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Washington Post: Iranian nuclear bunker not 'impregnable'
2012-03-01
Iran's nuclear facility built into a mountain bunker at Fordow is not "impregnable" to US bunker buster munitions, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing the testimony of US military planners.
That's nice. Will they use it when Israel is ready, or will they withhold the love?
The Washington Post quoted US officials as saying that while a single blow of the Pentagon's newest bunker buster weapon - the Massive Ordance Penetrator, may not successfully destroy the underground uranium enrichment facility, a sustained attack over a number of days would likely render the plant unusable.

US military planners see the "zone of immunity" which Defense Minister Ehud Barak spoke of as the point after which an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would be impossible, is still years away, according to the report.
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  MilPol + Terror retaliation in response At least this will provide excellent motivation for miscellaneous non-Iranian organizations and countries to keep slinging, flying and dropping ordnance on the Mullahs and their slaves.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2012-03-01 18:48  

#4  short of the Mullahs giving their consent a GROUND INVASION OF IRAN is what is required to truly stop Iran's NucProgs
You and whose army will invade and hold the territory? Been there, done that, got the T-shirt, don't want to go that way again.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2012-03-01 18:45  

#3  Difficult to leave at the end of one's shift in those hidey holes with 5 feet of molten glass glass covering the hatches.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-03-01 01:12  

#2  Technically, is still a moot point given Iran's vow of MilPol + Terror retaliation in response, as Iran's any Israeli attack as the same as a US attack.

By most accounts, short of the Mullahs giving their consent a GROUND INVASION OF IRAN is what is required to truly stop Iran's NucProgs, not merely LR Airstrikes - either that, or the US-World + Israel accept a Nuclear Iran.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-03-01 00:29  

#1  a sustained attack over a number of days would likely render the plant unusable Hit every air/heat vent, exit, electric transmission line & vehicle in motion - that would probably take a number of days.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2012-03-01 00:03  

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