Washington – US Air Forces have received super-heavy bunker buster bombs, a spokesman with Pentagon lieutenant-colonel Jack Miller told reporters Tuesday.
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He said that Boeing had begun to supply the bombs to the Air Force Global Strike Command in September.
The bombs will be carried by B-2 bombers. Each bomb weights 13.6 tons and has a built-in satellite navigation system.
Some experts note that this type of bomb which is capable of breaking 18-meter thick concrete walls, is a perfect weapon for attacking nuclear facilities in Iran.
The government wouldn’t release information like this unless they were sending a message…
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, can you hear us now?
Would be a great addition to the IAF inventory!
Interesting, look from where the source of this article is
The bomb weights more than the plane..
minor clarification: The Russkie article translated the 30,000 pound figure into “metric tonnes”, which are 2,200 pounds each. Hence their clip said “Each bomb weights 13.6 tons”.
In the US standard of 2,000 pounds/ton, the number is, of course, fifteen tons.
The US already transfered GBU-28 Hard Target Penetrators to Israel in September. Their weight is 5,000 lbs. I wonder what the Israelis plan to strap it onto?
Up until today, the GBU-28: with a pinpoint accurate proportional navigation Paveway III seeker, and a hardened steel casing containing over 600 lb of Tritonal explosive, the GBU-28 is the most destructive precision non-nuclear weapon in operational service at this time.