12 powerful bunker buster bombs and 30 Tomahawk missiles to take out Iran’s nuclear sites

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According to Fox News host Sean Hannity, who spoke with Trump shortly after the mission, Fordow was simply “gone.” Hannity, relaying info from Trump insiders, said the infamous underground facility was “wiped out” like it never existed. A US military official later backed it up, confirming Fordow had been “taken off the table.”

President Donald Trump said that the US “completely obliterated” Iran’s notorious Fordow nuclear site by dropping a dozen massive 30,000-pound “bunker buster” bombs from American B-2 stealth bombers.

Weighing 30,000 pounds, it’s designed to smash through rock and concrete, boring its way underground using sheer kinetic force before exploding. The GBU-57 can reportedly penetrate about 200 feet beneath the surface, and when dropped in succession, the bombs act like a drill that goes deeper with each hit.

The only way to deliver it is via the B-2 stealth bomber, a $1 billion aircraft exclusively owned by the US Air Force. The bomber — designed by Northrop Grumman — first saw combat in Kosovo in 1999 and has since made rare appearances in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and most recently Yemen, where it targeted Houthi rebel bunkers.

For this mission, the B-2s took off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, flying nonstop for 37 hours with multiple mid-air refuels. The bomber can go 7,000 miles without refueling, and 11,500 miles with just one, making it capable of reaching any global target in a matter of hours.

As one official told The New York Times on condition of anonymity, the B-2s were in and out of Iran before they even knew what hit them. The White House and Pentagon kept tight-lipped, refusing to confirm what exact bombs were used, but Trump later confirmed the B-2 bombers were used to carry bunker busters like the GBU-57, the Daily Mail reported.