Blue Herald
26
Oct
Pentagon Seeks “Urgent” Funding For Massive Bunker Busting Bomb
by QuestionGirl • 8:09 am

BIG HUGE RED FLAG……..

Citing an “urgent operational need,” the Pentagon is seeking funds to modify B-2 stealth bombers to deliver an experimental 30,000 pound (13.6 tonne), satellite-guided bunker busting bomb, officials said Wednesday.
The likely purpose of the new weapon is to strike Iran’s underground nuclear facilities, experts said.

“It raises a red flag,” said Representative Jim Moran, a Democrat from Virginia who called for hearings on the request. “My immediate assumption is that it is a target in Iran, rather than Iraq or Afghanistan.”

The air force has asked Congress for nearly 88 million dollars to complete development of the so-called Massive Ordnance Penetrator and modify B-2 bombers so that they can deliver it, an air force spokeswoman said.

Full article at Spacewar.com



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