Inside Trump's Mega 2000-Pound Bomb Deal For Israel: What Are MK-84 And BLU-117?

The proposed package includes 20,000 MK-84 bombs, 20,000 BLU-117 bombs and 20,000 I-2000 penetrator warheads.

The Trump administration is preparing a $2.8 billion weapons package for Israel that would include 40,000 heavy 2,000-pound bombs, making it one of the largest US sales of such munitions to Israel in recent years. The proposed package includes 20,000 MK-84 bombs, 20,000 BLU-117 bombs and 20,000 I-2000 penetrator warheads, according to US officials cited by Reuters and The Washington Post.

The scale of the proposed transfer is significant not merely because of the number of bombs, but because of the destructive capability of the weapons involved. Each 2,000-pound-class bomb weighs roughly 907 kg, and variants of these weapons can be used against large surface targets as well as hardened or deeply protected positions.