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Trump announces that the USA has bombed Iranian nuclear sites. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] sp3ctr4l 90 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (33 children)

Please tell me none of these bombs were nukes...

Fucking amazing.

PNAC gets its way in the end, despite at least 40% of Trump's rise to political prominence being due to him being one of the few Republicans to criticize... you know, all the pointless meddling and wars in the ME.

... And Trump is almost single handedly responsible for all of this.

He tore up the nuke deal Obama made. He massively mismanaged every element of the Israeli/Palestine situation. Fucking stepson Kushner's gonna figure it out, don't worry.

Oh yeah lets piss off everyone and move the embassy to Jerusalem.

Beyond contemptible.

The man is a demon.

Kefka?

Is Trump Kefka, or is that an insult to Kefka?

Fucking childish demon clown that just wants to blow up the whole world so he can feel special.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (22 children)

It's the perfect crime. They bombed nuclear sites, which means there are going to be radiation spikes regardless of what kind of bombs they dropped, which means they could drop small nukes and probably get away with it.

[–] sp3ctr4l 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

See this is exactly what I am worried about.

The Fordow site is simply under too big of a fucking mountain for even our largest conventional penetrator bombs to actually significantly fuck up... unless you basically were able to pull off multiples of those bombs hitting the exact same point from nearly the same angle...

GPS guided bombs are accurate, but not that accurate... you'd have to throw like 20% to 40% of the entire US stockpile of these fuckoff huge conventional penetrator bombs to literally dig a hole through the mountain.

... Or, you drop one tactical nuke.

fucking not good

...

like this is what those air radar images were showing from 24/48 hrs ago.

That was probably the US's entire fucking B2 Bomber Fleet deploying.

...

EDIT:

Yep 24 to 48 hrs later and...

Apparently around a dozen 30,000 lb, GBU57s were used, there are at least 3 distinct impact sites visible from Sat Imagery...

And oh hey well, a whole bunch of people are now claiming that... did these do damage?

Sure yes.

Did they 'utterly obliterate' the entire site?

Not according to Israel, and a good number of others.

So... 1) thank God they did not actually use a tac. nuke.

Yep, they threw roughly 1/3 of our entire GBU 57 inventory at Fordow alone, and also the bombs were not accurate enough to inflict repeated, concise hits.