The Air Force’s bunker-busting Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is ready to go today, if necessary, Secretary Michael Donley said yesterday. Donley told a Capitol Hill breakfast that in addition to being ready to deploy the air-dropped MOP today, the Air Force continues to improve it. “If it needed to go today, we would be ready to do that,” Donley said. “We’ve continued to do testing on the MOP to refine its capabilities and that is ongoing. We also have the…
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