Quote:Images are now emerging showing the before and after at Iran’s underground Fordow nuclear facility. The “before” being of course previous to Saturday night, the “after” being after the United States unleashed numerous bunker-busting bombs and reportedly absolutely demolished the site.

Part of the mountain was simply vaporized:

The first satellite images from Iran’s Fordow nuclear enrichment site show that part of the mountain protecting the facility was completely obliterated by US bunker buster bomb strikes Saturday.

Possible bomb entry points and rubble was visible following President Trump’s surprise B-2 stealth bomber attack overnight, the images taken by Maxar Technologies show.

The once-brown mountainside turned gray in parts, with the entire topography of the area changed by the detonation of 14 30,000-pound Massive Ordinance Penetrator (MOP) bombs.

If you look closely, you can see holes in the ground where presumably the bombs burrowed their way in before fully detonating:

As many as 12 (reports vary) of these massive bombs were used, and you can see again in this picture right where they apparently went in:

Another effect of the attack: clouds of dust engulfing the air in what must be a hellish scene on the ground:

Light gray smoke also appears to be hanging in the air over the site, around 100 miles south of Tehran, the images show.

Other high-resolution satellite images suggest Iran sealed up the tunnel entrances at Fordow before the attack.

An artery of roads lead to the facility, with pre-images showing many vehicles lined up close to the entry points.The Fordow site suffered “major damage” in the strike along with a second site in Esfahan, while the nuclear site in Natanz has been destroyed, sources told the Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

Tehran is yet to issue a damage assessment of the site.

The site was complex, cost billions of dollars, and took many years to build. But now it is apparently no more.

The site cost up to $1.7 billion. But for Iran’s nuclear ambitions, it was worth far more.

Now it’s gone. This is one of the biggest blows to Iran’s nuclear program.

RIP, Fordow. Iran might want to listen the next time Donald Trump tells them exactly what his intentions are.

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That's just about the same amount Obama gave back to them in the form of cash on pallets.

Looks like a lot of debris around those craters. Wonder what it is?

Looks like they struck where the two underground airshaft feeds connect to the underground structure.

And because we see all entrance holes, it means the blast was able to move forward through the main structures and back out through the air vents and other entrances. All 6 of those strikes got through and damaged the interior, likely using the airshafts as a blast freeway right to the main compartments. If the GBU's werent able to get deep enough to hit the structure/shafts, it would have back blown craters from the entry point as the blast would have no where to go but back up through the entrance holes.

Due to the amount of pulverized concrete that coats the entire area, I would say most of the interior structure was obliterated out of the mountain. The two airshaft entrances can barely be made out. One is in the 12 o clock position to the large white area on the mountain. a lot of concrete appears to have exited this shaft and coated the mountain (from the top where the shaft is straight down the photo towards the 6 o clock position. The second shaft is just to the right of the white building structure, and due to shadowing, the concrete coating appears blueish in color. It appears the concrete blew out from left to right from this shaft. There is also some concrete dust coating that appears to have come back out of the blast holes when successive strikes were done.

They actually dropped 12 bunker busters on Fordow, and two on one of the others. Then the Tomahawks went after the third site (and maybe the second one, not sure).

lol, then why is social media saying all the bombings were a failure. Surely, all those experts know the truth!!

Trump building a new golf course in Iran. 1st 3 holes are complete

Has anything been confirmed about the actual damage to whatever is underground?

Sure the top ground is obliterated... Maybe/hopefully all access tunnels have now been collapsed, but what is the real damage under ground?

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(06-23-2025 08:46 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  14

12 on Fordow. Two on one of the other sites. Natanz. Correct?

(06-23-2025 08:42 AM)Eldonabe Wrote:  Has anything been confirmed about the actual damage to whatever is underground?

Sure the top ground is obliterated... Maybe/hopefully all access tunnels have now been collapsed, but what is the real damage under ground?

It will take several weeks (maybe months) to obtain precise data. But for now, it sure seems like no man-made infrastructure is left of the places we hit.

(06-23-2025 08:51 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(06-23-2025 08:46 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  14

12 on Fordow. Two on one of the other sites. Natanz. Correct?

That could be right. I don't know the exact division of love delivered.

(06-23-2025 08:55 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  

(06-23-2025 08:51 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(06-23-2025 08:46 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  14

12 on Fordow. Two on one of the other sites. Natanz. Correct?

That could be right. I don't know the exact division of love delivered.

I think it is. I read it somewhere.

Appears that Iran has a gopher problem.

BIG f'ing gophers.

(06-23-2025 09:03 AM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  BIG f'ing gophers.

So big, Minnesota's getting jealous. (Sports mascot joke. lol)

(06-22-2025 04:48 PM)Was SoMs Eagle Wrote:  Looks like a lot of debris around those craters. Wonder what it is?

Its something that formerly identified as concrete that was supposed to be strong enough to withstand a bunker buster bomb.

(06-23-2025 09:03 AM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  BIG f'ing gophers.

lol, well played...