U.S Plan to Destroy Iran’s Missile Bases

The United States of America military has several plans for how to destroy underground bunkers. The US Army / Air Force and Marines can attack many of these sites are over 100 meters underground. Even the United States of America GBU-57 bomb, designed specifically for a doomsday scenario, can only penetrate up to 60 meters of mountain before it explodes. To destroy these sites, Israel and the US would need a better bomb. But even if such a bomb exists, splitting a mountain is no simple feat. Air craft carriers, f-18 fighters, b-2 bombers, b-21 stealth bombers and F-15s stastioned in Jordan air base would be available. Delta Force and other U.S special forces green berets and SOF units could deploy on the ground to take them out.

The existence of these deeply buried facilities was one of the primary motivations behind the U.S. Air Force’s development of the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bunker buster bomb in 2004. However, the actual capabilities of this bomb remain classified, and estimates suggest that it may fall 30 to 40 meters short of reaching the deepest Iranian facilities. How stable these underground bases are and whether they would collapse from bombing is not known.

Written by: Chris Cappy and Armando Galan
Edited by Syed

If we assume the U.S. stealth bombers could penetrate the air defense network and breach the 100 meters of earth covering these facilities, they would still face another obstacle: 2.5 meters of fortified concrete protecting the base. However, By leveraging new advances in GPS guidance, it's now feasible for a series of bunker busters to be targeted to the same location with B-2 Spirit stealth bombers which could increase its max depth and bring Iran's underground ballistic missile launch sites and nuclear facilities into range. The U.S Navy has assets like submarine launched missiels as well.

The U.S Air Force is working on new tactics to defeat these defenses. The non-explosive versions of the Guided Bomb Unit 57E/B variant could be used as a tool to prepare the site for future bombs. Essentially they would loosen and clear ground. This technique could be used in the dense terrain of the Zagros Mountains, allowing each bomb to burrow progressively deeper, breaching layers of reinforced concret

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[OLDMANTEA]

You don’t have to reach the bunker if all the tunnels above the bunker are destroyed.

[orienseast]

R: What do you call a blocked tunnel?
A: A tomb.

[dallasallen]

Anyone who think that these people won't build a nuclear weapon the minute they have what they need. Well there are no words to explain this to someone living under a rock.

[rogerthat]

"A former fighter pilot on x" 😆 🤣 😂 that's what we used to call Molly

[Suphlacki]

I work as a civil engineer and have had occasion to visit old (1910’s to 1930’s) bank vaults now abandoned . All the old vaults have alternate access via a (hidden) door that looks like a heavy duty porthole. Just enough to climb through. Think about it, failed explosive on the main vault door during a robbery or an earthquake…either might jamb the main vault door. You need some redundancy. You wouldn’t build a bunker without an emergency exit and entrance.

[DonVigaDeFierro]

The US can always force Iran to dig deeper until they find a Balrog.

[jimheimerl]

When I worked for a particular defense contractor, my team was developing tunnel mapping technology. The solution doesn’t always have to come from the sky. There are some ingenious ways to deal with the tunnels and underground bunkers without the use of gravity. Fun stuff.

[rogeredrinn]

The map showing Iran's mountain ranges was key for me, never seen those before. Thank you

[mctaguer]

Okay Cappy, I'll get this in so maybe you'll actually see/read it. I worked this exact mission ~a decade ago. Obviously, the specifics have changed, but a lot of the trends and imperatives have not. My thoughts:
-Yes, the GBU-57(which we have endlessly tweaked) is probably not able to get to the deepest stuff. The -72 wouldn't be in development or have $7B thrown at it if that weren't the case (although I suspect the need to defeat Chinese super-concrete elsewhere may be a driver as well). The double-tapping idea is new. That would require REALLY damned precise guidance. I'm sure it's possible or it wouldn't be mentioned. Wonder if that works as well on rock as concrete.
-The REAL challenge for some time now is less about how deep and hardened their facilities are; more about their program's breadth and redundancy. This is a major reason Israel wants us to do this mission--they know they don't have the capacity anymore. But really, neither do we. Because...
-This is not, nor will it ever be a mission to "take out" their nuclear capability. That ship sailed a long time ago. Their program is too-evolved; too redundant. This mission is a first strike to take out what is deemed to be a "sprint" by them to get to the finish line, so we can set their program back a MAXIMUM of ~two years. They absolutely could rebuild it, even if we're hugely successful. And taking that stuff out is a TALL order. CAN we penetrate and successfully prosecute a lot of this? Yes, but we'd almost assuredly not get it all. It's a LOT of shit.
-That CSIS notional plan is already huge. It makes this more than a first strike. It makes it all-out war. Big consideration.
-No, their ADA is crap. Barely a consideration a decade ago; probably even less now.
-Missile hunting has been/is/always will be a high-failure game...until we get precision strike.
-The Iranian strategy is to always have the OPTION to build weapons. This is not contestable. Also not contestable is whether or not Iran is TRYING to build weapons. This is farcical. Iran has NEVER decided to "build a weapon, " only to continue maturing & thickening its CAPABILITY such that, when/if it ever does it can do so despite all efforts to stop it. It has intentionally used this issue as an opaque Sword of Damacles (Kori Schake wrote about this 26 years ago. TWENTY-SIX) since the 90s. That basic reality has not changed.

[daniel]

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[markc]

The first casualty of war is the truth

[jasonfreedman]

What's amazing is how much public knowledge their military facilities and tunnels are known to the world.

[chrismalcomson]

You paint a nice neat rosey picture of the US attacking Iran. There's a few issues that are likely to put a spanner in the works. US bases all around the region that can easily be attacked from multiple countries in the axis. Gulf oil facilities that can be targetted and the world economy being put in a tail spin if the US went to war with Iran. Then you've got Russia and China who won't sit idely by and watch probably their most strategic partner in the region being attacked. Then of course the US navy has some very big aircraft carriers that make very big targets.. Finally Iran and the axis has home field advantage and have been preparing for just this scenario for decades..

[MAGAman-uywh]

There has to be an entrance somewhere, oh yeah, it could also be an exit. Air shafts anyone?

[TraianoLiberatore]

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face." 😂 -- Mike Tyson

[SmR]

If You Tube was a thing in the 1940s; "The allies are planning to land en mass in France, having dupped the enemy it thinking they will attack further east....here's how they will do

[CivDiv]

Tunnels.. glad you talked about this topic man!

[billwhoever]

8:15

The GPS system works passively, this means that you don't need your phone for example to send any messages to the satellite. The satellites work as some kind of beacon or "lighthouse" in the sky, a device can calculate its' position by finding the distance from each of the satellites visible. The distance is calculated with precise timing between the satellites and the delay on the receiving end.

I'm not sure if the US can block the usage of GPS for Iran by changing the pattern of operation of the transmitter satellites or by completely disabling them over Iran when the US army doesn't need them. It is very very unlikely the US intelligence services can know who and when uses the GPS.


Aside of the GPS there is also the Russian and Chinese equivalent systems that can work on the same hardware and might be online when GPS is not. Most modern weapons, even the US ones, probably use all 3 or are designed to be capable of using all 3, they just call it GPS in the west.

[NaoMeChates]

Yes, didn't you see the documentary 'Top Gun: Maverick'?

[tkg__]

We all know there is a Stargate programme inside Cheyenne.