US began secretly designing bombs specifically to target Irans Fordow 15 years ago

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen.Dan Caine revealed that the US began constructing its heavy-duty bunker buster bombs roughly 15 years ago after learning about Iran’s ultra-secretive Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, which is cut about half a mile into a mountain.A Defense Threat Reduction Agency officer was briefed about the construction of the site in 2009, and officials quickly determined that the US did not have a “weapon that could adequately strike and kill this target.”So they began construction of the 30,000-pound GBU-57 series MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator) bunker busters.“We had so many PhDs, working on the MOP program, doing modeling and simulation that we were quietly and in a secret way, the biggest users of supercomputer hours within the United States of America,” Caine explained during a Thursday press conference.“In the GBU-57, which all of you, I know, know, is a 30,000-pound weapon dropped only by the B-2.

It’s comprised of steel, explosive and a fuse programmed specifically for each weapon to achieve a particular effect inside the target,” he added.“Each weapon had a unique desired impact, angle, arrival, final heading and a fuse setting.The fuse is effectively what tells the bomb when to function.

A longer delay in a fuse, the deeper the weapon will penetrate and drive into the target.”...