- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
- news@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
- news@lemmy.world
Fox News reports that Donald Trump may consider using nuclear weapons to eliminate Iran’s Fordo nuclear facility
The U.S. military has reservations regarding the success of using a bunker-buster bomb, a non nuclear weapon, to eliminate Iran’s Fordo nuclear facility, buried deep in a mountain. Two defense officials were reportedly briefed that only a tactical nuclear weapon could reach the facility.
I have some very bad news for you about our success intercepting missiles. We very much do not have a reliable defence against missiles. We regularly fail interception tests.
https://breakingdefense.com/2022/02/no-us-missile-defense-system-proven-capable-against-realistic-icbm-threats-study/
Yeah I was gonna say this, I have no idea why or how it came to be that people think an ICBM MIRV can be realistically or reliably intercepted.
Some of them?
Maybe, yeah, but… most of them? Hell no.
EDIT: Oh, that commenter said they were stoned when they wrote that. I… guess that is an explanations of sorts.