Posted on 06/17/2025 2:50:41 PM PDT by RandFan
Israel says one of its main goals is to destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities - including the Fordow nuclear site, which is buried inside a mountain.
There's one weapon that could achieve this - and only the US is known to have it.
As BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner wrote earlier, this is the 30,000lb question. Because that, (13,600kg), is the tonnage of the weapon that would be needed to reach some of Iran’s most secretive and valuable nuclear apparatus, buried 90m (295ft) deep under a mountain.
The weapon, to give it its full name, is the GBU-57 MOP, standing for Massive Ordnance Penetrator and it can hit targets as deep as 61m underground, or deeper with repeated strikes.
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In the name of peace and prosperity we have to do it, simply because if Iran gets atomic weapons they will use them.
It needs to be a modified MOP. one that carries a nuc where all that can be seen on the surface is pfffft, a dud in outward appearance.
The only thing they do well.
Is this the FOAB
( father of all bombs )
that I heard this retired Green Beret talked about today ?
Valhalla AVFT
( not the guy in the intro at the beginning )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_5DcrjTjO4&pp=ygULVmFoYWxsYSBWRlQ%3D
13 min 31 s
He thinks we are already in this war.
The only plane that can carry it is the B2.
That would toss their salad.
The Israelis will generally yank out some of our stuff on their purchased aircraft and put in their stuff that works better.
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That’s for comperable planes.
The planes that deliver these payloads do not have any Israeli comperables.
The shock wave would either kill them or collapse the remaining cover.
The 2nd bomb <— would definitely finish the job!
The Israelis will generally yank out some of our stuff on their purchased aircraft and put in their stuff that works better.
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That’s for comperable planes.
The planes that deliver these payloads do not have any Israeli comperables.
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Yup - comparable aircraft. Nothing they have will carry the 57. I did say their purchased aircraft.
They do have a Gulfstream V and eight C-130s of varying vintage. Non-players.
They have a nice pile of F15s, F16s, and F35s. They would be modified, some more than others and the flight control computers would probably be untouched.
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