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Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on... by tptacek on Saturday June 21, 2025 @08:40PM (#44341914)
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.
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Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on... by trhway on Saturday June 21, 2025 @09:27PM (#44342315)
> 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."

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