If Iran goes nuclear, B-2 bomber will get the call

Iran is "not seeking atomic weapons," President Masoud Pezeshkian claimed connected February 6. Ha! No 1 believed him, due to the fact that the UN says Iran is wrong weeks of producing capable enriched uranium for a fistful of bombs. By the way, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz was briefed connected this hazard by his predecessor Jake Sullivan.  

If that time comes erstwhile Iran is excessively adjacent to a bomb, determination is 1 U.S. warplane that volition get the call: the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. Only the B-2 has the survivability and payload to people profoundly buried weapons sites.  

Iran’s panic apparatus is weaker owed to Israel’s attacks, but their atomic ambitions are stronger than ever. Iran began enriching uranium to 60% backmost successful 2021, and it is the lone state enriching to that level that does not person a atomic weapon.  

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Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken said successful August that Iran was "probably 1 to 2 weeks away" from enriching to the 90% required to conception a atomic device. UN inspectors visiting Iran successful November confirmed that Iran was feeding much partially enriched uranium into the cascades of 2 centrifuges astatine its Fordow atomic works southbound of Tehran.  

Iran is reportedly adjacent to being capable to marque a atomic weapon. FILE: A mushroom unreality rises with ships beneath during Operation Crossroads atomic weapons trial connected Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands successful this 1946 handout provided by the U.S. Library of Congress. (REUTERS/U.S. Library of Congress/Handout via Reuters )

The trigger infinitesimal comes if Iran assembles a bomb. The problem? A "a large portion of the atomic programme successful Iran is underground and precise good protected," Rafael Grossi, manager wide of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said connected Dec. 6. "So kinetic enactment against the programme would necessitate a immense deployment of force," Grossi explained. 

You request immense force, you telephone the B-2, which archetypal saw combat successful the 1999 warfare against Serbia. Only 21 B-2s were ever built, and the Air Force inactive operates 19 from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri.   

I’ve flown successful the B-2 bomber, connected a beauteous summertime day implicit Missouri, and it’s otherworldly. Note to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: enactment yourself connected the database for a B-2 formation ASAP! 

A axenic flying helping without a consecutive fuselage, the B-2 is fundamentally 1 elephantine weaponry bay attached to a 172-foot wing, with a sawtooth trailing edge. You can’t spot the engines, though 4 are packed into its innards. Nothing hangs disconnected the wings. In combat stealth mode, antennae and moving lights tuck away. The B-2’s flying helping shape, curved surfaces, and radar-absorbent worldly coatings are calculated to spoof force aerial defence occurrence power radars. While level metallic surfaces bespeak backmost a immense magnitude of vigor to scanning force radars, the stealth B-2 absorbs, dissipates and sends the radar instrumentality disconnected successful antithetic directions.  

B-2s tin alert for 2 days straight. The B-2 tin instrumentality disconnected from the USA, behaviour bombing missions successful the Middle East, and instrumentality home, assisted by aerial refueling tankers that present substance astatine implicit 1,000 gallons per minute. 

Only the B-2 carries a 30,000-lb. weaponry known arsenic the GBU-57 (which stands for guided weaponry unit.)  The GBU-57 is packed with a blend of precocious propellant-like, integrative bonded explosives developed by the Air Force to beryllium highly energetic and little delicate to shock: the essentials for destroying profoundly buried, hardened targets.  

To destruct a imaginable Iranian atomic weapons accumulation line, it volition instrumentality cautiously timed, precise, dense munitions to penetrate world and concrete, illness and crater the facility. Guarantee your targeting options person already been drawn up, and the quality and tactics are assessed and updated regularly. Each B-2 volition beryllium assigned aggregate aimpoints for a crushing blow.  

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In fact, that’s 1 crushed the B-2 deed buried weapons retention targets successful Yemen successful October. According to the Pentagon, this was besides "a unsocial objection of the United States’ quality to people facilities that our adversaries question to support retired of reach, nary substance however profoundly buried underground, hardened, oregon fortified. The employment of U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit long-range stealth bombers show [sic] U.S. planetary onslaught capabilities to instrumentality enactment against these targets erstwhile necessary, anytime, anywhere," said a Pentagon merchandise Oct. 16. That’s you, Iran.  

B-2 stealth bombers would beryllium the limb of prime if the U.S. had to sound retired Iran's atomic capability. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Other craft would beryllium successful support, including F/A-18s and F-35s from a bearer airwing, and land-based F-35s, F-22s and F-16s. The F-15 could besides transportation the GBU-72, a 5,000-lb. limb tested by the U.S. Air Force successful 2021. Israel has already employed the older GBU-28 bunker-buster, truthful they whitethorn articulation in.  

What if Iran really launches a atomic weapon? We saw a rehearsal of that unthinkable script successful 2024. In April, Iran launched medium-range ballistic missiles toward Israel. In response, U.S. Navy destroyers USS Arleigh Burke and USS Carney launching their ain Standard Missile-3s into the exo-atmosphere. Against the acold inheritance of space, the SM-3s picked up the vigor signature of the Iranian rocket warheads and intercepted them utilizing a hit-to-kill technique.  

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The stakes would beryllium adjacent higher with a atomic warhead. Best case: an exo-atmospheric termination successful mid-course, smashing the atomic warhead to smithereens earlier detonation. Worst case: an EMP burst, with electrical and magnetic pulses frying electronics, the powerfulness grid, communications and different captious infrastructure implicit a wide area.  

You tin spot wherefore Iran cannot person a atomic weapon. America’s B-2 stealth bomber stands acceptable to marque definite it ne'er happens.  

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