Best Of The Web: Where The Bunker Busters Landed

Five bombs went down a single hole to reach underground facility.

Screenshot/Bunker Buster Test

BFBS Forces has put together its best estimation of how the big bombs were deployed based on historic and current satellite imagery. It paints a picture of amazing military precision by a handful of young aviators.

Russ Niles

Russ Niles is Editor-in-Chief of AVweb. He has been a pilot for 30 years and joined AVweb 22 years ago. He and his wife Marni live in southern British Columbia where they also operate a small winery.

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  1. I am in awe… this is simply amazing!

    I’ll stand a bit straighter this Friday and salute the men and women who serve and have served our country so honorably!

  2. Repeating down hole to go deeper is the plan, plus a timed trigger if stopped.

    A confusing aspect of photos is three holes close to each other - I read that each of two ventilation shaft systems had three top entrances.

    Seven B-2s carried 14 bombs total.
    (One spare but all seven were able to reach the targets.)

    (USN ships/submarines also launched cruise missiles from ocean to the south.)

    I predict the US will be developing a 30 ton bomb, as a B-2 can carry that weight (carried two of 15 ton bombs).

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