I remember a few years back the US shipped a considerable amount of bunker busters in a hush, hush operation to Israel I wonder if Israel finally decided to remove them from storage and make use of them?
what have the inspectors accomplished in Iran? Helped in bomb development/
I believe we’ve sent some heavy bunker buster bombs in recent shipments too — one of the Dem ultra-libs was complaining about it on TV a couple weeks ago.
Smaller transfers don’t get publicly listed by DOD, but DOD likely posts the big transfers as they are required to inform Congress also. Many of the shipments to Ukraine have been listed in the past, though most of the weapons sent to Ukraine are popgun stuff.
We, and likely the Israelis, have certain bunker busters that have low-yield nuclear warheads. Contrary to hysterical public opinion, not every possible use of a nuke would result in nuclear oblivion for the entire planet. In fact, use of one of those bombs in this context would likely be indistinguishable from the use of a conventional deep penetrator, as the resulting radiation would be minimal and masked by any radiation emitted from the target. And the depth of those targets would limit any emissions at the surface. And there’s always the lesser alternative of using conventional deep penetrators or other weapons to simply collapse the entrance tunnels, without necessarily destroying the complexes they access.