The Israeli assessment also holds that Iran's stockpiles were spread across Isfahan, Fordo, and Natanz, and had not been ...

Bunker buster bombs can go to varying depths depending on the model, from just under 2 feet with the BLU-109 to over 200 feet ...

The MOP was developed in the early 2000s as part of a DARPA-led effort created in response to the emergence of Iranian and North Korean fortified nuclear facilities.

Last weekend's strike on Iran's Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant used 30,000-pound GBU-57 "massive ordnance penetrator" bombs. The design of those weapons and plans for attacking the site had ...

The US military did not use bunker-buster bombs on one of Iran’s largest nuclear sites last weekend because the site is so ...

The Pentagon on Thursday released an extraordinary number of details about the military's top-secret bombing of Iran's ...

LEAKS from the US’ own intelligence services have debunked President Donald Trump’s boast that the 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator “bunker buster” bombs on June 21 have “completely ...

The video showed a GBU-57 series MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator) crashing into a target and kicking up a massive plume of dust moments before a blinding inferno appeared in a shaft during a test ...

This led to the development of the GBU-57, the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, designed specifically to defeat heavily fortified underground facilities.

The deep penetrating bombs that the U.S. dropped into two Iranian nuclear facilities were designed specifically for those sites and were the result of more than 15 years of intelligence and ...

A GBU-57 series Massive Ordnance Penetrator is seen crashing into a target. Picture: Department of Defense The 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs demolish fortified targets deep underground.