US Air Forces Get Super-Heavy Bunker Buster Bombs

The Voice of Russia ^ | November 15, 2011

[Fennie]

US Air Forces have received super-heavy bunker buster bombs, a spokesman with Pentagon lieutenant-colonel Jack Miller told reporters Tuesday.

He said that Boeing, had begun to supply the bombs to the Air Force Global Strike Command in September.

The bombs will be carried by B-2 bombers. Each bomb weights 13.6 tons and has a built in satellite navigation system.

Some experts note that this type of bomb which is capable of breaking a 18 meter thick concrete walls, is perfect weapon for attacking nuclear facilities in Iran.

(TASS)

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Some experts note that this type of bomb which is capable of breaking a 18 meter thick concrete walls, is perfect weapon for attacking nuclear facilities in Iran.***

Mecca, Medina, Quom. kaboom.

[MSF BU]

I had thought that the B-1 would carry something like this. No doubt our FR AF experts will fill me in on just why the B-2 is a better choice. I’ve always wondered now the the USSR is dissolved, what is the justification for maintaining the B-1.

[DuncanWaring]

Same as the justification for keeping the B-52.

Sometimes you just need to be able to shovel out truckfulls of bombs.

[kinsman redeemer]

...interesting response and thanks.

I don’t do cable or satellite TV. I have (ah hem...) an antenna on the roof for TV. I get several broadcast stations here (30.1 - 30.10) in the GREATER Washington, D.C. meto area, including: France 24, NHK (Japan), Korean, Al Jazeera (yes, I said it!), and RT News (Russia).

Obviously, I take some of what is said with a grain of salt but a grain of salt is ALL I GET from NBC, ABC, and CBS.

Believe it or not, I see in-depth coverage on Al Jazaeera.

Mind you, I don’t watch much TV at all. I see less than 1 hour in any week but when something big is happening I am usually guranteed that I will get details from these other stations that are missing from the “US Misleadia.”

Thanks for reading.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I guarantee you that when they are deployed (from B-2 stealth aircraft) we will be using a full suite of jamming, countermeasures and decoys. They'll get about a megawatt ERP down the throats of their surveillance radars, thousands of electronically induced false targets and hundreds of RCS enhanced miniature drones. The radar operators screens will look like Level XX Missile Command on a Saturday night.

[ASA Vet]

Trinitite is usually a light green, although color can vary.

[Gaffer]

doesn’t mean they aren’t Muslims.....

[mountainlion]

I had forgotten the wild weasel.

[grey_whiskers]

I guarantee you that when they are deployed (from B-2 stealth aircraft) we will be using a full suite of jamming, countermeasures and decoys. They'll get about a megawatt ERP down the throats of their surveillance radars, thousands of electronically induced false targets and hundreds of RCS enhanced miniature drones. The radar operators screens will look like Level XX Missile Command on a Saturday night.

LOLSMTIGMTASWIDMAM.

(Laughing Out Loud So Much That I'm Getting My Teen-Age Son Who Is Downstairs Mad At Me.)

Cheers!

[Djester62]

What a waste of money. The Bloomberg article listed one of the facilities being located 295 ft. underground. There’s no need to drop a super high-powered bomb to blow up the facility. Just destroy the access tunnels. By the time they dig to the facility, everyone inside will be dead & the equipment will be destroyed from lack of maintenance. The site will probably be contaminated from the release of gaseous Uranium- hexafluoride. Watch the site with satellites & when they start bringing stuff out, bomb it again.

[TheOldLady]

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[JimRed]

A better idea: stealth nuclear cruise missiles. When the production facility is vaporized, we can claim that Iran had a nuclear “accident”.

[em2vn]

Nearly thirty thousand pounds of concrete dropped from fifty thousand feet or higher will penetrated a few meters of concrete without any explosive involved.

[VF-51vnv]

BINGO...we have a winner,By then ground troops(snipers) just waiting for target practice or strafes by A-10s, Just let it melt and glow in the dark

[NFHale]

“..So drop an EMP to kill surveillance, bunker buster to start hole, another missile to clear the rubble then alternate bunker busters and regular explosives to dig out the rats...”

Yeah...and that’s just at Democrat National Headquarters for starters!!!!

Ooops...sorry...did that slip out? Did I say that out loud? Hypothetically speaking, of course....

[af_vet_rr]

I had thought that the B-1 would carry something like this. No doubt our FR AF experts will fill me in on just why the B-2 is a better choice. I’ve always wondered now the the USSR is dissolved, what is the justification for maintaining the B-1.

Probably the stealth factor. They were used in Libya early on. But it could also be used as a justification to keep the B-2 around.

You want to talk about B-1s, I don't know if they are still doing it, but they were using them in Afghanistan as close air support. There were some good reasons but the things take up a lot of resources just to have them flying around in case they are needed.

[CCGuy]

The B-2 is the vehicle of choice for the weapon because it has a very long and continuous bay that this long weapon can fit into.

The B-1B is a fine system, but it has a few bays that are segmented along the length of the airframe.

Also, you want the attack to be a surprise and the B-2 can get to the target without the enemy even knowing it is coming. The B-1 is more difficult to detect than many other bombers in the world, but is far less stealthy than the B-2.

[Lockbox]

point taken

[tanknetter]

I had thought that the B-1 would carry something like this. No doubt our FR AF experts will fill me in on just why the B-2 is a better choice.

The issue is the size of the weapons bay on the two aircraft.

The B-1 and B-2 were designed to go to war with the CSRL - the Common Strategic Rotary Launcher. Basically a big tube mounted in the weapons bay that could allow a variety of weapons, from B61s and SRAMs up to the big USAF cruise missiles (the AGM-86 and AGM-129), to be carried and launched selectively.

The B-2 has two side-by-side weapons bays sized for the CSRL. The B-1 as designed an built had one weapons bay sized for the CSRL, and a smaller one in the aft fuselage for either rack-mounted weapons or - usually - an extra fuel tank.

Thing is that the B-1's big forward CSRL-sized bay was also designed to be segmented into two smaller bays (ones that were too small for the CSRL) by inserting a bulkhead. When the B-1s were removed from the strategic/nuclear mission as a result of START, by treaty terms (and amongst other de-nuke mods**) the bulkheads were permanently fixed in place to prevent CSRLs (and specifically the cruise missiles they were designed for) from being carried.

So in designing the MOP the engineers went for the largest weapon capable of being crammed into the largest available USAF weapons bay, the ones on the B-2s, rather than something that could fit into a B-1 as well. As an aside I think that the B-52 weapons bay can physically handle a MOP as well.

** It should also be noted that the B-1B was designed to carry a whole slew of externally-mounted cruise missiles. IIRC the total number was supposed to be 20 - 8 internally on the CSRL, 12 externally on fuselage hardpoints. By START terms the external hardpoints were inactivated by filling them with some kind of a hard resin compound. Flash-forward 10-15 years to the mid-00s and the USAF actually had to have START renegotiated to allow the starboard forward hardpoint on its B-1s to be reactivated to mount LITENING and SNIPER pods, allowing the B-1 fleet to self-designate targets.

[JudgemAll]

Maybe we have the B1 because gangster Russia has
a fleet of Backfires and Blackjacks that are
more capable, along with 20 000 something nuke
stockpile ready to incinerate us when they’ll have
u and ur Obamerica look pretty enough for a
pedophile gallore like attack.