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Center for Research on Globalization
February 24, 2018
Israel has a few dozen laser-guided bunker buster bombs (the GBU-28). The Jericho III is an Israeli three-stage solid propellant missile with a payload of more than a ton and capable of carrying multiple low-yield independently targeted reentry warheads. All the targets in Iran fall within its range of up toÃâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
January 8, 2018
Alongside its nuclear arsenal, the B-2 will carry a wide range of conventional weapons to include precision-guided 2,000-pound Joint Direct Attack Munitions, or JDAMs, 5,000-pound JDAMs, Joint Standoff Weapons, Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles and GBU 28 5,000-pound bunker buster weapons,Ãâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
October 31, 2017
The Israeli Air Force would attack Iran's nuclear facility at Bushehr using US as well Israeli produced bunker buster bombs. .... The sale pertains to the larger and more sophisticated “Guided Bomb Unit-28 (GBU-28) BLU-113 Penetrator” (including the WGU-36A/B guidance control unit and supportÃâà...
Crunchyroll News
July 3, 2017
... we know the speed at which you travel after you've been Anpunched, we can calculate just how hard the UFO is being hit. Energy (in joules) is equal to half an object's mass in kg times its velocity squared in m/s. That comes out to 11,255,227,716 joules. That's the same as nine GBU-28 Bunker Busters.
Hindustan Times
April 13, 2017
However, the bunker buster bomb's explosive power doesn't match that of the MOAB or the FOAB. Manufactured by US defence giant Boeing, the GBU-57A/B MOP is designed to obliterate underground nuclear facilities and deeply buried enemy targets. GBU-28 Hard Target Penetrator: The air forces ofÃâà...
TIME
April 3, 2015
The U.S. military has been getting ready to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities to smithereens even longer than Secretary of State John Kerry has been trying to ... the heft of the existing GBU-28 bunker busters and nearly five tons heavier than the 22,600-pound GBU-43, once known as the “mother of all bombs.
Business Insider
December 13, 2012
(Israel dropped Israeli-made bunker-busters on Gaza in '08 as well.) And the last time the U.S. sent Israel bunker-busters, in 2009, the sale included 55 GBU-28 Hard Target Penetrators. This time around the U.S. is providing 1,725 BLU-109 and 3,450 GBU-39 bunker-buster bombs. Last year The New YorkÃâà...
Business Insider
September 27, 2011
Journalist Eli Lake told The Guardian that on top of the bomb sale, Israel is coordinating a joint venture with some of its Arab neighbors, setting up an early-warning system to alert ... In 2007, Bush informed then-prime minister Ehud Olmert that he would order the bunker busters for delivery in 2009 or 2010.
Modern Diplomacy
December 31, 1999
Israel has a few dozen laser-guided bunker buster bombs (the GBU-28). The Jericho III is an Israeli three-stage solid propellant missile with a payload of more than a ton and capable of carrying multiple low-yield independently targeted reentry warheads. All the targets in Iran fall within its range of up toÃâà...