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Offline rangerrebew

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Pentagon unleashes massive bombs in stealthy Yemen strike
« on: April 17, 2025, 05:41:30 am »
 
Pentagon unleashes massive bombs in stealthy Yemen strike
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According to American media, the Pentagon has decided to use the world's heaviest bombs. The GBU-57 MOP bombs were reportedly deployed in Yemen during attacks on the Houthis, carried out by strategic, stealthy B-2 Spirit bombers.
 
The use of these bombs by the U.S. Air Force was reported by The Aviationist, citing Fox News journalist Jennifer Griffin. The GBU-57 MOP bombs were said to have been dropped by B-2 Spirit aircraft.

To target locations in the Middle East, American bombers were repositioned from U.S. territory to the Diego Garcia base in the Indian Ocean.

When the Pentagon released a video in 2019 showing the drop of the GBU-57 bomb, commentators saw it as a warning to Iran. It remains unclear whether the use of this weapon in 2025 was due to operational necessity or, as six years ago, was mainly a demonstration of power and the capability to destroy not only targets in Yemen but also deep underground Iranian weapons depots.

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Re: Pentagon unleashes massive bombs in stealthy Yemen strike
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2025, 05:50:15 pm »
GBU-57 MOP bombs:
Message sent... to Iran.

Even so, my totally uneducated guess is that Iran has taken sufficient measures to protect their nuclear assets from weapons even as big as this.

To effectively "take them out", it's going to require... (cough)... more. Much more.
You know what that means.

(It's also what we should have done to the North Koreans in the 1990's... but didn't)
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