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260ft is around 79m. The bombs can penetrate around 60m of concrete. So one bomb, probably not, but they are able to follow each other in quick succession meani
by tus666 1y ago
260ft is around 79m. The bombs can penetrate around 60m of concrete. So one bomb, probably not, but they are able to follow each other in quick succession meaning 2 or three should be able to do the job quite easily, with accurate GPS positioning.
- shmoe 1y agoahh.. in my mind it was multiple hits spread over an area. This does make more sense.
- margalabargala 1y agoMedia is reporting that 12 were dropped on Fordow
- jen729w 1y agoAlso, surely – I have no expertise – but you don't need to totally destroy the bunker to render the operation basically dead, right? The land, roads, ingress points, elevators, security, everything around here is now FUBAR. Okay so you didn't "destroy the bunker", but how many years until it's functional again?
- sdenton4 1y agoThe bombs don't dig a hole, removing all matter for the next bomb to dig its way deeper...
- jandrewrogers 1y agoThe point is not to dig a hole. Penetration depth is a function of compression strength of the medium. Every bomb leaves a path of debris in its wake with negligible compression strength that subsequent bombs can pass through before expending their energy.
- missedthecue 1y agoBut they compact the material beneath the explosion.
- jandrewrogers 1y agoThat does not materially add to compression strength.
- missedthecue 1y agoThey can penetrate 60m of soil. They cannot penetrate 60m of concrete. Reinforced concrete at about 5000psi would only get penetration of 8-15m. The facility is beneath 80m of limestone which in the Qom formation is roughly equivalent to about 5000psi concrete. Beneath the limestone, sits the facility itself which is encased in high performance concrete. So these bombs need to pen 80m of 5000psi material and then a unknown depth of high performance concrete.
- reissbaker 1y agoThere is no public information about what kind of material 60m refers to, and the best guesses of reinforced concrete are 18m. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-57A/B_MOP https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-57A/B_MOP While a single bomb would be insufficient, you don't need that many to get to 80m. And US military assets are often much more powerful than publicly advertised...
- missedthecue 1y agoA bomb penetrating 18m of reinforced concrete doesn't excavate 18m of concrete. It would weaken it by some percentage through fractures and overpressure but you'll need to pen it again with the second bomb.
- dontTREATonme 1y agoThey dropped six.
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- saberience 1y agoSix spread across three sites, two on each site. I highly doubt the deepest site is out of commission.
- kcplate 1y ago
- 400thecat 1y agoyou don't actually need to completely destroy all the underground levels in Fordow. It is enough to cause enough damage so that the stored uranium contaminates the site, while being sealed from the outside world under the collapsed site.
- adastra22 1y agoThere is uranium stored there. It was moved out weeks ago.
- AnimalMuppet 1y ago> It was moved out weeks ago. Not saying you're wrong, but... source? And, if so, where was it moved to?
- adastra22 1y agoOnly Iran knows. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-858619 https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-858619
- lonelyasacloud 1y agoThere were an estimated twenty of these bombs in existence before the bombing; very little head room for throwing more of them down the hole if they haven't done the job.