radical regime of the Taliban. The US Army lost 2349 people in Afghanistan.

However, in the same year, a bilateral agreement was signed between Afghanistan and the United States, according to which part of the NATO troops will remain in the country even after the end of the military operation "Invincent Freedom". They had to provide assistance in the fight against anti -government groups.

After the terrorists resumed their activities in early January 2015, having blown up a car in the center of Kabul, NATO, together with the Afghan National Army, began to conduct active measures to neutralize militants within the country.