Iran nuclear sites may be beyond reach of "bunker busters"

Reuters ^ | Jan 12, 2012

[sukhoi-30mki]

[Crapgame]

Well we will never know until we try. I say let’s stop all the chit chat and get on with it...

[Pox]

Such bunkers have to have a way in and out...

[DAC21]

Leftist Media planting seeds of doubt, who would have thunk it!

[MaxMax]

And try try again. Rattle the foundations of that bunker and radiation will end
it for thousands of years. I wonder if they opened any schools inside yet.

[Allon]

If you lined 3 or 4 of these in sequence, 30 seconds apart, wouldn’t that just keep digging the hole deeper until it was sufficient?

[rawhide]

I was thinking the same.

[massatoosits]

IDF sappers and Sayeret on a one way mission to penetrate and neutralize would not be a surprise.

[Texas Fossil]

Who said it had to be a “conventional” weapon?

[null and void]

Might be just as effective to bomb that damnable well...

[unkus]

If you lined 3 or 4 of these in sequence, 30 seconds apart, wouldn’t that just keep digging the hole deeper until it was sufficient?

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I think you’re right. The Soviets had planned to do just that, but with nukes, on Cheyenne Mountain, CO, NORAD HQ. I think it’s called “Hammering”.

Someone will correct me, I’m sure.

[Old Sarge]

Nuke it. We can be sure then...

[G Larry]

Not everyone in power believes we should have the means to go after such sites....

Sad, but true...

[John S Mosby]

Right thinking is rewarded. You are correct. Also available, should the target designation be accurate, might be the old "skip bomb" technique or better yet a cruise missile of a high explosive conventional nature.

We of course have non-conventional cruise missiles that are also flyable into tunnel openings.

[Kaosinla]

We can always use that earthquake machine that Chavez is always rambling on about :)

[tallyhoe]

Who said it had to be a “conventional” weapon? Not me! Use whatever it takes! Even Seal team 6!

[17th Miss Regt]

Yep. B-61 Mod 11. Digs in a bit and goes BOOM!

[DuncanWaring]

I heard that idea several years ago, but it involved spacing them closely enough that the follow-on bomb hit while the rubble from its predecesor was still in the air.

[17th Miss Regt]

Drop Obama into an administrative position in the program. Their program will be in an absolute shambles rather quickly and the budget will skyrocket.

[EERinOK]

That is correct Pox. There is a way in and out. Power gets in.

Why don’t the smart ones in the Pentagon just plan for destroying the power source. It takes alot of juice to run that operation, especially the centrifuges. they are piping in electricity, or generating it on site. Destroy the fuel and electric lines along with the sources. When they fix it, watch them with the eyes in the sky and destroy it again, and again.

You could do that the old fashioned ways, carpet bomb it, or with a deluge of cruise missles.