This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
From this article it sounds very likely that the bunker buster attack failed.
And I read that the US used more than half of its stock of these bunker-buster bombs in this attack, the largest conventional bunker-busters in existence. So they can't simply try again.
The article is 3 years old
But the information still seems valid.
It's confirming your bias so you like it...
I mean they usually only do about 30 damage anyways.
So Iran knew EXACTLY how strong they needed to make their defenses!
Pretty stupid of the American military to give that info to a game developer, that would obviously use it.
I love how unhinged random fan wikis sound without context. Here for instance: Bunker Buster, see also: Concrete Donkey and Buffalo of Lies
I hadn't clicked the link yet, but Concrete Donkey told me what it was immediately
My guess: that bunker buster attack was twice as successful as the missile attack on the the airfield in Qatar.
2 x 0 = 0.
Now accepting bets on when we will find out that Trump had a secret call with Ali Khamenei where they negotiated the whole thing ahead of time, thus explaining the movement of the Uranium out of the facility, the movement of our servicemen out of the airbase, etc. etc.
Why? The kinds of UHPC being discussed in the article weren't available even in the United States until the year 2000 but most of Iran's nuclear facilities were built between 1974 and 2005. Even their primary enrichment facility in Fordow, which was struck with MOPs, was started no earlier than the mid-2000s as it was still unfinished in 2009.
Basically the majority of Iran's facilities, even their major ones, are too old to have the kind of concrete being discussed in the article.
That's what they want you to think, but we have no evidence to either direction. And I doubt we will ever have a definitive answer.
Impressive.
Basically they used pyramid age tech to outplay billions of dollars worth of weapons tech.
Arguably letting a big weight fall down after being brought into the air somehow is also pyramid age tech.
These bombs are not just dead weights. These bunker busters are equipped with precision guidance and fly to and hit a person on the head if they desired. It's also designed to deliver a huge explosion AFTER it penetrates with the kinetic impact.
It can also be set to explode right before impact, like Israel really likes to do when attaching residential high-rises, to deliver maximum destruction and death.
Hardly. Did you read the article?
The greater strength is achieved by turning concrete into a composite material with the addition of steel or other fibers.
Fiber reinforcment is thousands of years old.
Calling that pyramid age I think is a little disingenuous, they didn’t have 40,000 psi concrete back in those days.
Thats fair yeah
So I did not read the article because of a paywall I'm too lazy to circumvent right now
But from OP's summary, the main technology they're talking about is concrete reinforced with steel or other fibers.
And that's definitely more advanced than "pyramid age"
But it's also pretty much a direct descendant of mud brick reinforced with straw which humanity has been using since well before the pyramids. Same basic concept, different materials.
So yes and no.
Yes....no.....maybe? I don't know. Can you repeat the question?
Egyptians stacked blocks of stone to build the pyramids.
Roman concrete was impressively strong.
Neither of them had steel-reinforced concrete.
Neither did Gothic cathedrals, which is why they needed flying buttresses.
Reinforced concrete as we know it today is a 19th century innovation, as I understand it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforced_concrete?wprov=sfla1
Maybe the commenter was thinking of adobe.
I sure would like to read this article, it seems fascinating, but it's paywalled.
