US seeks more powerful bomb to combat Iran's underground facilities

[123tim]

The Pentagon is seeking a more powerful bomb after acknowledging that the U.S.'s largest bomb, the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, is not capable of destroying Iran's most heavily fortified underground facilities, Fox News confirms.

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/27/us-seeks-more-powerful-bomb-to-combat-irans-underground-facilities/?intcmp=trending

[Gary4Liberty]

This says that not only does Iran actually and currently have Nukes but that they are all in deep deep underground bunkers that are so deep that current bunker busters cannot destroy them. The last I heard Iran didnt even have nukes yet and were trying to get the technology to make weapons grade uranium.

[HOLLYWOOD]

Big ass bomb 21ft long and Only deliverable by B-2 or B-52

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/USAF_MOP_test_release_crop.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/B-2_Spirit_original.jpg/300px-B-2_Spirit_original.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/B-52_releases_the_MOP_during_a_weapons_test..jpg/471px-B-52_releases_the_MOP_during_a_weapons_test..jpg

[CaptainAmerica]

bullshit. Just another weapons contract for some useless technology we already have.

[Ronulus]

We need a bigger bomb to handle Iran? Are they seriously that retarded? They basically acknowledge they WILL blow up Iran's nuclear facilities no matter what. This warfare mentallity is sickening.

[awake]

I can just see the Penta-goon release, 'People of the United States, tonight we had to use a low yield nuclear weapon to take out Iran's nuclear facilities. If we did not act , Iran would have gotten a nuclear weapon and would have terrorized the world with it'. 'This would have been unacceptable, as the only people allowed to nuke people is us'.

[acptulsa]

In 2005 the NIE Report confirmed that Iran didn't have a nuclear program, and now they have one so advanced that they've dug out an entire reinforced cavern a mile deep?

I see. Yet I still doubt they have anything much underground but oil.