This Antibunker Ojiva of 13 tonsthat Israel It does not possesshe is able to sink into dozens of meters under the surface before blow. An almost characteristic unique in hands of Donald Trump, In case you decide intervene.
Why this pump?
Although in five days the Israeli army managed to decimate the Military command Iranian and numerous facilities“Many doubts persist about the effectiveness of Israeli attacks against the central nucleus of the Iranian nuclear program,” said Behnam Ben Taleblu to AFP.
According to this expert of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a center of American research of trend Neoconservative“All looks are put in Fordo.”
In this uranium enrichment plant “no damage has been observed“, According to him International Atomic Energy Agency (Oiea).
Unlike the facilities of Natanz and Isfahán, it is at great depth, to some one hundred meters undergroundbeyond the reach of the Israeli bombs.
“Only the United States has conventional capacity” for destroy an installation Of this type, Mark Schwartz, a American general who served in the Middle East and now an expert at the Center for Studies, assured AFP Rand Corporation.
This “conventional capacity”, that is not nuclear, is the GBU-57.
Scope
What makes this unique American bomb It is your ability to penetrate the rock and concrete.
The GBU-57 “It was designed to penetrate up to 200 feet (61 meters) underground Before exploiting“, Says the US army.
Unlike many missiles either Pumps That they detonate their load when impacting, these ojas breakbunkers seek first to bury themselves on the ground and only explode when they reach the underground installation.
These weapons are designed “with a very thick reinforced steel housing” to help “penetrate these layers of rock,” Dahlgren Masao, a weapons specialist at the CSIS Research Center in AFP, told AFP Washington.
This explains its weight: More than 13 tons and 6.6 meters long.
Its effectiveness also resides in its detonator, which It is not activated when impactingbut “detects when the pump reaches an open cavity” and “Detona when entering the bunker,” explains Dahlgren.
The design of this bomb was launched in the early 2000s. In 2009, a request for 20 units to Boeing.
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How do you throw?
The American aircraft B-2 They are the only ones capable of launch This bomb.
Some of these furtive strategic bombers were deployed in early May at the American base of Diego García, in the Indian Ocean, but in mid -June there was no trace of them, according to an AFP analysis of planetlabs satellite images.
Thanks to their long range, the B-2 that take off from the United States “are able to fly to the Middle East to make bombings; it has already been done before,” says Dahlgren, of the CSIS.
Each B-2 can transport two GBU-57.
If they decide to use them “they will not limit themselves to launching a (bomb) and voila, but will use several to guarantee 100% probabilities of success,” Vaticina Mark Schwartz.
Israel’s aerial superiority in Iran “reduces the risk” of such an operation, this retired general adds.
Consequences
An intervention of this type “It would have a high political cost for the United States“, Behnam Ben Taleblu estimates. And“It is not the only solution“He adds.
In absence of this American bomban Israeli attack against a complex underground As Fordo could involve “trying to attack entries, collapse what you can, cut electricity,” this expert lists. This strategy seems to have been done at the plant of Natanz.
There is also a recent nuclear and little known nuclear installation near Natanz “probably even greater depth than fordo“And” where one wonders what is happening there, “he concludes.