Above nuclear abyss: Why Putin is waiting for the US to drop a bomb on an underground object in Iran

But without the use of nuclear ammunition, it looks unrealistic. It should be borne in mind that the plant was projected to see that it would try to impress with the use of both conventional and nuclear weapons. From a military point of view, Ford is specially created to withstand attempts to destroy it. It is located 32 km from the sacred for Shiites of the city of Kum, built in a mountain range at a depth of 90 m under a solid rock. The plant was built secretly in 2006 - 2009.

Punching 90 m of a rock even with the use of American penetrating superbomba-the destroyers of GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) looks quite problematic. The characteristics of the bomb are impressive: the mass ~ 13. 6 tons, the length of ~ 6. 2 m, it is argued that it can punch up to ~ 60 m of concrete or solid stone. However, there are some doubts. Of course, you can try the "drilling" method - to drop one by one several such bombs, each subsequent will deepen deeper and deeper.

This is something that can work because in the Ford Merger area and dolomites, they are not as dense as granites. This is what the operation of operations of operations, which consider the option of Ford Superbomb. To lose each subsequent bomb so that it lay exactly in the already formed crater, will succeed up to 5 meters, according to the developers. But! GBU-57More tested mainly in a static version, that is, it was tightened into a deep underground tunnel and undermined.

Flight tests were also done during 2008-2013, but the bomb was dropped on unified concrete goals hidden deep in the soil. On the basis of these tests, they made a key conclusion about the penetrating ability to punch up to ~ 61 m of mixed soil-rock sticker or ~ 19 m of reinforced concrete. The GBU 57 has never been, neither in Afghanistan nor in Yemen against Hussites, there were only polygonal trials.

That is, there are doubts whether this superbomba can break through the thickness of marls and dolomites 80-90 meters, even in a way of sequentially dropping at one point of several bombs. Not to disgrace the American military power again . . . Therefore, the variant of using the B61-11 (Bunker-Buster) with regulated power is simultaneously modeled. The 50-kt capacity may well destroy the room at a depth of 90 m after pre-launch a couple of GBU-57Mop.

However, the use of thermonuclear weapons has a number of serious consequences, not only for Iran, but for the USA and all over the world. But this is a separate topic. If in Jerusalem and Washington it is heard that Iran is on the verge of nuclear weapons and threaten the whole world, then it clearly indicates that all options for preventive actions on the table. In particular, the impact on the Ford's thermonuclear bomb.

Despite the fact that the presence of ready -made nuclear warheads in Iran has not been proven. It seems that the story of the Iraqi weapon of mass destruction, which was never found after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime, may be repeated. Of course, Ayatol's regime in Tehran cannot cause us any sympathy. However, if the current MAGA Maga Maga Landar will cross the "nuclear threshold", then the signal will be sent to another by the Kremlin's owner, covered by "Velichi Roscii".