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US used six B-2 bombers to drop 12 "bunker busters" on Fordow, official says
CNN ^ | Sun June 22, 2025 | Ten writers, CNN

Posted on 06/22/2025 4:26:59 AM PDT by quantim

The US used six B-2 bombers to drop a dozen “bunker buster” bombs on the Fordow nuclear site in Iran, a US official told CNN.

Navy submarines fired 30 TLAM cruise missiles at two other sites, Natanz and Isfahan, and a B2 dropped two bunker busters on Natanz, the official said.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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So the first 11 bunker-busting bombs must have drilled a hole for the 12th bomb to do its work.

Also here is a short video of one of the bombs, looks like one of the nuke blasts from the WWII era:

the First Video from U.S. Strike on Fordow? — WATCH NOW!

 


1 posted on 06/22/2025 4:26:59 AM PDT by quantim
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Iran moved the materials out of “Fordow” a few days ago? And “Natanz” was the harder underground target to breach....GBU-57’s should have been used there...T-LAMS not that effective for an underground target like Natanz.

https://apnews.com/article/iran-nuclear-natanz-uranium-enrichment-underground-project-04dae673fc937af04e62b65dd78db2e0

https://news.sky.com/story/isfahan-natanz-and-fordow-what-we-know-about-the-us-strikes-on-irans-nuclear-facilities-13386916


2 posted on 06/22/2025 4:37:20 AM PDT by Drago
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To: quantim

14 total BB’s


3 posted on 06/22/2025 4:37:38 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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Bombing a nuclear facility? What happens to
the atmosphere with the spread of the waste?


4 posted on 06/22/2025 4:39:37 AM PDT by deport
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To: Drago

I’m gonna argue that there were a lot of eyes between Israel and Washington watching those sites constantly since Israel first started this campaign. It would have been extremely difficult for any of those materials to be moved without notice.


5 posted on 06/22/2025 4:49:54 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: quantim

No, three separate ‘drill’ sites, 2 each.

Details matter.


6 posted on 06/22/2025 4:51:05 AM PDT by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
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To: quantim

Should’ve used B61-11’s, just to be sure.


7 posted on 06/22/2025 4:52:00 AM PDT by Polanski
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To: deport

Well, some of it makes it to the surface. Duh.

But most all of it was buried under a million tons of rock and concrete.

Would you prefer that radiation be spread over Israel or a US city?

Think about it.


8 posted on 06/22/2025 4:55:05 AM PDT by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
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To: Drago
And “Natanz” was the harder underground target to breach....GBU-57’s should have been used there...

2 MOPs were used at Natanz.

9 posted on 06/22/2025 4:55:54 AM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals crazy!)
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To: Drago

>> Iran moved the materials out of “Fordow” a few days ago?

No.

And anyway, it’s not the partially enriched “nuclear materials” that matter... it’s the enrichment cascade. It’s broke! Permanently!


10 posted on 06/22/2025 4:57:19 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: deport

>> What happens to the atmosphere with the spread of the waste?

Oh, I dunno... guess we’re all gonna die. We only had 4.63 years left anyway because of all the CO2 in the air and stuff.


11 posted on 06/22/2025 4:58:43 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Blueflag

>> Details matter.

When FReepers are hyperventilating and speculating and armchair-quarterbacking, details just get in the way of proper fabulist scenario-building!


12 posted on 06/22/2025 5:01:19 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: quantim

A lot of armchair generals on your post “shoulda done this, shoulda used that”.....hilarious. SMH


13 posted on 06/22/2025 5:02:59 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Nervous Tick

Well put.


14 posted on 06/22/2025 5:08:07 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Nervous Tick

You’re exactly right.

“It was the wrong strike package because Nantaz was the hardest facility!”

“No is isn’t, ISFAHAN is the hardest!”

“Oh yeah, they’re ALL too hard for the US to defeat. Irna is simply invincible in this regard.”

“You guys are all wrong, because Iran moved all their materiel away DAYS ago.”

“You’re all wrong; THREE nuclear nations have vowed to provide Iran with the world’s most powerful nuclear bombs. What do you think those 747s from China were carrying idiot???”

“Well it was unconstitutional anyways, because Trump is a King.”

Did I cover most all of it? ;-)


15 posted on 06/22/2025 5:09:20 AM PDT by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
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To: Nervous Tick

I left out. “CNN anonymous sources inside the State Department said ...”


16 posted on 06/22/2025 5:10:04 AM PDT by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
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To: Drago

They dropped two MOPs on Natanz in addition to the smaller missiles.


17 posted on 06/22/2025 5:13:20 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: deport

Nothing material.

It’s underground and gets buried in rock.


18 posted on 06/22/2025 5:14:03 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: quantim
I fear China help move their Fordov program back to China temporarily.
China had three planes drop off missles to attack Israel with
and moved key nuclear devices .
Time will tell .
19 posted on 06/22/2025 5:14:37 AM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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To: Blueflag

Concern trolls work off a list of talking points they’ve been provided.

Nice of Trump to avoid the Muslim sabbath for them.


20 posted on 06/22/2025 5:16:43 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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