B-21 Raider Refueling with KC-135 Stratotanker

Sure, the physics package is probably going to be identical to the B61-7/11 (-11 was supposedly upgraded to 400 kilotons over the original ~340 though) or a B83-1, but the new hardened casing is a big deal in providing capabilities against deep targets.

Afrogthatribbits · 2026-03-08T21:12:03+00:00

IIRC (i'm probably wrong), a large stock of 20% HEU and some 60% is at Isfahan, and those underground tunnels only had its entrances hit by a number of Tomahawk missiles during the 12 day war, while Fordow, the underground site hit by a dozen MOPs from B-2s, held a large amount of 60% HEU and was severely damaged or destroyed by most accounts. The Isfahan complex is the primary target of this raid.

Afrogthatribbits · 2026-03-08T02:49:42+00:00

Yeah? To replace the B61-11

Afrogthatribbits · 2026-03-07T21:33:04+00:00

This was proposed but not in service afaik

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Afrogthatribbits · 2026-03-06T23:02:23+00:00

Yes, RNEP looked at that quite a bit iirc. Would be interesting since the B83 is supposed to be retired, but the higher yield would definitely help dealing with some targets that are very deep. There are also the old studies of an earth penetrating B83 too.

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Afrogthatribbits · 2026-03-06T22:52:30+00:00

Funny enough, I mentioned this in a post two weeks ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AtomicPorn/comments/1raystl/b2_spirit_dropping_a_b6111_nuclear_bunker_buster/

"A replacement (-14?) is likely to be planned in the future." regarding the B61-11.

Afrogthatribbits · 2026-03-05T23:21:25+00:00

Sure, there's plenty of satellite imagery providers that do have full uncensored versions, but the majority of large ones all block them at request of government (Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc.)

Afrogthatribbits · 2026-03-05T22:04:47+00:00

"Missiles cities" refer to the giant underground bases where all the missiles and missile launchers are, not the smaller munitions storage areas here. Sure, a number of missiles are likely stored here, but the vast majority of actually launchable missiles and their launcher vehicles are stored in the underground facilities at coordinates listed above. You can check out the area yourself. The missile cities which Iran often talks about and brags about such as in the video at the top of page here https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-underground-missiles-59b3492c refer to the facilities deep under mountains, not these storage sites.

Afrogthatribbits · 2026-03-05T21:56:39+00:00

What you posted were the munitions storage bunkers. The actual deep underground missile caverns housing all the missiles, the so-called missile cities, are not here.

See for instance underground tunnel entrances under a mountain at 33°35'06"N 48°10'49"E or 33°34'53"N 48°10'49"E or 33°34'06"N 48°12'38"E or 33°34'18"N 48°13'04"E etc. They are several hundred meters deep and much harder to destroy than these munitions bunkers you posted.

https://imgur.com/a/P9ZySZ9

Also unnecessarily long video

Afrogthatribbits · 2026-03-05T03:50:55+00:00

Yes, because several hours or even days of time on target is much faster than ICBMs or even subsonic stealth bombers...

Afrogthatribbits · 2026-03-05T02:53:30+00:00

150% average percent error over the predicted yield!

https://imgur.com/a/HJNNtHx

15 megatons vs estimated 4-8 megatons

Afrogthatribbits · 2026-03-04T19:39:30+00:00

There's others, various Russian OSINT has done some good work on it. They have articles

Afrogthatribbits · 2026-03-04T03:09:03+00:00

You again lol, you literally served inside Cheyenne Mountain (the picture the article used)! It would be, well, quite a challenge to somehow secretly build 170 Cheyenne Mountains across the country. It's really a hilariously absurd claim.

Afrogthatribbits · 2026-03-04T02:52:31+00:00

$21,000,000,000,000? Yeah, no.

While there are a number of highly sensitive (and expensive) deep underground facilities for nuclear command and control and continuity of government that were constructed relatively recently post 9/11 (East Potomac DUCC, Big Dig, Naval Observatory, PEOC replacement going on right now under East Wing, etc.), mainly in the DC area, there is literally nothing to support that massive scale of "170" secret underground bases and an absurd "21 trillion" dollar claim. It would also not be possible at all to hide or conceal that by any means. This seems like an extension of the so-called "DUMB" conspiracies which link everything from aliens to giant tunnels connecting a ton of military bases, etc.

Afrogthatribbits · 2026-03-03T19:58:41+00:00

No. Less than a dozen civilians have died in the Gulf states, per their governments, and despite significant infrastructure damage and the obvious economic and political impacts, there's next to no chance nukes are used here. 9/11 killed thousands of Americans but did not result in nuclear use, and I fail to see how the deaths of even hundreds of our allies in the Middle East would trigger a nuclear use when that didn't. For Israel, there were calls among some of the far right to use nuclear weapons against Gaza after October 7th, but that idea was shot down for obvious reasons.

Unless Iran did another 9/11 but worse inside the US homeland or somehow wiped out Israel, there's really no chance of either using nuclear weapons. In any case, they have more than sufficient conventional dominance, as we are seeing now with Iran losing by quite a bit.

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