“Are they accurate enough to repeat a hit on the same hole?”
Absolutely they are INS and GPS guided to a few meters CEP. They could put 4 down the same hole with two B2 bombers each carries a pair of these bad boys.
If we were really serious we would use the weapon designed specific to this task of collapsing under mountain bunkers the B61-11 it is designed to penetrate a classified distance into.solid rock then detonate it’s tactical.nuclear payload.in such a way to couple the blast energy downwards into the rock sending a supersonic shockwave through the earth itself. You cannot bury something deep enough to withstand a coupled shockwave. As the shockwave hits the density difference between the rock and the open air of the structure it detaches a layer of.rock at supersonic speeds inwards plus the shockwave itself propagating to the air crushing anything and everything in its path. This effect is exactly what the B61-11 is designed for its a leadership bunker killer. Some of our ballistic missiles are also equipped with means of digging a impact path at hypersonic reentry speeds just in front of the live TV with the warhead which days down the plasma hole left by the penetrator it’s already in 3000+ degree plasma it’s heatshield doesn’t know the difference. These special ICBM are also bunker killers and with CEP in the sub 90 meter range there is no escape from a 300+KT warhead.
The USA lacks the stones to use either but the capability is there.
Israel has C130J the newest ones they can lift 44,000lbs...They could put one of these GPS guided monsters in the cargo bay on wheeled pallets attach a drag chute to the back end and fly it at FL300 over the target. Once inside the GPS glide angle cone they open the back ramp , pop that.chute and pitch up into a climb. MOP and plane part ways just like we did with a C5 and a live minuteman 80,000+LB ICBM which was live fired from that drop so we know the technique works.
Thank you for a very clear explanation of the technical problem. BTW, I was once involved in manufacturing the electronic triggers for detonation-after-impact devices like this back in the late 1980s.
So really, this is a psychological problem: The “lacks the stones” phenomenon is the decision to pull the “nuclear” trigger in deploying these weapons, which then lowers the political threshold for others possessing more conventional and broadly destructive nuclear weapons; i.e., Pakistan, India, North Korea, and Russia in Ukraine.
No wonder Trump wants the mullahs alive to “surrender.” Problem is: They’re crazy. They won’t. Then what? The “cut off the air and let them suffocate,” solution would be very difficult to execute. A new Iranian government could blow the place to our satisfaction; so I’m guessing that appears to be the least intractable option.
At this point, I still think the “give them guns” solution seems the most attractive, the ol’ WWII thing we did in France with the Liberator pistol. It’s cheap too. I really like the idea of the people of Iran taking it to the IRGC.