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Matthew28

(1,856 posts) Tue Jun 24, 2025, 02:21 PM Jun 2025

The question is why did the bunker busters fail? WTF would be needed to destroy these bunkers? [View all]

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The question is why did the bunker busters fail? WTF would be needed to destroy these bunkers?

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The question is why did the bunker busters fail? WTF would be needed to destroy these bunkers? [View all] Matthew28 Jun 2025 OP

We hit this bunker with half a dozen busters and it did almost nothing Matthew28 Jun 2025 #1

Duh, they buried them real deep. This was known. harumph Jun 2025 #2

The concrete, steel/iron rod enforced Maginot Line in France from WWll is still there, and it's above ground. brush Jun 2025 #30

This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Jun 2025 #3

I'm not "gleeful" but I don't like performative actions by Trump whose only purpose is to pump his poll nos. harumph Jun 2025 #9

This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Jun 2025 #15

I hear what you're saying - but the materials were removed from where we knew they were harumph Jun 2025 #16

What would be needed? Thinner mountains. LastDemocratInSC Jun 2025 #4

They failed because the G.O.P. draft-dodger pity-party parade was so lame and offensive BoRaGard Jun 2025 #5

A Nuke? OC375 Jun 2025 #6

Big Beautiful Bunkers survived ? chelsea0011 Jun 2025 #7

There is one way to get to them sarisataka Jun 2025 #8

LardASS Needs to Be "on Point" Next Time... MrWowWow Jun 2025 #38

I came, I saw, I lied usonian Jun 2025 #10

one suspects do not go deep snuff. nt msongs Jun 2025 #11

W61 EPW LudwigPastorius Jun 2025 #12

The W61 was replaced with the new and improve B61-13 nuclear gravity bomb Brother Buzz Jun 2025 #21

Trump knows more about "the nuclear" than any president. LudwigPastorius Jun 2025 #25

Why is everyone misreading this story? WarGamer Jun 2025 #13

So their nuclear program as Trump put it, "was totally obliterated"? BannonsLiver Jun 2025 #33

Did you read what I wrote earlier? WarGamer Jun 2025 #35

He will blame Obama and/ or Biden newdeal2 Jun 2025 #14

While I'm sure the strikes were NOT as successful purple_haze Jun 2025 #17

It appears they have many things in tunnels pwb Jun 2025 #18

That was what I heard, too..... BigmanPigman Jun 2025 #20

Israel has them, so of course Iran wants them. Now that idiot trump has... brush Jun 2025 #34

Iran did an analysis prior to building the bunkers jmowreader Jun 2025 #19

Their labs are deeper than our bombs can penetrate Arazi Jun 2025 #22

"Bunker Busters" are a marketing ploy by the defense industry Prairie Gates Jun 2025 #23

Knock-Knock... Who's th JoseBalow Jun 2025 #24

You and I know what would work. usonian Jun 2025 #26

Maybe they could have dropped that stupid Jan6'er with the horns to pierce the bunker! RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Jun 2025 #27

Look on the bright side. The Defense Department just gave us a fabulous new tongue twister DFW Jun 2025 #28

Hitting them accurately. marble falls Jun 2025 #29

Could it be because, the bunkers were made to stand up to anything BootinUp Jun 2025 #31

How does CNN "confirm" any of this? Melon Jun 2025 #32

"WTF would be needed to destroy these bunkers?" ecstatic Jun 2025 #36

There is a reason that NORAD is located within Cheyenne MOUNTAIN Metaphorical Jun 2025 #37

I have a "bunker buster" shovel in my garage. Girard442 Jun 2025 #39

Wonder how much this egomaniacal exercise cost the taxpayers. Vinca Jun 2025 #40