Persian Gulf
INT'L MOD
a bit random, did you copy and paste or something?You should not overestimate the robustness of underground facilities.
We should have witnessed firsthand the sheer power of bunker busters that created massive craters and obliterated everything in Lebanon.
Reinforced concrete bunkers were literally blown away—not just penetrated, but annihilated.
Simulations based on the law of conservation of energy show that large bunker busters like the GBU-57 can easily penetrate more than 10 meters of military-grade UHPC concrete.
Do not trust the figures on Wikipedia.
If dozens of such bombs are concentrated on a single point, no structure could possibly withstand it.
Tunnels would experience large-scale collapses, making recovery extremely difficult.
Additionally, Iran's underground facilities are all built in shallow mountains, which is easily verifiable by checking the elevation on maps.
The claim that they are 500 meters underground is clearly not true.
It’s likely that the 500-meter figure refers to the distance from the entrance, not the depth.
To get a bit technical, the mountains in Iran are geologically older and have undergone significant erosion, resulting in relatively gentle slopes.
Unfortunately, they cannot find the steep, towering mountains ideal for excavating horizontal tunnels, as seen in places like China or the United States.
This is why even the Fordow nuclear facility is built at a relatively shallow depth of only a few dozen meters underground.
Israel doesn't have the GBU-57 and only reached Nasrallah's bunker (which was only 18m underground in a urban area, not under a mountain) using 100x 2000lb bombs at the same site simultaneously, requiring 100 fighter jets
that is possible over Beirut which is only 50km away from Israel and has no air defences
it's not possible over central Iran 2000km away. the distance alone means many more jets would be required to even attempt such an exercise as they would have to carry external fuel tanks
and even to the end of the war Israel was not able to destroy Hezbollah's missile bases under the Bekaa mountains in north Lebanon, which is a better analogy for Iran's missile bases than Nasrallah's base under Beirut.



