. This morning, American media have informed of the willingness to do so by the US president, Donald Trump, although in the last hours he has played the mistake. , he said in public.
While the world endures breathing at the possibility of entry into the conflict of the world’s greatest power, attention focuses on the US weapons and, especially, on the possibility of deploying a 13,600 kilos pump that no one else has on the planet and that is what Tel Aviv needs to end the, well protected underground.
The GBU-57 E/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator, also known as “MOP”, is the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in the world, with an exceptional ability to attack facilities that Israel cannot reach with its own weapons, as it has already been seen in the days we have been offensive.
In 2015, the United States Air Force declared that the MOP was “designed to fulfill the difficult and complex mission of reaching and destroying the weapons of mass destruction of our adversaries located in well -protected facilities.” It is also known as the “bunkers destructive.” And destroying bunkers is precisely Israel’s goal.
The Iranian installation of Fordow, which is the deepest of those that I will be in its nuclear program, is built in a mountain, hundreds of meters underground, and just that is the type of strength that the MOP is designed to penetrate. If the installation remains accessible and intact, the Iranian nuclear program, which Israel is determined to eliminate, could even accelerate. “The entire operation should really be completed with the elimination of Fordow,” said Israeli ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, Fox News last Friday.
That’s where American assistance, and the MOP bomb would come into play. The US would probably use B-2 Spirit pools to launch the bombs. “A b-2 bomber, capable of silently flying extraordinary distances and launches a MOP, is practically the most powerful that can be put into play, in the absence of a nuclear attack,” explains, for example, the journalist of Colin Demarest.
“To destroy Fordow, for which the MOP was explicitly designed, at least two bombs would probably be needed, each impacting exactly at the same point,” said Robert Pape, US military historian, to the on Wednesday. “That may be fine, and I am sure that the US Air Force has the technical capacity. But it has never been done before in a real war.”
President Trump yesterday on Wednesday that Iran still wants to negotiate with the US and proposed to send a delegation to the White House, but that it was becoming “very late” for conversations and that could soon authorize attacks.
An American attack would probably cause reprisals against US bases and other objectives in the region, which could lead to the US to a prolonged conflict with Iran, which, however weakened it is still a powerful army.
The US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, refused to provide details about US military plans in Iran during an open audience in the Senate on Wednesday. He just said that, if Trump orders an attack, the pentagon “will be ready to execute it.”
