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The US military has a long history of making technically true statements about it's weapons, but which are still misleading. If a bomb can actually rip through
by sophacles 2y ago
The US military has a long history of making technically true statements about it's weapons, but which are still misleading.
If a bomb can actually rip through 200 meters of cement and ground, then the 60 meter statement is also true.
It also has a history of revealing the actual limits of weapons systems, but only after better capabilities exist (with the limits of those still classified or understated) - that is the 60M limit was the max of the old bomb and they don't need to know about the new one.
- 542354234235 2y agoThis feels overly dismissive of the difficulty, but here is a more detailed article if you are interested. https://www.twz.com/iranian-underground-nuclear-facility-may-be-a-hard-target-for-americas-biggest-bunker-busters https://www.twz.com/iranian-underground-nuclear-facility-may...
- sophacles 2y agoI can see how it comes off as dismissive my bad - it was intended to be a "take such analyses with a grain of salt if you aren't privvy to classified, relevant information".