cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/32212238

By MEE staff Published date: 24 June 2025 22:12 BST
Last update:~17:20 EDT

"CNN reported on Tuesday that an initial assessment of the strikes by the US Defence Intelligence Agency was that the main components of Iran’s nuclear programme were intact and likely only set back by months.

This flies in the face of Trump saying that the US air strikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear programme. The White House trumpeted its bombing of Iran’s Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz enrichment complexes as a major military feat that surprised Iran."

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[–] 21 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Almost as though the Iranians built a bunker deep inside a mountain for this exact contingency.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Perhaps someone should have asked the question "do we have a weapon that can hit a nuclear facility under a mountain?" BEFORE blowing millions trying to bomb a nuclear facility under a mountain. World is run by a bunch of morons.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm pretty sure that the military understands in general that the bunker busters don't really work all that well.

    I think the more relevant factors in this calculation are (1) B2 is a technology from the 1980s, (2) B2 still looks fricken cool, (3) Tomahawk was also a big deal in the 1980s, (4) Israel already did all of the work suppressing air defenses, and finally (5) the big parade the week before kinda sucked.

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  • [+] -11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There are engineers, smarter than both of us combined, that worked on these weapons. These are problems smart men have worked on for decades.

    Given the expense, and rare usage, we only had a few dozen. How would you test such weapons? And this is key, without the intelligence of their effectiveness getting out. People are going to notice when you blow up fucking mountains.

    In any case, we'll gain some solid intelligence from this mission. Not that I supported it, quite the contrary, but we'll learn a thing or three.

    You are not smart for making fun of this thing. But if it makes you feel better?

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