Iran's Underground Nuclear Facility May Resist The U.S. Military’s Most Powerful Massive Ordnance Penetrator Bunker Buster Bombs

 

Warzone/The Drive: Iranian Underground Nuclear Facility May Be A Hard Target For America’s Biggest Bunker Busters  

The U.S.’s heaviest conventional bunker busters may face challenges penetrating new underground tunnels near Iran’s Natanz nuclear site.  

The U.S. military’s most powerful, deeply burrowing Massive Ordnance Penetrator bunker buster bombs, or MOPs, may be unable to penetrate a buried nuclear facility in central Iran, analysis of new satellite images suggests. The Air Force’s 30,000-pound class GBU-57/B MOPs are guided weapons specifically designed to penetrate highly fortified targets such as Iran’s underground nuclear facilities and can impact surfaces above targets with great accuracy. Most recently, a rare ‘live’ MOP was pictured at Whiteman Air Force Base, as you can read more about here.  

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Update #1: An Iranian nuclear facility is so deep underground that US airstrikes likely couldn’t reach it (AP)  

Update #2: US bombs unlikely to reach underground Iran nuclear site: Report (Al Jazeera)  

WNU Editor: It looks like The U.S. needs to build a bigger and more powerful bomb.