On Thursday, in a news conference at the Pentagon, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff described in great detail the planning and execution of the US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
On Thursday, in a news conference at the Pentagon, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff described in great detail the planning and execution of the US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
Gen. Caine shared test footage of the bunker buster bombs. 12 of these were used during the Iran strikes, a US official told CNN.
They pushed back against the classified Defense Intelligence Agency report that the attacks damaged the facilities but did not destroy them, and that the country’s nuclear programme has been pushed only by a few months.Hegseth said that the strike was “decimating – choose your word – obliterating, destroying.” He added that the report was “low confidence” and had “gaps in the information”.
They played videos of how the bombing took place on the nuclear sites, explaining how the bombers attacked. Unlike other normal bombs, the damage done by a bunker-buster bomb, cannot be seen on the surface level. They are designed to deeply bury and then function.
“A bomb has three effects that cause damage: blast, fragmentation and overpressure. In this case, the primary kill mechanisms in the mission space were a mix of overpressure and blast,” Gen Caine added.
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