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GBU-57A/B MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator) |
UPDATED 19 June 2025: The world waits for President Trump's decision to eliminate the Iranian Twelver regime's nuclear weapons program at the Fordo complex. The image above illustrates the only weapons system on earth capable of achieving that end: A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and GBU-57 MOP. And it will likely require several B-2 Spirits dropping their MOPs in succession to ensure the destruction of Iran's deeply buried Fordo nuclear weapons complex. When several B-2s were announced to have arrived at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean weeks ago, this is precisely the message that was sent to Tehran.
22 June 2025: The above image became a reality, times 12, on Fordo during the evening hours last night. The OPDEC employed by American armed forces was magnificent. Full coordination with the IDF was equally magnificent. American submarines also launched a hailstorm of Tomahawk SLCMs at Isfahan and Natanz nuclear sites. Reliable battle damage reports from Iran and the retaliation upon Israel will come out today. Iranian retaliation against the US forces in the Arabian gulf has so far not taken place.
OPERATION MIDNIGHT HAMMER
UPDATE: New Battle Damage Assessments (BDA) are becoming available now. The precision of the GBU-57 MOP drops on the under-mountain Fordo nuke site were beyond anything seen previously.
To say the impacts were "impressive" as a descriptive term is massively insufficient. All 12 MOPs entered the Fordo main cascade hall, and they did so via six initial impact points, meaning two 30,000 lb MOPs went through each of the same initial impact points with each successive MOP burrowing deeper and each 5,300 lbs of explosive charge creating successively greater damage.
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Two groups of three impact points. Via X. |
The B2 crews flew nonstop from the central US mainland, dropped their two-each precision ordnance onto a target the size of a washing machine, and then flew nonstop back to the USA. That's well over 63,000 pounds of very high explosives delivered with pin-point accuracy. Trump was correct, Fordo obliterated.
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US strike path same as IAF strike path into Iran |
The just under twenty trucks imaged at Fordo on Friday were delivering fill dirt to seal the entrances. This was done because the IRGC feared that special operations troops would enter the mountain facility. Any IRGC troops inside the sealed Fordo complex were likely vaporized.
More to come...