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In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say
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From this article it sounds very likely that the bunker buster attack failed.
The article is 3 years old
But the information still seems valid.
It's confirming your bias so you like it...
And I read that the US used more than half of its stock of these bunker-buster bombs in this attack, the largest conventional bunker-busters in existence. So they can't simply try again.
By your math, they absolutely can simply try again: one more time.
By my math, the bunker-buster bomb makers just got a big new contract.
something something DOGE of WAR something...
They can try one more time but worse
I mean they usually only do about 30 damage anyways.
Source
So Iran knew EXACTLY how strong they needed to make their defenses!
Pretty stupid of the American military to give that info to a game developer, that would obviously use it.
I love how unhinged random fan wikis sound without context. Here for instance: Bunker Buster, see also: Concrete Donkey and Buffalo of Lies
I hadn't clicked the link yet, but Concrete Donkey told me what it was immediately
My guess: that bunker buster attack was twice as successful as the missile attack on the the airfield in Qatar.
2 x 0 = 0.
Now accepting bets on when we will find out that Trump had a secret call with Ali Khamenei where they negotiated the whole thing ahead of time, thus explaining the movement of the Uranium out of the facility, the movement of our servicemen out of the airbase, etc. etc.
Why? The kinds of UHPC being discussed in the article weren't available even in the United States until the year 2000 but most of Iran's nuclear facilities were built between 1974 and 2005. Even their primary enrichment facility in Fordow, which was struck with MOPs, was started no earlier than the mid-2000s as it was still unfinished in 2009.
Basically the majority of Iran's facilities, even their major ones, are too old to have the kind of concrete being discussed in the article.
That's what they want you to think, but we have no evidence to either direction. And I doubt we will ever have a definitive answer.