The Hindu·3 min read·hard
Will Trump’s bunker buster bombs punch through Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain?
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Vasudevan Mukunth
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This article examines the technical capabilities of the US GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) in the context of potential strikes against Iranian underground nuclear facilities. It explains the physics of kinetic energy and bunker-busting technology.
Conventional bombs explode on or near a target surface, with the explosion and fragments, e.g. shrapnel, rendering the bomb’s damage. But when a target is buried deep under a mountain, the soil and rock mass surrounding it can absorb enough of the blast’s energy to keep the target from being damaged too much.
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