Posted on 05/05/2015 6:10:49 PM PDT by SJackson
Secretary of State John Kerry raised the specter of using a 30,000-pound (13,600-kg) bunker-buster bomb against Iran’s nuclear program in an interview aired this week, during an attempt to reassure Israelis that America had its back against Tehran, even if it means preemptive military action.
People in Israel should have some confidence in an “administration that designed and deployed the weapon that has the ability to deal with Iran’s nuclear program,” Kerry told Channel 10, adding that his is “an administration, a government, a country that will stand by Israel way into the future.”
The weapon he was referring to, the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, is a 30,000-pound bomb that was made operational in 2011 and recently redesigned in terms of guidance and penetration. The massive weapon has not been offered to Israel for purchase.
The US Department of Defense invested $330 million to develop 20 of the bombs and requested an additional $82 million to enhance their efficacy, the Wall Street Journal reported in 2012.
In April the Journal reported that the upgraded bomb was tested in mid-January, when it was dropped from a B-2 bomber that took off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.
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Israel needs to make it clear that if they get nuked, major Islamic cities across the world get nuked too
@Horseface: “Prove it.”
This seems like a progression over time —
1) Iran can’t build a bomb
2) Iran could build a bomb, but they just aren’t.
3) Iran is trying to build a bomb, but we will stop them.
4) Iran is building a bomb, but we will slow them down.
5) We aren’t going to slow them down.
6) We have this bomb, which we could use, if — you know — Iran started nuking people ...
Kerrys jive jibber jabber is “evolving”
7) Nuking Iran won’t bring back those people...
8) Then we can save our bunker-buster bomb for something more important.
World Class incompetence.
Kerry has your back just like he had the American GIs’ backs in Viet Nam. He has your back like Obama has the backs’ of American personnel in Benghazi. He has your back like Obama has his typical white grandmother’s back.
There you go Israel. Don’t worry.
Kerry talks while Obama’s IslamoNazi friends in Iran continue building thier nukes
talk is cheap, Mr. Kerry, even from a fine upstanding gentleman like you
use those new bombs to remove the threat.. and we may be able to start respecting you
> Israel needs to make it clear that if they get nuked, major Islamic cities across the world get nuked too
It’s almost a surety that they’ve told the Saudis that Mecca goes first.
A big bomb is useless without the determination to use it. Israel knows that Obunghole won’t attack his Musloid butt-buddies.
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What a tactician. He fought in Vietnam, yaknow.
Is Kerry lying again? I believe that the MOP was started under the Bush administration.
Lying. MOP goes back at least to 2002 and deployment was committed to before Obama was elected.
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