15-ton mega bomb needed to destroy Iran’s last nuclear facility – here’s why Israel can’t deliver it

NY Post ^ | 6/17/2025 | Michael Kaplan

[jjotto]

No argument from me. Cold War caused a lot of alliances and vessels that may have been justified, but that was 35+ years ago. It’s over.

[central_va]

The should make an icbm version of it.

[Carry_Okie]

Are they accurate enough to repeat a hit on the same hole?

[cherry]

Keep pushing war....people that are pushing war should get their sons and dtrs and grandchildren signed up.

[Blueflag]

Can be delivered out the back of a C 130.

Israel flies C 130s.

[FreedomForce]

Yeah, you can’t just shove a MOP out the back of a cargo plane. It would probably take at least a few MOPs impacting the same spot to have a reasonable chance of success anyway.

[Drew68]

The U.S. hasn’t offered to sell them one!

We only have 21 B-2 bombers. We were supposed to have over 130 but the program kept getting whittled down.

And we're already pulling B-1s out of the boneyard. Two now, already.

[Zhang Fei]

[Nothing says you have to drop anything. Once Israel controls the immediate area, they can use conventional drill rigs to put bombs of any size they want where they want at any depth they want, and that includes a hydrogen warhead which they possess.]

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This is a poll-driven info op. Netanyahu is giving Trump space to do the honors, deliver the death blow to Iran’s nuclear program. For a single air raid like Osirak in 81, done in the teeth of enemy air defenses, US help would be indispensable against a well-fortified installation. Today, with Iranian air space in Israeli hands, it has time to bomb at leisure with smaller warheads, the way a miner or a tunnel builder would.

Israel is setting Fordow aside for Trump as a personal gesture. As an assassination target for Iran, he’s got a debt he’s looking to settle. And for the US to rubble that facility could mark the final repudiation of Iraq Syndrome, where the US was loath to act in its own interests for fear of chimerical detrimental side effects

[ArcadeQuarters]

This would be the beginning of a new war, not the end.

[DocRock]

A C-130 would be much easier to modify.

[EnderWiggin1970]

Something here doesn’t add up. The Israelis do a consistently superb job of mission planning and execution including being prepared for contingencies. It just doesn’t make sense to me that they would launch this war to neutralize Iran’s nuclear threat and try to clear the path for regime change, without having a solid plan for Fordow. Which suggests to me that they do have a plan and I’m just lacking their intel. The idea that they’d just make this part up as they went along, hoping for the US to step in at the appropriate time but without solid assurances, seems unlike them.

[Bobbyvotes]

Just rent the bombers for one week.

[Zhang Fei]

[Keep pushing war....people that are pushing war should get their sons and dtrs and grandchildren signed up.]

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Blue city dwellers are signed up. We will be on the receiving end of nuclear warheads you keep telling us are impending, if we persist. I prefer to deal with the threat, not cower in fear.

Forget the nuclear threat. I want payback exacted for the thousands of Americans killed by Iran’s proxies, including on 10/7. It’s time we collected on this blood debt.

[TexasGator]

“Just rent the bombers for one week”

And have them crash both.

[Organic Panic]

They don’t have to destroy the bunker to stop enrichment. Just the supporting infrastructure. Power generation. Ventilation. Water. Transportation, and the people.

[Peter ODonnell]

I believe the difficulty of destroying Fordow is probably behind the regime change strategy, if you could get a friendly regime in Tehran, then you could get inspectors and agents into Fordow and dismantle it without using very large weapons.

I’m all for regime change in Iran personally but I note with some cynicism the number of times I’ve heard over a long lifetime that Iran was very close to having a nuclear weapon. They must have some of the slowest research programs ever devised. Of course losing successive groups of researchers to misadventure may play a role in that.

[The Free Engineer]

Exactly.
And if you have seen videos of the “Pulsing” bomb used at Natanz, Israel may have a trick or too up its sleeve.
Some say the pop pop pop is “cookoff” of ordinance but to me it seems too regular a rhythm, too much like a pile driver.

[HombreSecreto]

Yep...and Major Kong is not available.

[Zhang Fei]

[Something here doesn’t add up. The Israelis do a consistently superb job of mission planning and execution including being prepared for contingencies. It just doesn’t make sense to me that they would launch this war to neutralize Iran’s nuclear threat and try to clear the path for regime change, without having a solid plan for Fordow. Which suggests to me that they do have a plan and I’m just lacking their intel. The idea that they’d just make this part up as they went along, hoping for the US to step in at the appropriate time but without solid assurances, seems unlike them.]

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This is poll-driven. Israel is clearing a space for Trump so he can retaliate for Iran’s failed assassination attempt and personally put the kibosh on its nuclear program. With control of Iran’s airspace, Israel’s air force is now comparable to tunnel builders or miners. Smaller bombs will cumulatively do the trick. But that wouldn’t give Trump the opportunity to take credit, which could be helpful for the midterms.

Americans worry about US casualties from occupation, not air strikes that kill the enemy. Going into elections with Iran’s nuclear program reduced to grains of desert sand will be a real feather in his cap.

[TigersEye]

If you’re gonna do that don’t forget to put dog poo and flaming T-P on it.