Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on...
by nradov on Saturday June 21, 2025 @08:40PM
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Unauthorized in the sense of a violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which Iran is a signatory. Whether Iran is actually violating the treaty is a matter of some dispute.
Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on...
by tguvot on Sunday June 22, 2025 @01:06AM
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it's declared to be in violation https://www.reuters.com/world/china/iaea-board-declares-iran...
Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on...
by tptacek on Saturday June 21, 2025 @08:40PM
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It's literally an anvil they drop out of the sky hoping to punch through structures like an aerial drilling platform. I guess it's dope, but it seems like cartoon armament to me.
Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on...
by trhway on Saturday June 21, 2025 @09:27PM
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> I guess it's dope, but it seems like cartoon armament to me.
The first bunker-buster :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_bomb
"According to an anecdote, the idea arose after a group of Royal Navy officers saw a similar, but fictional, bomb depicted in the 1943 Walt Disney animated propaganda film Victory Through Air Power,[Note 10] and the name Disney was consequently given to the weapon."
Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on...
by cwmoore on Saturday June 21, 2025 @09:31PM
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Curious too. I can’t even imagine driving a 16ton nail through hundreds of feet of hard rock and reinforced concrete.
Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on...
by missedthecue on Sunday June 22, 2025 @01:53AM
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Not physically possible. You can get through hundreds of feet of loosely compacted soil and gravel but high performance concrete? 8-15m max.
If they built the facility out of 30,000psi concrete, they'd be lucky to pen 4 meters with a direct hit, nevermind the 80m of limestone above it.
The GBU-57 is dope. Really curious to see how well it worked here