Can an American bunker-buster destroy Iran’s nuclear mountain?

If the United States is in conflict between Israel and Iran, Iran is expected to play a key role in the destruction of underground uranium enrichment facilities.

This task will be almost GBU-57 E / B Mass Ordnance Penetrator or 30.000LB, known as 30.000LB clear bombs, or mop – the number one bomber’s number one bomber, the number one bomber.

A B2 has fallen from a secret bomber, a 6 million-long mop, more than 60 meters of rocks and soils with the transparent kinetic force – depending on the hardness of the earth. Because it is a sensitive guide, more than one bomb can be thrown into one point in theory.

The common bomb in the Arsenal of Israel gives a mop that affects many potentially destroying many things PusUnderground enrichment facilities, especially on Natanz website, 20 meters underground and 2-meter-reinforced concrete are thought to say.

At the same time, destroying the more protected Fundot object buried in a mountain of 80-meter rock and soil, which is not enough to develop a bomb for this special purpose.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, some of the most sensitive opportunities of Fordow, said that some of the most sensitive opportunities can deepen deeper and semi-miles metro.

“I’ve been there many times,” he said Ft this month. “Take a spiral tunnel down, down, down, down to get there.”

The absence of a successful bombing or even a number of strikes, or even a number of strikes, or even a number of strikes, or already enriched nuclear reserves, or previously reminded a similar difficulty that the United States has previously encountered.

Given the 1962 Cuban missile crisis during the Cuban missile crisis, the main concern was a potential failure to destroy all the goals – the President of the Kennedy asked to prefer the sea blocked and diplomacy instead.

“US Air Force was confident that only 85 percent of the goals were confident – there were plans for the occupation of persecution,” said Robert Pope, US military historical and author Bombardment to winA significant study of the 20th century bombing campaigns.

“In the Iranian case, how can the US National Security Council be sure how to get everything? This is a big issue,” he said.

Produced by Boeing, Mop was tested in the White Sands Rocket in New Mexico, but never used in active battle. Potentially offers a second problem.

“The mop is clearly intended, it will probably be taken at least two bombs, each will hit the same point,” said Pape.

“It can be good and I am sure that the US Air Force has technical capabilities. However, it was never done in the real war.”

MOP’s 22,000LB predecessor, known as the mother of all the bombs, was less powerful, but in 2017 was used to have a devastating effect in Afghanistan. To an Islamic state in the province of Nangarhar

It is first placed in 2011 and has been improved from time to time since today and is an improved and more targeted version of the MoAB.

The US arsenal is thought to be about 20 mops. Each bomb is about $ 4 million in the US dollar for 2011, for eight of them, for about $ 4 million.

Only B2 Spirit has been configured to carry and deliver the hidden bomber mop. There are 20 B2 bombers in the service, According to US Air ForceEach one has two mops, one carries in one of the bombs.

The bomber developed by Northrop Grumman, is a distance of 11,000 km or 19,000 km with a medium air refuel – to make almost any target in almost any world.

Despite the terrible capacity of both the mop and B2 bombers, any mission to destroy the Fordo plant said that it would face other tactical difficulties.

First, to throw more than one bomb at the facility, the B2 bomber may require to be sensitive to Iranian air defense.

“B2 is a secret bomber, but it’s designed to escape the radar – not in all respects,” said Pape. “For example, it has a very flat bottom – anti-air missiles may be as sensitive to 737 aircraft.”

The second challenge is as well as cleaning up a safe flight path to B2 bomber. The Israeli forces can be done using anti-radar cruise missiles that can produce any Iranian radar rigs that are not destroyed.

“However, Iran was reportedly reported that the United States was cut off in such a corridor,” he said. “Bombing raids can work well – but you need to start to know that it is never done before.”

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