It ultimately matters little in the big scheme whether the centrifuges themselves were damaged, or damage occurred to supporting electronic controllers and/or HVAC equipment, if enrichment was interrupted. It is like asking whether the Abrams Tank broke down because of a gas turbine problem or a broken track cog. Useful to the M1A1 engineers post-mortem, but either way, it missed the battle.
You are so aggressively pushing the “centrifuges are immortal” line I am wondering about your motivation. Is it just technical one-upsmanship or something else? For the typical readers, your presentation is going to cow them into believing Stuxnet had no effectiveness at all. Even Ahmadinejad has admitted that it did. His motivations tend to be different from those of “Israeli PR”.
"Killing and scaring off Iran's engineers and scientists is a laudable and worthy effort."
Is there anything pacifist, non-specific, or anti-Israel about that?
Clearly I am not an Iranian supporter. Clearly I am an Israeli supporter.
But most of all I am an American patriot that won't tolerate being led by the nose by any outside group. That is what the Israeli PR machine does to American media constantly.
Secondly, I am opposed to ignorance. Here is a technical area that I am professionally trained by Siemens, inverters and frequency drives are a part of my professional engineering life.
I also have studied Radiological Safety and have a working knowledge of weapons grade uranium and plutonium.
When I see a nexus of technical mis-statements by Israeli PR and a lack of understanding by FR readers, OK gee, I'm gonna lay out the facts that I know. Accept them or deny them, but most of all, if you disagree, offer your own theories and technical understanding.
Don't box my statements into bland dismissals like "centrifuges are immortal". Clearly, my prior post described their fragile nature of being destroyed by a small spot of skin oil.
I also described Stuxnet's destructive effectiveness.
If you know better, please, in your words, one-up me.