Big Badda-Boom: Why Only One Plane and One Bomb Can Crack Fordow

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Nice explanation of the bunker buster

Big Badda-Boom: Why Only One Plane and One Bomb Can Crack Fordow
PJ Media

There is literally only one bomber and one bomb to make the big badda-boom that could destroy Iran's last remaining nuclear enrichment plant from the air.

Earlier today, when I wrote that the destruction of the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP) is the only "path to peace" with the Islamic Republic, I honestly had no idea how limited the options were. There was also some confusion expressed in the comments.

If you’ll give me five more minutes, I’ve done the research to clear it all up.

Several VIP commenters expressed enthusiasm for dropping a MOAB on Fordow. Surely, at 30 feet long, more than three feet in diameter, and with 18,700 pounds of H-6 — a high-explosive mixture more powerful than TNT — a couple of MOABs ought to take Fordow off the map, right?

Not so fast. Officially known as the GBU-43, MOAB doesn't make the right kind of boom.

It's all in the name.

While everybody knows it as the Mother of All Bombs, MOAB officially stands for Massive Ordnance Air Burst.

But "air burst" is important. MOAB is so big that it gets pushed out of the back of a cargo plane, instead of a bomber, is slowed by parachute before impact, and then its special fuse causes all that H-6 to go BOOM a few feet above the ground, obliterating pretty much anything within a massive — but horizontal — mile-wide blast radius.

In other words, MOAB is good for when you want to make a whole bunch of doods on the ground go away very quickly. But when you need to reach out and touch someone deep underground, you need what the U.S. military calls a Massive Ordnance Penetrator. Yes, that's a MOP they use to clean up those deep stains.

So I understand the confusion, I really do — there's no way "MOP" could ever sound nearly as cool as "Mother of All Bombs."
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/06/17/explainer-theres-just-this-one-way-to-make-the-biggest-badda-boom-n4940880

[Lando Lincoln]

Thanks for that.

[Fishrrman]

Drop the first one.

And then... follow up with a SECOND one, just to be sure.