U.S Plan to Destroy Iran’s Missile Bases

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The United States of America military has several plans for how to destroy underground bunkers. The US Army / Air Force and Marines can attack many of these sites are over 100 meters underground. Even the United States of America GBU-57 bomb, designed specifically for a doomsday scenario, can only penetrate up to 60 meters of mountain before it explodes. To destroy these sites, Israel and the US would need a better bomb. But even if such a bomb exists, splitting a mountain is no simple feat. Air craft carriers, f-18 fighters, b-2 bombers, b-21 stealth bombers and F-15s stastioned in Jordan air base would be available. Delta Force and other U.S special forces green berets and SOF units could deploy on the ground to take them out.
The existence of these deeply buried facilities was one of the primary motivations behind the U.S. Air Force’s development of the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bunker buster bomb in 2004. However, the actual capabilities of this bomb remain classified, and estimates suggest that it may fall 30 to 40 meters short of reaching the deepest Iranian facilities. How stable these underground bases are and whether they would collapse from bombing is not known.
Written by: Chris Cappy and Armando Galan
Edited by Syed
If we assume the U.S. stealth bombers could penetrate the air defense network and breach the 100 meters of earth covering these facilities, they would still face another obstacle: 2.5 meters of fortified concrete protecting the base. However, By leveraging new advances in GPS guidance, it's now feasible for a series of bunker busters to be targeted to the same location with B-2 Spirit stealth bombers which could increase its max depth and bring Iran's underground ballistic missile launch sites and nuclear facilities into range. The U.S Navy has assets like submarine launched missiels as well.
The U.S Air Force is working on new tactics to defeat these defenses. The non-explosive versions of the Guided Bomb Unit 57E/B variant could be used as a tool to prepare the site for future bombs. Essentially they would loosen and clear ground. This technique could be used in the dense terrain of the Zagros Mountains, allowing each bomb to burrow progressively deeper, breaching layers of reinforced concret
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