Posted on 09/30/2009 4:20:25 AM PDT by SpaceBar
The Pentagon has brought forward to December 2009 the target-date for producing the first 15-ton super bunker-buster bomb (GBU-57A/B) Massive Ordinance Penetrator, which can reach a depth of 60.09 meters underground before exploding. DEBKAfile's military sources report that top defense agencies and air force units were also working against the clock to adapt the bay of a B2a Stealth bomber for carrying and delivering the bomb.
The Pentagon has ordered the number of bombs rolling off the production line increased from four to ten - a rush job triggered in May by the discovery that Iran was hiding a second uranium enrichment plant under a mountain near Qom - a discovery which prompted this week's international outcry.
Congress has since quietly inserted the necessary funding in the 2009 budget.
All this urgency indicates that the Obama administration has been preparing military muscle to back up the international condemnation of Iran's concealed nuclear bomb program, its sanctions threat and his willingness to join the negotiations with Iran opening on Oct. 1 in Geneva. Tehran may have to take into account a possible one-time surgical strike against its underground enrichment facility as a warning shot should its defiance continue. In particular, the world powers this week demanded that Iran open up all its nuclear facilities and programs to full and immediate international inspection. Failure to do so could bring forth further US military action.
According to our military sources...
(Excerpt) Read more at debka.com ...
“I like the Atomic Ham Bomb.”
Pork weaponization should be a priority for use against an enemy which fears it.
Didnt we put one into orbit yesterday?? No one is saying what the mission is but I’m reasonably positive they could bring that bad boy down anywhere on earth. The rest of the world is gonna treat it as if this is the intent.
Fill your hollow points with bacon grease for maximum effect.
You get something that will resist the re-entry heat coming in from space and use it as a “Rod from God” and you don’t need bunker busters. All that is needed is a guidance package.
Eventually with some non materialistic shielding or “force field” and some near the speed of light speeds even something the size of a peanut would be far greater in terms of explosive power, that is a theoretical concept that is probably coming to a reality very soon.
Thanks a bunch...great photos
197’-1.74”
In order to convert it to 200ft, a meter would have to be 3.3283408 ft instead of 3.280839 ft.
Interesting problem.
Don't worry. He went golfing. Unless he likes to punch up F.R. on his Blackberry, he won't know.
***Do they ever use these clusters??? Actually, they only need 2...one for Meca & the other for Medina....***
Need three. Lets not forget the sacred well at Quom where the 12th Imman resides underground.;-D
He could use one to give Bawney Fwanks an enema! Bawney is likely packed so hard, even a nuke wouldn't work.Every fag in the union has been knocking Bawney to get cheap real estate development loans.
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