Israel awaits the American bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities with the GBU-43 MOAB – the mother of all bombs

Interpretation based on visible information:

(haipo) – Destruction of nuclear facilities deep underground: Penetrating the nuclear facility at Fordow is a difficult challenge to crack, but the Americans have the key to cracking it using the "mother of all bombs," or by its technical name the GBU-43 MOAB. A 10-ton bomb, considered the heaviest conventional guided bomb in the world and used exclusively by the Americans (it is not sold to foreign armies, according to publicly available information). The US military releases very little photographic material on this bomb, but I will show you rare photographs, which were published during the bomb's tests in 2003 (22 years ago).

The nuclear facility at Fordow is dug 80 to 90 meters deep into a mountainside. It is located near the city of Qom, about 160 kilometers south of Tehran. Its destruction requires special tools capable of penetrating deep into the earth. The IDF has difficulty penetrating this depth using bunker-penetrating bombs that the Israeli Air Force has and are launched from fighter jets.

About the bombshell everyone is waiting for:

• The GBU-43 bomb is stabilized in the air with a series of fixed wings and grid/lattice fins – which give it exceptional stability and aerodynamics.
• It is guided by various means, at the operator's discretion, and actually glides to its target after being dropped from a heavy bomber.
• There are heavy bombers capable of dropping this bomb. Usually, the bomb is adapted to a special platform carried on a C-130 aircraft, which is the American version of the Hercules used by the Air Force.
  The bomb is dropped using a parachute that opens from the back of the plane and pulls it out of the plane's belly. It slides out onto a suitable platform.
  Note: It is possible that the American B-52 heavy bombers, which are currently stationed in the Indian Ocean on the island of Diego Garcia, can also carry this bomb, in a modern and adapted version (there is no public information on this).
• The bomb was developed, tested, and operated by the US Air Force Research Laboratory.
• First operational use Was in Afghanistan on April 13, 2017 (there is a shot of the operational bombing at the end of the film).
• Glide range to the target – about 5 kilometers. This means that the large, slow bomber needs to get close to its target, and to do so, the air defense systems in the area must be destroyed in advance (the destruction of the Iranian defense systems has already been carried out by the Israeli Air Force). A slow bomber requires preparation to open an approach path, which is carried out by fighter jets.
• Armament: 18,700 lbs (about 8 tons of H6 explosive).

Note: According to open information, such a bomb could cause a nuclear leak from the reactors, and this is definitely the American consideration to avoid it and go down the path of dismantling with the agreement of the reactors. Such an agreement is only possible in negotiations between the Americans and the Iranians. This will only happen if the Iranians understand that this is their only option in the situation that has arisen and under a clear threat. There is a reasonable scenario that this is what will happen, if the Iranians understand that they have no chance of leaving the uranium enrichment.