While looking for a way to destroy the Forto uranium enrichment installation in, which is deeply buried in the mountains near the town of Kom, in the north of the country, although its precise depth is not publicly known, the Israeli ambassador to the United States states that only one country in the world can not have the world.
The bomb mentioned by Gehiel Later is GBU-57/B-also known as Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP). It is a 13,600kg GPS ammunition, with a 2,600kg explosive head, so heavy that it can only be thrown by the US Air Force strategic B-2 bombers.
According to the New York Times, Israel has neither the bomb nor the necessary aircraft to throw it. This means that any possible attack on Fordo can only be made by the United States.
“The head is made by a special high performance steel alloy,” the US military report says, “which allows it to penetrate deep into the ground and destroy reinforced shelters and tunnels.”
How could the bomb hit
However, the complete destruction of the installation is not guaranteed. Report by the Royal United Services Institute states that the GBU-57 can penetrate up to 61 meters deep-about 20 meters less than the calculated depth of Fordo.
“GBU-57/B would probably require multiple blows to the same targeting point to have a good chance of penetrating the installation,” the report said.
The retired US Air Force Colonel, Centrian Leighton, told CNN: “I will bet on repeated strikes against Fordo.”
“Repeated blows may work, but it is not certain,” said Peter Leiton, a former Australian Royal Air Force officer and current researcher at the Griffith Asia Institute, adding that there is no “guarantee of success or the ability to prove to be a prove”.
