US drops bunker buster bombs on Iran nuclear sites
Amaravati: US President Donald Trump showed his temper.. In an attempt to bring Iran to its senses over the nuclear deal, on Saturday, it dropped 13,000 kg bunker buster bombs on Iranian nuclear facilities. The United States, which has been siding with Israel in the ongoing war between Iran and Israel for the past 13 days, launched a direct attack on Iran yesterday. There were reports that not one or two, but six bunker buster bombs were used.
President Donald Trump himself said that the US military had attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.
America enters the fray:- The Fordow nuclear power plant, located in a mountainous area south of Iran’s capital Tehran, is built 90 meters underground. International media outlets have revealed that the US military dropped a GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bomb, known as a bunker buster, on the center.
Each bomb weighs 13,000 kg: Only America has bunker buster bombs. To use these, powerful aircraft are needed.
With the US modifying the B2 Spirit stealth bombers to be able to launch these bombs, each B-2 Spirit stealth bomber can carry up to 2 bunker busters.The bunker buster, weighing 13,000 kilograms, is about 6 meters long and measures 31.5 inches in circumference. The bunker buster bomb has the ability to penetrate underground and destroy targets there. It creates destruction that penetrates 200 feet of soil and 60 feet of concrete.
