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In April 2017, not long after the United States announced that it had detonated the Massive Ordnance Air Blast, or MOAB (also colloquially called the Mother of All Bombs), the Facebook page Cold Dead Hands shared a video of a large explosion: The United States military did drop a A GBU-43/B MOAB on ISIS targets in Afghanistan in April 2017. This video, however, does not show that explosion. The video is from at least 2015, when it was first shared along with the claim that it shows an ammunition depot exploding after it was hit by an airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen. While we were unable to authenticate whether that was completely true, video from the New York Times shows a similar blast: On 14 April 2017, the Pentagon released the first (and so far only) video of the 2017 MOAB explosion in Afghanistan:
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