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What is the bunker-busting superbomb used by the US to "wipe out" Iranian nuclear plants?

2025-06-22 19:44:36Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
What is the bunker-busting superbomb used by the US to "wipe out"
B-2 bomber

The US president dropped GBU-57 bombs on the Fordow site. "We wiped it off the face of the earth," he said.

Yesterday, the United States brought B-2 bombers to the base in Guam. The arrival was immediately “linked” to the possibility of action in Iran, although “no orders,” it was said, “have been given yet.” Each of them weighs 14 tons and costs 3.5 million dollars.

This order arrived a few hours ago: The United States bombed three strategic sites of the Iranian nuclear program. And they did so with weapons that only they have in their arsenal.

President Donald Trump revealed to Fox News host Sean Hannity that he had dropped “six bunker busting bombs on the Fordow site” and “30 Tomahawk missiles, launched from submarines, on the Natanz and Isfahan sites.”

The figures were later "clarified" by an official to CNN as "a dozen" bombs dropped on Fordow, to which two more would be added at the Natanz site.

The “Spirit,” as the B2 bomber is known in the jargon, is the only aircraft that can carry the GBU-57, the 14-ton super bomb designed to destroy bunkers at great depths. Just like the Iranian Fordow nuclear power plant, in fact, built inside a mountain.

The device was developed in the first half of the 2000s for use against hostile countries, from North Korea to the Islamic Republic.

And then it was modified to increase its destructive power with innovations that were never fully revealed for security reasons.

The GBU must penetrate the protective “shell” and then explode in order to amplify the effects within the target. It appears that recent updates have expanded the capabilities although there is no precise data on the depth and position of what will be destroyed.

A New York Times article revealed that numerous exercises conducted by the Pentagon have confirmed that several “passes” of the B-2 are necessary: ​​a first “launch”, quickly followed by others. Like a hammer “sticking” to a nail. Even more so if it has to pierce the defenses around the Fordow centrifuges, located – according to some experts, from 90 to 100 meters “underground”.

According to Trump, the Fordow location, after the attack, was "wiped off the face of the Earth."

Israel has its own bunker busters and has demonstrated their devastating use in eliminating key leaders of Lebanese Hezbollah.

Even in that case, the air force used percussion tactics, with a large number of bombs (about 80), one after the other, dropped on a series of buildings in the southern area of ​​Beirut.

It is also possible that he used the same method to behead Iranian military leaders.

But these weapons are not enough to attack some of the tunnels where Iran has hidden missiles or scientific research facilities. Hence the need for US support with the GBU-57.

For other targets, its arsenal would probably have been sufficient: but even in that case, American aid arrived in the last hours.

Technicians reiterate that the Fordow “mountain” was fundamental in the development of the program; at the same time, they reiterate that any attack could only slow down Tehran’s efforts.


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