US May Sell Israel Advanced 'Bunker-Busters' Enabling Iran Strike

The Times of Israel ^ | March 7, 2012 | By Aaron Kalman

[Strategy]

The US might sell Israel special arms and munitions that would enable an Israeli strike on Iran, an unnamed military source told Army Radio Tuesday night.

[nuconvert]

Reports are, they were sold GBU-28’s (not MOP)
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/gbu-28.htm

[meatloaf]

As long as people can get into the bunkers, so can the Israelis.

[gandalftb]

Fordu is completely self-contained, tight as a sub under 500-2,500 feet of rock.

They have over 100 kilos of 20%, enough for one bomb right now if they want to go to 90%+.

Once you get to 20% you only need 3 cascades and about 20 people in about three months to get to 90%.

They’ve thought of infiltrators.

[RavenLooneyToon]

Determine resonate frequency of structure. Write program for detonation sequence, drop 3 MOPs at three fixed elevations, detonate in sequence to “ring the bell”.

Follow with shaped rdx shelled U235 with PU core and infiltrate what's left with neutrons.

Plausible deniability of radioactive half life footprint due to the nature of the target.

Nothing living will survive. No one would ever know.

[444Flyer]

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[mulder1]

[JSteff]

We probably will not sell them bunker buster bombs... remember, we would not even sell them cluster bombs to hit the thousands of missile sites and factories the Pali's had.
And that was under Bush... so no-one can tell me obama will sell them ground penetrators to get the Iranian nuke factories. The Israel's need to look elsewhere for the tools.

[upcountryhorseman]

I thought Israel already had them.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The MOAB is for soft targets on the surface.

[Thunder90]

Drop two conventional MOP’s and follow up with a third with a tactical nuke in it.

[donozark]

The over reliance placed on aerial assets by so many, amazes me. After the aforementioned examples (post 13)and the more recent Kosovo Campaign, where 90% of Serbian Military assets withdrew unharmed, pretty much nails the argument shut.

Old saying,"Never wound a King." If in fact Israel/USA hit Iran? Then we better f'ing hit them! HARD!!!

[hattend]

October Surprise coming

Have to get the Won re-elected somehow, he can’t run on his record.

[hattend]

I saw that on Facebook yesterday. I had no idea we had that many F-16s at one Korean base that could all be running, ready for war, at the same time.

Awesome

[FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs]

There’s WAY TOO MUCH national security information going public these days. Keep the bad guys guessing!

[meatloaf]

I’m sure they’ve thought of infiltrators.

[soycd]

Why not a hardened whatever pointed tube with an x megaton crowdpleaser in it delivered from orbital speed with rocket boost? If nothing else, it would make a nice light show on its way to the target with a pretty good thump when it hits.

[FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs]

We (or Israel, most likely) don't need to destroy the facilities. We only need to make the them "UNIHABITABLE".

[FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs]

Drats.. That’s “UNINHABITABLE”!

[Truth29]

All this talk about MOPs and the near impossibility of destroying the underground facilities with any known ordinance. Why no discussion of Israel simply nuking the Persians...

[stephenjohnbanker]

The article says “”M A Y “” not WILL....nothing to go back on his word on.