【US military uses 5,000-pound bunker buster to strike Iran's "missile city"]

The US military recently deployed multiple 5,000-pound "bunker buster" penetrating bombs to strike an Iranian missile base near the Strait of Hormuz. The US website "The Drive" pointed out: this bomb was not originally designed to cause large-scale detonation on the ground, but to concentrate energy for vertical penetration, inflicting fatal damage on deeply fortified underground facilities.

Now, most air forces around the world often use 2,000-pound general-purpose bombs, which produce a wide range of explosions and shockwave destruction on the surface. The 5,000-pound "bunker buster" has a slender shell made of reinforced steel, which uses gravitational acceleration and kinetic energy to hit the ground, can penetrate underground before explosion, and can penetrate more than 6 meters of reinforced concrete. If it is ordinary soil, the penetration depth can reach up to 30 meters.

Additionally, unlike general bombs that disperse energy into the atmosphere after exploding on the ground, this deep-penetrating bomb produces an effect similar to an "earthquake" when it explodes underground. If it successfully drills into an air vent or tunnel and explodes, the superpressure will rapidly spread along the tunnel, destroying the entire underground facility.

This bunker buster also has the feature of being able to be stacked with multiple units for consecutive attacks on extremely deep targets. Usually, the combat units use two or more bombs to attack the same point. The first bomb explodes the top layer of soil or concrete, and the second one drills deeper.

Iran's missiles have been buried deep underground for a long time. They have built many "underground missile cities" to prevent their missile capabilities from being paralyzed during wartime. Now, the competition between the US, Israel, and Iran mainly revolves around weapon stockpiles. To weaken Iran's ability to retaliate, paralyzing Iran's missile attack capability has become an inevitable choice.

Original article: toutiao.com/article/1859994659603528/

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