Posted on 06/19/2025 8:31:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
To penetrate that deep you need high velocity.
JMO
I don’t find it hard to believe that Israeli pilots have been trained to fly B-2s and B-52s.
Keep hitting the significant targets in Iran
We could drop it for them and not disclose that. The world would hear that Fordo was destroyed, with no details provided.
The Israelis have continued to surprise almost everyone who is an “expert”.
I often wonder why these articles with a question in the headline never answer them.
"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead." It would be disclosed.
>>”I don’t find it hard to believe that Israeli pilots have been trained to fly B-2s and B-52s.”
If I’m not mistaken, only the USAF possesses B-2s. I’m not sure about B-52s.
The best case scenario is Israel being able to finish the job without our direct involvement.
I don’t know for sure but it’s possible that Russian “weather” RORSATS like our “weather” RORSATS can “see” things from above
And there are non-ocean birds looking down as well
We could allow an Israeli pilot to fly one of our planes (maybe US co-pilot). I'm sure one IDF's best wouldn't have a problem successfully dropping a bunker buster on Fordow.
There would be no guarantee that it’s completely taken out.
Mossad sets up a drill on the surface, drills down, and pumps in the appropriate explosives. detonates, repeat until the ground penetrating radar says the bunker complex is collapsed. No need to kick the door in, or use complex bombs. Hell the Iranian army ( not the irgc) might help them.
Good question!
........ I dunno ..... Probably doesn't matter any more ..... Like the old saying goes .... "Timing is Everything" ..... Since this critical response has been slow walked to death ..... There is no longer an element of surprise and Iran has now, more than likely, had enough time to remove and hide critical assests that will allow them to reconstitute and resurect their program when they are capable at a later date.
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People drill holes without massive charges. The big problem was if they had to do it in one air attack that snuck in before the Iranians knew they were under attack. Further waves of planes risked getting shot down by a fully-alert Iranian air defense.
Now that Israel controls the air, its bombers can drill at leisure. They’re standing aside, waiting for Trump to do the honors, let him cut the ribbon, so he can claim he ended the Iranian nuke. If he decides not to, they will do the necessaries, complete the mission either with smaller JDAMs dropped one after another, or pallets of explosives precision-dropped and rigged by air-dropped demolition specialists.
Why wouldn’t there be a rocket assist package strapped to the bomb to get it from 260 mph up to 500 mph? You’d light it for the final flight stage.
[Mossad sets up a drill on the surface, drills down, and pumps in the appropriate explosives. detonates, repeat until the ground penetrating radar says the bunker complex is collapsed. No need to kick the door in, or use complex bombs. Hell the Iranian army ( not the irgc) might help them.]
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