Posted on 09/29/2009 12:06:49 PM PDT by Nachum
Tehran - Iran's nuclear chief said on Tuesday his country built its newly revealed uranium enrichment facility inside a mountain and next to a military site to ensure continuity of its nuclear activities in case of an attack.
Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi, who also heads the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, said the site near the holy city of Qom is next to an ammunition depot controlled by the elite Revolutionary Guard, Iran's most powerful military force. He said the only connection between the Qom nuclear facility and the Guard is the Guard would protect it against possible attacks.
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Laughable.
“the Guard would protect it against possible attacks”
Ooooooooo!
A Two-fer target!
Woo Hoo!
The guard will try to pick through the rubble after numerous ‘bunker-buster’ munitions serially burrowed into the depths of the mountain and detonated within the facilities below.
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Is it just me?
Bombs can be skipped horizontally, can they not? Like into tunnel entrances?
And if the Rev. Guard is next to an ammunition depot, isn’t that just a two-fer?
Or are they making it up?
Only Israel knows for sure and I imagine they’re not telling.
Yep. Mission planners like it when the target group together.
Yep. Mission planners like it when the targets group together.
Sounds to me they learned from NORAD.
No need to target the entrances, unless you just want to obstruct them.
The right munitions can tunnel several hundred feet into the earth and man-made structures but sending one bunker-buster after another into the same coordinates. Send them in sequence separated by 30 seconds or so to allow the rubble to quit moving - which might disrupt the aim points.
How deep ya wanna go is largely dependent on how many of your toys you intend to use .. to a point, and then they can’t go any deeper through the rubble.
Don’t we have a new bunker buster? I bet we would like to try it out.
Having over-flown the Zagros mountains, I can tell you that is some of the most tortured and rugged surfaces of the earth I have EVER seen.
My point is that a ground advance from the SW to the NE would be tough, deadly and slow.
Why bother?
Either those facilities get bombed now, or Tehran gets nuked later.
It seems like it would just be a lot easier to let the world come in and poke around a bit. I mean, this operation is for power generation only, right?
As long as there is a way into the facility, I have high confidence in our ability to get destructive ordinance in to ruin a whole bunch of stuff.
What are the specs on those deep penetrating, bunker buster low yield nukes? We might have to drill a couple of holes with the first two but I have confidence a third one could remove a portion of the mountain quite effectively.
Yes. The MOP - Massive Ordinance Penetrator: GBU-57A/B
“The MOP is 20 feet long and can penetrate bunkers up to 200 feet before exploding.
At 15 tons, the MOP is a third heavier than the previous “mother of all bombs”, the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, which was only 10.5 tons. The MOP also packs a whopping 5,300 lbs of explosives, which is 10 times the amount its predecessor bunker-buster, the BLU-109, carried. Basically, it’s massive.
The push for accelerated deployment is due to the increased perceived nuclear threats from Iran and North Korea. “
to say nothing of the B-61 nucular penetrator derivative...
The rugged terrain helps to limit the movement of the enemy forces too. In Iraq we basically went all the way on one highway.
After seeing how Saddam Hussein was able to operate with the corrupt UN, which much the same seems to be going on with Iran now, why out off the inevitable for later if we have the chance to take Iran down now?
Even if we blow up their nukes, they are still a major terrorist threat.
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