The US has modernized the most powerful US non-nuclear bomb GBU-57 and is ready to use it. Experts have not ruled out that the GBU-57 will fall on the territory of North Korea. The consequences of this step will be tragic.

This week it became known that the United States completed the modernization of its most powerful non-nuclear bomb GBU-57. As a source in the military circles told Bloomberg, GBU-57 "became more precise and effective." These words were not concretized, which elements of the ammunition were changed, were not reported to the Pentagon.

Developed in 2007, GBU-57 is a joint venture between Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. Much of the information on the bomb is classified as classified. From the information available to the public, it follows that the ammunition is designed to destroy the enemy's underground fortifications. In addition, it is known that the GBU-57 in its parameters is superior to the "mother of all bombs" GBU-43, which in April last year destroyed almost 100 militants of the terrorist organization IG banned in Russia.

GBU-57, unlike GBU-43, has not been used by the Americans yet, but experts believe that this is a matter of time. According to experts, the United States can drop its supercharger to North Korea.

This assumption is supported by the fact that in January the Pentagon deployed B-2 bombers capable of carrying the GBU-57, on the island of Guam, located just three thousand kilometers from the DPRK.

Director of the Center for Strategic Studies Ivan Konovalov in an interview with RT TV noted that the use of an American superbomb against North Korea will have unpredictable and tragic consequences. According to the expert, in order for GBU-57 to have an effect, Americans need to know exactly where the underground facilities of the North Korean army are.

Konovalov doubted that Washington had such information. The analyst predicted that the Americans would stumble upon a stronger response from Pyongyang than they expected. As a result, a nuclear catastrophe can occur on the Korean Peninsula.

Earlier, the US repeatedly threatened to use military force against the DPRK, if it does not renounce nuclear tests. In December 2017, a forecast appeared in the media, which said that the US army would hit North Korea during the Winter Olympics.

Today such a scenario is extremely unlikely. Over the past weeks, the situation on the Korean peninsula has become less tense. To mark the impending détente, South and North Korean athletes will attend the opening of the Games under the same flag.

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