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September 22, 2015       Share:    

Source: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/09/us-offer-anti-iran-bomb-israel.html

Doubts about Bunker-Busters for Israel

(Al-Monitor) Julian Pecquet - Talk is heating up in Congress and the Pentagon about whether to share America's massive new bunker-busting bomb as a warning to Iran, but Israel remains cool to the idea. "This idea is irrelevant for Israel," a senior Israeli officer told Al-Monitor. "It is way beyond our means [and] not worth the means, money and effort. We are not capable of maintaining and sustaining it." Israel does not possess the heavy bombers - B-2s or B-52s - required to deliver the 15-ton Massive Ordnance Penetrator, and only one air base has runways that could conceivably be upgraded to handle such flights.

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