June 18, 2025 • 8 mins
It may actually be possible to take out Iran’s nuclear sites with MOPs, but not without direct U.S. military action.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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This is the Brian Mud Show. Yeah, today's Q and A.
Could US bunker buster bombs be the key to taking
out Aron's underground nuclear sides. This is brought to you
by Melissa and Ashes check Mark collections. Each day I
feature a listener question sent by one of these methods.
(00:28):
You may email me Brian Mud at iHeartMedia dot com,
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(00:49):
you may lay down the message right there, maybe for
a future Q and A and today's note is this
one good day. Brian news outlets like Fox News are
suggested that US bunker busters can take out the Iranian
deeply buried targets. My bet is that a bunker buster
can't penetrate deep enough to destroy a site a half
(01:12):
mile underground. Maybe the shockwave could collapse the intries and
exits that deeply buried target may be impenetrable. Okay, so
before we dive into this, let's go to Fox's Jennifer
Griffin with this report.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
The F twenty two's, F sixteen's and F thirty five
fighter jets and a second aircraft carrier strike group, the
USS Nemets to the Middle East. The USS nemets should
arrive in about a week. Already there off the coast
of Oman. The US military has been sharing intelligence and
defended Israel from sea and by land, including hundreds of
(01:50):
US troops on the ground in Israel operating the FAT
and Patriot air defense systems. All eyes now on Whiteman
Air Force Base in Missouri, home to the B two
stealth bombers, which are designed to carry two thirty thousand
pounds GBU fifty seven bunk or buster bombs.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
And those are the key. Well you just heard there
at the end of that report, that's the key. So
as Israel has the Iranian regime on the brink of demise,
this is an instructive question. It's also really important question
to address in the bigger picture, because how is it
that Israel and or the US can ensure that the
catalyst for the Israel Iran war, Iran's highly developed nuclear program,
(02:31):
is permanently disabled, because even if, for example, there is
regime change in Iran from the terrorsponsing to Iyatolas to
a responsible government backed by Iranian citizens, I mean, still
wouldn't be advisable to turn over a highly advanced nuclear
program to some new, unknown governing body. So while Israel's
military operations appear to have disabled all of Iran's and
(02:53):
richment operations, what we know is that no permanent disabling
of Iran's nuclear program taking place as of now. If
nuclear material uranium had taken any direct hips, there would
be elevated radiation levels in surrounding areas, and according to
the International Atomic Energy Agency, there isn't and hasn't been
any increase in radiation at any Iranian sight so far.
(03:17):
So this invites the question, how exactly is it that
Israel could go about permanently disabling the nuclear program now
boots on the ground. I mean, I guess you could
say that might be an option, However, probably not a
good one. Not only is the IDF still engaged on
the ground in Gaza and with security needs in and
around Israel for multi tier threats that perhaps could be
(03:38):
exploited if the IDF were to deploy to Iran, which
also carries significant geographical and logistical challenges as well. Just
not telling what the IDEF would encounter on the ground,
how they would be received by civilians, whether it would
be safe for troops to even enter the damaged nuclear
enrichment facilities. Seemingly, the ideal situation and solution would be
for the ability to disable nuclear sites from the sky,
(04:02):
and that's where the conversation surrounding the bunker buster bombs
comes into play. So is it possible for Iran's nuclear
sites to be permanently disabled by bunker busters and is
a Israel capable of deploying them?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
As I covered on Monday, the United States supplies sixty
nine percent of Israel's munitions, so most of what you
see being used by Israel and Iran is US weaponry.
But to the root of today's note, you have not
seen any of the US's renowned bunker buster bombs. So
let's start with what's required for the use of a
(04:40):
bunker busters. In other words, whether the Israeli military would
have the ability to deploy the bunker busters even if
we supplied them. Now there actually is a one bunker
buster bomb. There are multiples within the US military's arsenal.
You have what is known as the g twenty eight.
(05:02):
You're down with the gbugel.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
No, but I might be down with the BBB the
bunker buster bombs. Here you go, there you go.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
So anyway, the GBU when you see this or hear
this come up, that stands for guided bomb Unit. All
of our bunker busters are guided so that we put
the coordinates on there and they're not supposed to miss
because again, you really don't want to miss with with
this kind of weaponry. It just the GBU seventy two.
(05:32):
And then you have the GBU fifty seven MOP. You're
down with the MOP, yeah, you know me. That is
the massive ordnance Penetrator. Now these are far from being equal.
So the GBU twenty eight, it's a legacy weapon. We
brought this online in nineteen ninety one. It is capable
of penetrating one hundred and sixty feet into the ground
(05:55):
or through sixteen feet of concrete. Similarly, the GBU seventy two,
brought on the line just five years ago. Now its
details are classified, but it is said to be substantially
higher than its predecessor. But still, you take a look
at its payload, I mean just the you know, the
physical aspects of it. It's only twenty percent greater in
size and weight. Therefore might produce something on the order
(06:18):
of say one hundred and ninety feet of ground penetration
or nineteen feet of concrete. But then you got the
bomb that already replaced what have been known as the
MOAB or the mother of all bombs.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It is the GBU MOP. This thing, it.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Delivers six times the payload of the GBU twenty eight
at thirty thousand pounds six times. Details of the mop's
capabilities are also classified, but are believed to be a
half mile per standard ground penetration or up to two hundred.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Feet of solid concrete as a beast.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Now, Iran's nuclear facilities are estimated to be two hundred
and sixty two to two hundred and ninety five feet
below ground, and it's unlikely that you know that would
be solid concrete from the surface of the earth all
the way down to that facility as well. So in
other words, there's a strong reason to believe that these
bombs would easily be able to reach their targets, these
(07:27):
nuclear facilities underground. So if there is any chance of
truly taking out Run's nuclear sites from the air, it
would have to be delivery of the MOPS, the only
one that has the potential capabilities to reach where these
nuclear sites are. Now report succests that Israel wants the MOP.
(07:50):
But here's the problem. Even if we wanted to give
it to them, Israel doesn't have the equipment to use it.
There is only one aircraft in the world that can
deploy the MOP, and that is as your and Jennifer
Griffin's report, the B fifty two bomber, and Israel they
don't have any of those. In fact, there are only
(08:11):
nineteen known active B fifty two's.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
We have them all.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
In other words, there is no realistic way for Israel
to be able to do this unless there is a
direct US military action delivering it. So therein lies the
bigger issue with this question. It may actually be possible
to take out Aron's nuclear sites, but not without direct
US military action. And you might imagine this has been
(08:39):
a central, if not the central piece of the conversation
that pulled President Trump away from the G seven. The
Brian Mudjow podcast is driven by Brayman motor Cars. My
family is a Brayman Motor Cars family.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Your family should be too.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Visit Braymanmotorcars dot com
I have a question or topic you want to have addressed.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Just ask.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
This is the Brian Mud Show. Yeah, today's Q and A.
Could US bunker buster bombs be the key to taking
out Aron's underground nuclear sides. This is brought to you
by Melissa and Ashes check Mark collections. Each day I
feature a listener question sent by one of these methods.
(00:28):
You may email me Brian Mud at iHeartMedia dot com,
hit me up on social at Brian Mud Radio. You
may also use the iHeartRadio talkback feature. Just go find
us inside of the iHeartRadio app. We would love it
if you made it your number one preset while you're
in there, and then the Brian Mud Show podcast your
number two preset. And when you're doing that, you'll see
a little microphone button. You see it, you tap it,
(00:49):
you may lay down the message right there, maybe for
a future Q and A and today's note is this
one good day. Brian news outlets like Fox News are
suggested that US bunker busters can take out the Iranian
deeply buried targets. My bet is that a bunker buster
can't penetrate deep enough to destroy a site a half
(01:12):
mile underground. Maybe the shockwave could collapse the intries and
exits that deeply buried target may be impenetrable. Okay, so
before we dive into this, let's go to Fox's Jennifer
Griffin with this report.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
The F twenty two's, F sixteen's and F thirty five
fighter jets and a second aircraft carrier strike group, the
USS Nemets to the Middle East. The USS nemets should
arrive in about a week. Already there off the coast
of Oman. The US military has been sharing intelligence and
defended Israel from sea and by land, including hundreds of
(01:50):
US troops on the ground in Israel operating the FAT
and Patriot air defense systems. All eyes now on Whiteman
Air Force Base in Missouri, home to the B two
stealth bombers, which are designed to carry two thirty thousand
pounds GBU fifty seven bunk or buster bombs.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
And those are the key. Well you just heard there
at the end of that report, that's the key. So
as Israel has the Iranian regime on the brink of demise,
this is an instructive question. It's also really important question
to address in the bigger picture, because how is it
that Israel and or the US can ensure that the
catalyst for the Israel Iran war, Iran's highly developed nuclear program,
(02:31):
is permanently disabled, because even if, for example, there is
regime change in Iran from the terrorsponsing to Iyatolas to
a responsible government backed by Iranian citizens, I mean, still
wouldn't be advisable to turn over a highly advanced nuclear
program to some new, unknown governing body. So while Israel's
military operations appear to have disabled all of Iran's and
(02:53):
richment operations, what we know is that no permanent disabling
of Iran's nuclear program taking place as of now. If
nuclear material uranium had taken any direct hips, there would
be elevated radiation levels in surrounding areas, and according to
the International Atomic Energy Agency, there isn't and hasn't been
any increase in radiation at any Iranian sight so far.
(03:17):
So this invites the question, how exactly is it that
Israel could go about permanently disabling the nuclear program now
boots on the ground. I mean, I guess you could
say that might be an option, However, probably not a
good one. Not only is the IDF still engaged on
the ground in Gaza and with security needs in and
around Israel for multi tier threats that perhaps could be
(03:38):
exploited if the IDF were to deploy to Iran, which
also carries significant geographical and logistical challenges as well. Just
not telling what the IDEF would encounter on the ground,
how they would be received by civilians, whether it would
be safe for troops to even enter the damaged nuclear
enrichment facilities. Seemingly, the ideal situation and solution would be
for the ability to disable nuclear sites from the sky,
(04:02):
and that's where the conversation surrounding the bunker buster bombs
comes into play. So is it possible for Iran's nuclear
sites to be permanently disabled by bunker busters and is
a Israel capable of deploying them?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
As I covered on Monday, the United States supplies sixty
nine percent of Israel's munitions, so most of what you
see being used by Israel and Iran is US weaponry.
But to the root of today's note, you have not
seen any of the US's renowned bunker buster bombs. So
let's start with what's required for the use of a
(04:40):
bunker busters. In other words, whether the Israeli military would
have the ability to deploy the bunker busters even if
we supplied them. Now there actually is a one bunker
buster bomb. There are multiples within the US military's arsenal.
You have what is known as the g twenty eight.
(05:02):
You're down with the gbugel.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
No, but I might be down with the BBB the
bunker buster bombs. Here you go, there you go.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
So anyway, the GBU when you see this or hear
this come up, that stands for guided bomb Unit. All
of our bunker busters are guided so that we put
the coordinates on there and they're not supposed to miss
because again, you really don't want to miss with with
this kind of weaponry. It just the GBU seventy two.
(05:32):
And then you have the GBU fifty seven MOP. You're
down with the MOP, yeah, you know me. That is
the massive ordnance Penetrator. Now these are far from being equal.
So the GBU twenty eight, it's a legacy weapon. We
brought this online in nineteen ninety one. It is capable
of penetrating one hundred and sixty feet into the ground
(05:55):
or through sixteen feet of concrete. Similarly, the GBU seventy two,
brought on the line just five years ago. Now its
details are classified, but it is said to be substantially
higher than its predecessor. But still, you take a look
at its payload, I mean just the you know, the
physical aspects of it. It's only twenty percent greater in
size and weight. Therefore might produce something on the order
(06:18):
of say one hundred and ninety feet of ground penetration
or nineteen feet of concrete. But then you got the
bomb that already replaced what have been known as the
MOAB or the mother of all bombs.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It is the GBU MOP. This thing, it.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Delivers six times the payload of the GBU twenty eight
at thirty thousand pounds six times. Details of the mop's
capabilities are also classified, but are believed to be a
half mile per standard ground penetration or up to two hundred.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Feet of solid concrete as a beast.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Now, Iran's nuclear facilities are estimated to be two hundred
and sixty two to two hundred and ninety five feet
below ground, and it's unlikely that you know that would
be solid concrete from the surface of the earth all
the way down to that facility as well. So in
other words, there's a strong reason to believe that these
bombs would easily be able to reach their targets, these
(07:27):
nuclear facilities underground. So if there is any chance of
truly taking out Run's nuclear sites from the air, it
would have to be delivery of the MOPS, the only
one that has the potential capabilities to reach where these
nuclear sites are. Now report succests that Israel wants the MOP.
(07:50):
But here's the problem. Even if we wanted to give
it to them, Israel doesn't have the equipment to use it.
There is only one aircraft in the world that can
deploy the MOP, and that is as your and Jennifer
Griffin's report, the B fifty two bomber, and Israel they
don't have any of those. In fact, there are only
(08:11):
nineteen known active B fifty two's.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
We have them all.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
In other words, there is no realistic way for Israel
to be able to do this unless there is a
direct US military action delivering it. So therein lies the
bigger issue with this question. It may actually be possible
to take out Aron's nuclear sites, but not without direct
US military action. And you might imagine this has been
(08:39):
a central, if not the central piece of the conversation
that pulled President Trump away from the G seven. The
Brian Mudjow podcast is driven by Brayman motor Cars. My
family is a Brayman Motor Cars family.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Your family should be too.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Visit Braymanmotorcars dot com
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