6 tons and 11 tons. Serious business to carry around with a Lancaster.
Why not put wings and a tail on the bomb and tow it to the target?
Leave Fordow untouched and make a museum out if it. The islamist thugocracy in Tehran will collapse in a minute.
I would not be surprised, at all, if the bomb is dropped by a Boeing 777F or a 747-8F Freighter, heavily modified by Israel.
They knew they were building these fortified deep bunkers years ago. Why didn’t Israel prepare for that or hit them in the process of development?
“””Israel needs a 15-ton ‘bunker buster’ bomb to destroy the last untouched nuclear facility in Iran, but only the US has one.”””
This opening statement by NYP presumes a bunker buster is the absolute only way to destroy the last nuclear facility.
Well, Israel has shown themselves to be more clever than the writers at NYP.
I could envision a truck laden with explosives being driven into that mountain tunnel.
Compute the probable volume of the underground complex...
Compute the amount of air the hundreds or thousands of workers require to survive...
Seal all surface accesses to the underground facility, leaving redesigned accesses that would allow either air evacuation or poison gas injection...
Destroy all water and power entry points on the surface...
Sit back and wait...
6 tons and 11 tons. Serious business to carry around with a Lancaster.
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.
I don’t think Iran has the bomb, Bibi’s poll numbers, rightly or wrongly, have declined precipitously, he needs another war to keep from ending up in court in Israel, he’s not going to stop in Iran even if he does take put Fordow, and regardless he lies like a rug:
We’ve been lied to about Iraq, how great things would be there, Libya, Syria, etc, after regime changes and in the end it’s Christians dying mostly w more and more refugees coming to America.
Bush officials said if we didn’t go fight in Iraq there would be mushroom clouds over America.
Btw...
👉 “9 minutes of Netanyahu lying to us (or getting duped) about WMDs before the US crushed Iraq. Then Iranian influence in the region grew, justifying more US aid/involvement in the Middle East. But we should trust Bibi this time, right? Water under the bridge after 20 yrs, right?”
https://x.com/KenTheroux/status/1713323011879645526
👉 Iran has been “days away from developing nukes” for more than 30 years.”
[92, 93, 95, 96, 2006...2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2022, 2024, 2025]
https://x.com/GarbageHuman24/status/1933366152845271321
This was from Tulsi Gabbard less than 90 days ago.
“... Iran is not building a nuclear weapon...”
https://x.com/Rothbard1776/status/1934760414979494126
👉 “Be clearly aware that Tulsi Gabbard, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, gave official testimony on March 26th, 2025 as follows:
“The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme leader Khomeini has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.”
In other words, according to the entire U.S. intelligence community Iran is not pursuing the creation of a nuclear weapon.”
https://x.com/starseedastro/status/1934772324970189190
Simultaneously, locate & destroy emergency tunnel exits
Everyone assumes this MOP is the only way to destroy Fordow.
It’s narrow thinking and it’s nonsense.
The target doesn’t have to be bombed. Set up a perimeter and excavate it. Take everything, then fill the hole with concrete.
Are they accurate enough to repeat a hit on the same hole?
Keep pushing war....people that are pushing war should get their sons and dtrs and grandchildren signed up.
Can be delivered out the back of a C 130.
Israel flies C 130s.
This would be the beginning of a new war, not the end.
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.
neither side eats bacon.
not our war.
Sell them a bunker buster.
IDF will figure it out!
I could see the Israelis using a heavily modified C-130 to deliver it on target. It would more than likely have to take off half full and a JATO takeoff at that(with a bomb no less). They would have to build a fuel bridge for the C-130(7 refuels for the 130 alone) and its escorts, totally suppress any type of missiles or AAA over the target and then nearly stand the C-130 on its tail to build up enough kinetic energy for the bomb to go thru that much rock. They would have to drop it from 50,000-60,000 feet if my calculations or even remotely close. too many things could go wrong and you would get one shot at best.