US giant bunker-buster bomb project rushed since Iran's Qom site discovered
DEBKAfile Special Report
September 28, 2009, 6:26 PM (GMT+02:00) Estimated location of Qom enrichment plant
Estimated location of Qom enrichment plant
The Pentagon has brought forward to December 2009 the target-date for producing the first 15-ton super bunker-buster bomb (GBU-57A/B) Massive Ordinance Penetrator, which can reach a depth of 60.09 meters underground before exploding. DEBKAfile's military sources report that top defense agencies and air force units were also working against the clock to adapt the bay of a B2a Stealth bomber for carrying and delivering the bomb.
The Pentagon has ordered the number of bombs rolling off the production line increased from four to ten - a rush job triggered in May by the discovery that Iran was hiding a second uranium enrichment plant under a mountain near Qom - a discovery which prompted this week's international outcry.
Congress has since quietly inserted the necessary funding in the 2009 budget.
All this urgency indicates that the Obama administration has been preparing military muscle to back up the international condemnation of Iran's concealed nuclear bomb program, its sanctions threat and his willingness to join the negotiations with Iran opening on Oct. 1 in Geneva. Tehran may have to take into account a possible one-time surgical strike against its underground enrichment facility as a warning shot should its defiance continue. In particular, the world powers this week demanded that Iran open up all its nuclear facilities and programs to full and immediate international inspection. Failure to do so could bring forth further US military action.
According to our military sources, the earliest date for the accelerated Pentagon program to produce a super bunker buster bomb mounted on a stealth bomber is December 2009 or January 2010. This too is three years ahead of its original schedule.
Pressed into service are two US Air Force research centers for work on adapting the radar-evading stealth bomber to the giant bomb: the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base and the Munitions Directorate and Air Armament Center, both headquartered at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.
Last month, DEBKAfile quoted Air Force Lt. Gen. Mark Shackelford as disclosing that the Pentagon had decided to accelerate the production of 10-12 giant bunker buster bombs in response to intelligence received of Iranian and North Korean underground nuclear plants.
How come we never hear about this stuff here? hmmm
If the cell phone towers detect a phone in motion could it not be shut off? Just a thought. I do remember surviving when one had to actually to stop at a phone.
We here in michigan call it Foxhole news, the bad thing is that I may still watch it for the weather for a few minutes, other than that Murdoch can go to hell.
Call me old fashion, but I'm just want use the web relatively the old way, you know email, browsing, maybe s(ftp). I feel secure enough patching on regular basis and being fairly paranoid that my machine is okay. (Thanks to sysinternals among other things)I don't even have a AV anymore). Of course in a Enterprise situation there is more to lose than my information, so that changes everything.
And of course Vista is a pain, not that Windows isn't in general. What do you all think of this home user approach for experienced IP person?
From what I've seen - the whole community, Doctors, Nurses and staff have more pressing ideas of what they want to accomplish other than looking at a bsod; or dumb terminals. They are busy actually caring for patients. That being said I wish they were more tech savy.
The weather is fine, for you Detroit bashers here are some pluses: we have four seasons here, we have a vibrant music scene. Lake St. Clair and the Detroit river is a awesome fishery.
People from Ohio come here to go up north which is awesome as well.The only reason people here would go Ohio is Cedar Point.
No way have I found a BB device less painful to support than a Windows Mobile phone. Both have there problems, most time it's the provider or user. If you have a good running Exchange server(s) I'll take a BB everytime.
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Someone tell the oceans, what will the fish do?
Who cares?
While nice there's nothing on tv that would compel me to spend money on it....for 4.95 you can get a basic Netflix plan.
That's true, sometimes when I've been stuck on a problem - I need another pair of eyes for a better perspective.
Well to bad Amsterdam didn't do the same for the idiot who tried to blow up the plane for Detroit
Who's empty headed? I would say you.
Yes you should be paid. Or otherwise compensated.
Does this explain how martial artists can break bricks with hands or feet. how about the folks who walk over hot coals?
your sig says all
Isn't that what alias records are for?
If Iran would to launch a nuke? We or Isreal would flatten the country in minutes.
US giant bunker-buster bomb project rushed since Iran's Qom site discovered
DEBKAfile Special Report
September 28, 2009, 6:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
Estimated location of Qom enrichment plant
Estimated location of Qom enrichment plant
The Pentagon has brought forward to December 2009 the target-date for producing the first 15-ton super bunker-buster bomb (GBU-57A/B) Massive Ordinance Penetrator, which can reach a depth of 60.09 meters underground before exploding. DEBKAfile's military sources report that top defense agencies and air force units were also working against the clock to adapt the bay of a B2a Stealth bomber for carrying and delivering the bomb.
The Pentagon has ordered the number of bombs rolling off the production line increased from four to ten - a rush job triggered in May by the discovery that Iran was hiding a second uranium enrichment plant under a mountain near Qom - a discovery which prompted this week's international outcry.
Congress has since quietly inserted the necessary funding in the 2009 budget.
All this urgency indicates that the Obama administration has been preparing military muscle to back up the international condemnation of Iran's concealed nuclear bomb program, its sanctions threat and his willingness to join the negotiations with Iran opening on Oct. 1 in Geneva. Tehran may have to take into account a possible one-time surgical strike against its underground enrichment facility as a warning shot should its defiance continue. In particular, the world powers this week demanded that Iran open up all its nuclear facilities and programs to full and immediate international inspection. Failure to do so could bring forth further US military action.
According to our military sources, the earliest date for the accelerated Pentagon program to produce a super bunker buster bomb mounted on a stealth bomber is December 2009 or January 2010. This too is three years ahead of its original schedule.
Pressed into service are two US Air Force research centers for work on adapting the radar-evading stealth bomber to the giant bomb: the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base and the Munitions Directorate and Air Armament Center, both headquartered at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.
Last month, DEBKAfile quoted Air Force Lt. Gen. Mark Shackelford as disclosing that the Pentagon had decided to accelerate the production of 10-12 giant bunker buster bombs in response to intelligence received of Iranian and North Korean underground nuclear plants.
How come we never hear about this stuff here? hmmm
If the cell phone towers detect a phone in motion could it not be shut off? Just a thought. I do remember surviving when one had to actually to stop at a phone.
We here in michigan call it Foxhole news, the bad thing is that I may still watch it for the weather for a few minutes, other than that Murdoch can go to hell.
Amen to that.
I don't know all about that. Have you ever been to Africa? I do think our ancestors our from there. Anyone?
No please don't. We all would like you to make the trip.
Yep sounds like a lame job. Then again there not alot of good jobs out there IMHO.
Call me old fashion, but I'm just want use the web relatively the old way, you know email, browsing, maybe s(ftp). I feel secure enough patching on regular basis and being fairly paranoid that my machine is okay. (Thanks to sysinternals among other things)I don't even have a AV anymore). Of course in a Enterprise situation there is more to lose than my information, so that changes everything.
And of course Vista is a pain, not that Windows isn't in general. What do you all think of this home user approach for experienced IP person?
From what I've seen - the whole community, Doctors, Nurses and staff have more pressing ideas of what they want to accomplish other than looking at a bsod; or dumb terminals. They are busy actually caring for patients. That being said I wish they were more tech savy.
The weather is fine, for you Detroit bashers here are some pluses: we have four seasons here, we have a vibrant music scene. Lake St. Clair and the Detroit river is a awesome fishery.
People from Ohio come here to go up north which is awesome as well.The only reason people here would go Ohio is Cedar Point.
No way have I found a BB device less painful to support than a Windows Mobile phone. Both have there problems, most time it's the provider or user. If you have a good running Exchange server(s) I'll take a BB everytime.
Dude go to these things called a bar. Better yet a blues bar. This is where they play music and women at these places like to dance.
What is this twitter?
Wouldn't there be one for something like a lease?