It is unlikely that 420,000 lbs of explosives didn’t do the trick.

I am betting a phony damage assessment was created, shared with a limited number of people… and subsequently leaked. Now they know who the leak is.

So you’re going with “false flag phony report released by the Pentagon” that mitigates the damage when the preznit is out there claiming total annihilation and that the report is fake news. The news media reports that the Pentagon said that the program was only set back by months, and his response is that all the news agencies are total scum. Sure that sounds logical.

The Israelis should have been able to blow up the entrances. But I wonder about using more than 1 bunker buster bomb on the same site.

At some point, you're just re-arranging the rubble.

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Part of the tactical plan when using that weapon is to drop a second MOP through the same path created by the first in order to penetrate deeper.

A lot was said how Iran warned of their missile attack on Qatar ahead of time, and that the strike was merely symbolic to show their people they responded. You think our government is smart enough to do the same to us?

Perhaps. And that's a pretty good deal for a days work. If we set them back for just a couple of myears, hell of an ROI.

Again, this seems like a lament, wishing for a sturdier, longer lasting solution that has eluded everyone forever. Can't think of anything anyone could do that will result in a result like the unconditional surrender of Japan or the WWI Armistice.

Not unlike cancer therapy in some situations. A cure may not be in sight, but treatment might add years of high quality of life with a minimum of suffering. And who knows what's coming down the pike. There are cancer reasearchers out there working on dazzling things, and who knows what is brewing in the Islamic world a year from now, or 10? Whatever good things might be taking shape in that world, they got a strong dose of encouragement yesterday.

Pretty good day.

We could go with “instant battle damage assessment” of a facility 300 feet below the Earth!

The lies we want to believe are the quickest to deceive.

If you could get me the phone number of some of those massage agents before they head for the hills, I'd appreciate it.

I would really love to know if the ground penetrating radar we have in orbit can "read" through rock. Open source for years made clear it can do so through dirt, the published images/study of the old Nile river delta made that clear. Just have never seen any open source report of the ability to see caverns inside of rock

Anyone know that can talk about it?

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If you could get me the phone number of some of those massage agents before they head for the hills, I'd appreciate it.

Fun story about the NASA "tests"; the way Rowland White tells it in his book Into the Black, DoD was heavily involved in these tests. In fact, the second shuttle mission, STS-2, carried a payload known as the Shuttle Imaging Radar-A (SIR-A) and was intended, in part, to show off some of what the US could see from space-based radars. Not all of it, mind you, but enough to warn adversaries.

SIR-B and SIR-C followed later. I haven't seen any open source reporting of how much DoD was involved in that, but of course the USAF, Navy, NRO, and various other alphabets have been flying spaceborne radars of various types for quite a while.

My guess, based on what little I know, is that you wouldn't get enough of a usable signal returned from a subterranean void at any depth deep enough to be interesting but I'm not a radar engineer, so I could certainly be wrong. If I wanted to map caverns like that, I might be tempted to do it acoustically by sneaking some massage agents in and having them place transducers etc.

Those massage agents are everywhere.

It's funny that so many were so quick to claim that the B2's failed in their mission to destroy Iran's nuclear sites.

According to one of the pilots who saw the initial explosions "that was the brightest explosion I have ever seen, it was like daylight"

I stand by my previous statement that it is possible that this initial Pentagon report may have been a fake used to find and close a leak. It was just a little too sweet and shiny, sure seems like bait to me.

There is an investigation into the leak, the DOJ is looking at who did it, it is extremely hard to catch a leaker, but if it was a setup from the start they may very well be successful this time.

I don't profess to know much about space based GPR but from what I've read you need to use fairly low frequencies (i.e. 10-50 MHz) for deep penetration and even then the best you can get is 50-100 ft and the usable depth depends on the conductivity of the material being penetrated. At that low of a frequency, you'd need a huge antenna (>100ft diameter) just to get a beam width of a degree or two and from LEO one degree equates to a few miles of beam width at the ground.

Most of the space based radars I'm aware of use millimeter waves (i.e many GHz) and are used to map terrain and large structures on the ground.