When The states bombed Iran early on Sunday, targeting three facilities at the country’s nuclear ambitions center: Fordo Uranium enrichment plant, Nuttans nuclear facility, and Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center. Pictures of the newly released satellite show the effects of the attack – at least, what can be seen on the ground.
The bombing was focused on Burnet Fordo, where US forces dropped a dozen GBU-57 massive ordinances as part of their “midnight hammer” operation. These 30,000 pounds are designed to enter the ground like 200 feet deep into the ground before the bombing. The Fordo Complex is about 260 feet underground.
In this difference, some uncertainty faces how much damage the Fordo site is. President Donald Trump shared a post on his true social platform after the attack announced “Fordo has gone”, and later television address said that “the key facilities for Iran’s nuclear enrichment were completely and completely eliminated.” However, his own army was slightly wandering about the results of Sunday morning’s briefing. “It would be very soon for me to comment on what could happen or what could happen,” said General Dan Ken, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Satellite imagery naturally can tell you just about the structure that is located below the surface of the earth. But the effects of the bombing before and after the imagery are the best public information available.
A satellite image before Fordo’s American bombing.
Photo: Mexor Technologies/Handouts by Reuters
A satellite image after the US bombing on Fordo.
Photo: Mexor Technologies/Handouts by Reuters
“What we are seeing is what we are seeing,” says Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Non -spread program in a study at the Middle Berry Institute’s James Martin Center for Non -Proliferation. “
Joseph Rogers, Deputy Director and Fellow of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Project, Joseph Rogers, says specific locations of these cathers are also important. Although internal tunnels have not been targeted at the Fordo Complex, US bombs have fallen to a place that is likely to be a ventilation shaft, which is based on site -satellite satellite images.
Rogers says, “Because you want to target the ventilation shaft is that this is a more direct way for the basic components of the underground convenience.”
This direct route is particularly important because the deep ground Fordo was built. Lewis says the US military relys on the “mainly computer model” of the facility, which tells them that “before it causes severe damage to everything and may also eliminate this facility.” By bombing specific targeted areas with numerous weapons, the United States did not need bombs that would be able to completely penetrate the full 260 feet.
“They are probably not trying to go to this convenience, Lewis says. They are probably trying to get closer to it and crush it with a shockview.” “If you send a huge shock view through this facility, it is about to kill people, break the goods, to damage its integrity.”
