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Israel asserts that it has achieved full command over Iran’s airspace in recent days, significantly hindering the nation’s nuclear program through precise strikes on strategic locations and personnel.
It comes down to one weapon.
Fordow, a crucial Iranian nuclear enrichment site, is shielded deep underground, up to 100 meters, making it nearly immune to Israeli airstrikes.
And observers say that while this facility is online, Iran’s nuclear program may be set back, but it’s not knocked out.
Retired US Air Force colonel and military analyst for CNN, Cedric Leighton, stated, “Only a single weapon globally can destroy a facility like Fordow, and merely one aircraft is capable of delivering such a weapon.”
That weapon is the “bunker buster” that has been brought up at times during the ongoing turmoil.
More properly, it’s the GBU-57, a massive ordnance penetrator (MOP).
The MOP is a six-metre, 13.6-tonne bomb that can strike a deeply buried target after multiple impacts with “pinpoint accuracy”, Leighton said.
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And the only plane in the world capable of carrying it is the USAF B2 bomber.
“Israel doesn’t have any of these planes, or any of these bombs, and that’s why they want the US to join their aerial campaign against Iran,” Leighton said.
President Donald Trump has given himself a two-week deadline to decide whether the US will do so.
