Iran threatened by U.S. buster bomb

Space War ^ | 10/08/2009 | Staff Writers

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

The Pentagon has acknowledged that it is speeding up plans to deploy a massive bomb capable of knocking out deeply buried enemy facilities. The giant "bunker buster" is believed to add fighting power to the U.S. arsenal against Iran's nuclear program, defense experts argue.

U.S. officials, however, have refused to confirm the connection.

The 30,000-pound massive ordnance penetrator is capable of penetrating up to 60 meters of earth, or a thick layer of concrete, before exploding. It weighs more than 13 metric tons, allowing just one such bunker buster to be carried by U.S. bomber aircraft.

"It is under development right now and should be deployable in the coming months," press secretary Geoff Morrell was quoted saying in a report by Defense News.

U.S. Pentagon officials said they had asked Congress in August to redirect $52 million in funding to the project in order to speed up production of the massive bomb.

After winning congressional approval, the Pentagon said this week that it had awarded Boeing's McDonnell Douglas a $51.9 million contract to "enable B-2 aircraft" to carry the bomb.

"The threats have been developing over the years," a Pentagon spokesman was quoted saying to U.S. media. "There are, without getting into any intelligence, there are countries that have used technologies to go further underground and to take those facilities and make them hardened. This is not a new phenomenon, but it is a growing one."

He said the first of the bombs would be ready by the middle of 2010.

[PIF]

Nope none of those old systems - russia had supplied them with some thing recent not s300 maybe TORs in part for the rebuilding of the russian base in syria, which now has or will have s300 s400s.

[M. Espinola]

Relating to the high level Turkish-Armenia normalization talks, all is not kosher, nor should it be in light of the Turkish genocide against the Armenian people.

'On October 13th, the Heritage Party issued a statement in connection with the signing of the Armenian-Turkish Protocols in Zurich, which indicates that the process of normalizing relations between Armenia and Turkey is imposed by the international community.

“Heritage” warns that during the following stages of normalization of relations Armenia will have to deal with the Turkish state, which systematically violates its obligations.

In their statement, the Heritage Party again criticized the activities of the Armenian diplomacy and Armenian-Turkish Protocols, highlighting their negative aspects. Heritage argues that signing of the protocols is illegal, since protocols were signed by the leadership, came to power through rigged elections.

The "Heritage" Party demands resignation of the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and calls upon all political forces to unite efforts.

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