Us Bunker Busters can be the only way to destroy Iranian Ford-Forde nuclear installations

While the Battle of Israel to eliminate Iran’s nuclear capacities continues, the most protected nuclear installation in Iran in Fordow, two hours from Tehran, remains intact.

Many military analysts believe that a two-ton precision bunker bunker developed by and in single possession of the United States is the only way to eliminate the Fordow site, which, according to some, may be able to produce a nuclear warhead as two to three days.

Jonathan Ruhe, director of foreign policy for Jinsa, spoke with Fox News Digital Bunker-Busters, and how Israel or the United States could use them to eliminate the Fordow nuclear threat.

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Illustration showing how a Bunker GBU-57 buster is deployed. (Fox News)

What is a Buster Bunker?

Ruhe said buses are ammunition designed to use the gravity force to “penetrate through any mixture of earth, rock and concrete before the bomb itself explodes” underground. The explosion can either fully withdraw the target or “collapse the structure” around the target “without necessarily erasing it”, he explained.

Bunker Busters is available in several weight classes. Israel has varieties of 2,000 and 5,000 pounds. Only the United States has the massive penetrator of the GBU-57 A / B order of 30,000 pounds (MOP).

Developed under President George W. Bush, Ruhe says that the mop was “designed specifically” for targets like Fordow, where nuclear sites or command and control bunkers are hidden far underground.

Two distinct bombs are abandoned by a stealthy B2 Spirit bomber. (Fox News)

How many bunker boists are needed?

Ruhe said the number of ammunition required to target the Ford-Fordis depends on the depth of the installation. The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies stipulates that Fordwow installations are between 60 and 90 meters (196 to 295 feet) under the ground. The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi told Financial Times last week that the establishment reached 800 meters underground.

Ruhe said that Grosi, who was in the installation of Fordow, may have “tried a message:” Hey, military action is not the solution here. “”

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The illustration shows the first bomb that explodes and creating a hole. (Fox News)

The mop would have a depth of penetration of 200 feet. Ruhe declared that, given the distance from the distance from Fordow, and the difficulty of penetrating the rocky mountain flank in which the site is dug, the United States would probably use a technique called berrouillage, in which a stealthy bomber B-2 Spirit “would drop several successively, one after the other”.

Fordow poses a unique target. Ruhe said the pilots must take into account the multiple narrow outlet tunnels of the installation and obtain the right angle of impact to penetrate the ground.

Although Israeli air domination over Iran has eliminated the need for stealth air assets, Ruhe thinks that stealth B-2 would be the only adequate tool to deliver the mops. Ruhe said that synchronization constraints use unrelevant “B-52 bombers.

In addition, Ruhe explained that talking about lending B-2 bombers to the Israeli Air Force is “dangerous distraction”. Not only is there “0.0% chance” that the United States gives this strategic capacity, but Ruhe says that the training of Israeli pilots to pilot the B-2 would take several months.

A second bomb follows the hole and explodes, causing more damage. (Fox News)

Can Israel withdraw Fordow?

Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital that “destroying (Fordow) of the air is work that only the United States can do”.

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Since Israel is “very tactically inventive” and “very good to maximize the capacities they have”, Ruhe says that Israel could achieve its objectives at Fordow without the mop.

Not only did Ruhe offered the improbable but not impossible scenario where Israel could “assault the site in a commando raid”, but he said that Israel could use the F-5, escorted by F-35, to deliver several 5000 pound bunker on Fordow, using the same earthmoving tactic as the United States probably use.

File – In this October 25, 2015, photo file, a US Air Force B2 Spirit Stealth bomber performs an overview at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, ALA. (AP photo / Mark Almond, file)

Such a strike, he admitted, “would make a more limited definition of success” than the mop.

Different expectations for Fordow

The United States and Israel are likely to have different objectives in the targeting of Fordwow, said Ruhe. “Americans tend to think of erasing targets,” said Ruhe, while Israel “would likely be able to say that they overturned the operations of one year.”

RUHE believes that bunker busters may not completely destroy the installation, but that it can be considered a success if it should be eliminated the source of power to Iranian centrifuges, or make “air too polluted” for centrifuges to work.

Fordo, Iran – Jun. 14, 2025; Presentation of Maxar satellite imaging of the Fordo enrichment installation located about 60 miles southwest of Tehran. No visible damage is observed. (Maxar Technologies via Getty)

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Israel “managed to eliminate the other parts of the Iranian fuel cycle” in Natanz and Isfahan, said Ruhe. “If you want to prevent a nuclear Iran, Fordow is a large part,” said Ruhe. “But this is only part of what is still done and reflected.”

Caitlin McFall of Fox News contributed to this article.