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gab13by13

(29,067 posts)
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 11:15 AM Jun 22

Saying That We Obliterated Iran's Nuclear Facilities Is Most Likely False.

The military usually doesn't give a bombing assessment until it verifies the damage. Doing satellite images isn't the best way to assess the damage, boots on the ground is.

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson stated he doubted that our bombs could penetrate to the facility;

Most likely the bombs destroyed the entrances into the facility, which is significant.

Krasnov would have been more believable had he said that the bombs hit their targets and then waited for the assessment.

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mvd

(65,705 posts)
2. I'm sure it is
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 11:28 AM
Jun 22

Everything they say is a lie. Obama had a deal and Trump had to trash it in his first term. There’s no one competent in charge, which is very scary.

Native

(7,200 posts)
3. I read an article that detailed how far down the Fardow complex was and how far our best bomb could go before exploding
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 11:41 AM
Jun 22

and while I can't remember the exact numbers, our best bomb fell short by quite a bit - better than anything else, but not exactly sufficient. And, of course, Iran's first public statement was a diplomatic version of, hey guys, we moved our shit long before you got around to bombing us, so the joke's on you.

 

purple_haze

(401 posts)
4. Unsure
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 11:59 AM
Jun 22

but what I do know is this: those bombs can easily be stacked into same piece of dirt. If they were released several seconds apart, they could be used in succession to open up a channel into which the next one could enter, penetrating deeper with each successive hit.

If the 12 MOPs intel is correct that’s 2 per entrance. Probably didn’t destroy the facility unless they had a collapse but Iran can have fun trying to mine it out while Israel bombs anything bigger than a Temu mini-excavator.

The whole situation will escalate. Again.

Reference:



Fordow underground complex



Isfahan surface and underground complex

Uranium conversion facility (the lower half of the built up facility is for the manufacture of uranium dioxide and conversion)
Zirconium facility (the upper half of the built up facility is the zirconium production plant)
One of several tunnel entrances (roads leading up to the hills in the north lead into a number of tunnels and underground facilities)

Hitting entrances may not be the best tactic.

This could also have been a demonstration (more airstrikes to follow) or a test of Iranian cement technology (more airstrikes to follow).



Like I said.... Will escalate.... FML

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