US Unleashes Its Nuclear Site Bunker-Buster Bomb

[Purveyor]

UZI MAHNAIMI, TEL AVIV From: The Times June 10, 2013 12:00AM

THE US Air Force has used a 13-tonne bunker-busting bomb to destroy a replica of one of Iran's underground nuclear facilities, according to reports in Israel.

The results were passed by the Pentagon to Israeli officials in an attempt to convince them that the US is prepared to attack Iran's nuclear program and has the means to do so.

Details were leaked to Israeli newspapers last week.

The GBU-57B bomb took $US500 million ($526m) to develop and costs $US3.5m. Known as the massive ordnance penetrator, it is designed to be dropped from B-2 stealth bombers. Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Miller, a US Air Force spokesman, said last September that Global Strike Command had started to take delivery of the weapon.

The bomb can bore through more than 65m of rock and reinforced concrete at twice the speed of sound before detonating a three-tonne explosive charge. The 7m satellite-guided bomb is accurate to within 5m. Stealth technology is designed to make it invisible to Iranian air defences.

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[Gregorian]

1. Counterproductive efforts do not help our nation.

Health care, renewable energy, infrastructure, education. The list of things that 1/2 billion could have done is very long.

But no, military men have to masturbate over the damage they can do. It's just like the gun nut mentality. Power.

[Twofish]

2. Excellent.

Hoping they choose to stop what they're doing before this is necessary.