Why is it only the bomb to destroy Iran nuclear – under 300 footsteps
American military engineers designed the GBU-57 / B pump to destroy the deep buried bunkers with no radioactive fallout. This is the only weapon weapon that can reach the most difficult target of Iran
Maxar Satellite Diveny Diveny Overview at the Fordo Enrichment Facility in Iran on June 14, 2025. There is no damage.
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The challenge sounds not true: How do you blow a hole in a mountain of concrete and granite and kick what is kept under the nuclear line? The solution is a bomb with a weight of 30,000 pounds, like a city bus, but that is pressed by a cylinder thick and 2.5 feet thick. Since the Israeli conflict of Iran began last week, many quests centered on this weapon: GBU-57 / B, the most powerful bomb found underground. The question that many demands when the US – the only country with a bomb that will give it to Israel.
To see what GBU-57 / B and what Israel wants to weapon, it is important to know the presented target according to Institute for SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITYThe site has the ability to Make sufficiently enough uranium to make a nuclear warhead at length of days. It also depends on the bottom of a mountain, under 260 to 300-footed stone strengthened in concrete, and surrounded by a ringing air defense batteries. After Israel relieved Nuclear in Iraq in 20081 and Syria in 2007, Iran decided to exit many underground sites that were not reached under 5,000-pounds of Israel. Intelligence headings Iran proposed to construct in 2002, while Iran said the work began in 2007. Tehran acknowledged the existence of the site in September 2009.
The first three letters of the GBU-57 / B stand for “Tripped bomb bomb” (a precision bomb can be done at the target house), and this is the 57th plot of the bombs. The second B refers to the pump tackle (calls such as A / B, B / B, C / B, etc. used for each adjustment of military engineers). After US invasion of Iraq, engineers study the bunker who attacks small and older GBU models and found they did not get a little damage. Military is required to be a more powerful weapon to respect “nuclear taboo“A widespread accepted joint joint that the use of nuclear weapons is not mad and dangerous because radio development. Air Force Sheet Sheet It is referred to as “a weapon system designed to fulfill a difficult, complex mission in reaching mass weapons located in good protected facilities.”
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If dropped from 50,000 feet, the cruising ceiling for the B-2 Spirit bomb, the GBU-57 / B uses sophisticated plates to guide it to its target. While the exact speed of the effect is classified, estimated to exceed Mach 1-the speed sound (767 mph). This strike provides 800 to 900 megajoules (about 758,000 thermal units of Kinetish – compared to 170-ton Amtrak Acela train traveling 120 mph. In the bomb, according to a 2012 Congressional Research Service Service BriefingGBU-57 / B reported to the burrow of 200 feet of concrete or bedrock with a density of 5,000 pounds per square incks or parking-garage slabs). Then 5,300-pounds expossing charge firing.
GBU-57 / B is designed to develop this ability to pierce deep under the surface. Its nose has a heavy shape, like a gothic arch. Like such arcs are known for distributing weight effectively, bomb nose does not have sharp corners that causes air dragging. Then, in effect, the circular form spreads the first crushing flow of gradually by steel bomb bomb instead of concentrate on a main point. It allows to intensify to remain excluding world trips. Casing has high-sectional density. In this context, the density section refers to the ratio of a mass of something in the face size of the face of the first to meet any surface of the object that continues to move. A hammer flattened a board has high sectional density because it focuses on its mass in a small area; the pillow is not. In case of bomb, a good mass and momentum is wrapped in a small point. While humise in the nose and structured shock, the upper section density focuses on speed and energy, allowing the bomb to punch the stone.
About one fifth of the 5,342-pound warhead consisting of two explosives: 4,590 pounds of AFX-757 poils in PBXXN-114. Both creates a larger blow than the first bombs while sufficiently unreasonable to survive the shock of the first strike. The detonation itself is timed by a specialist fuse to be programmed from within Bomber Cockpit. The fuse “counts the” layers of stone or concrete, “hearing” the hole in a tunnel or fire room with a small fee within the target. Released energy almost equals about three to four tons of TNT. But because most of the 30,000 pounds of pump are hardened iron, most of its harmful effects from its kinetic punch, provided by Sonic Speed.
Although suspected of nuclear weapons, Israel is more respectful for nuclear taboo. To destroy the Fordo without them, GBU-57 / B should be a B-2 spirit designing to throw the bomb (having the ability to release two, one from each bay). If Israel is not, in theory, chip only on the periphery of the Fordo – by destroying electricity sources, quitting rides or shipping in the sidelines – while Uanium continues to improve below. Fordo is very good to protect a Royal United Services Institute op-ed says “Even GBU-57 / B likely takes several effects at the same point with a good opportunity to enter the facility.” In spite of the media claim that the GBU-57 / B bombs are used to hit HOUTHI targets in Yemen, the US Air Force says these weapons have have not been used in combat And that’s just a few dozen covered. So far, the US refused to surrender Israel to any of them – or the B-2 spirit spirit needed to drop them and collapse a mountain.
