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‘Damages beyond repair': Colonel shows before and after photos of Iran's nuclear site

‘Damages beyond repair': Colonel shows before and after photos of Iran's nuclear site

CNN4 hours ago

US airstrikes on Iran's Fordow nuclear facility have left at least six large craters, indicating the use of bunker-busting bombs, a CNN analysis of satellite imagery found. CNN military analyst Col. Cedric Leighton (Ret.) analyzes the satellite images that show the damage before and after US strikes.

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DUBAI—American forces hit the hardest of hard targets in Iran's nuclear program, using stealth bombers and massive bunker-busting munitions to strike the heavily fortified Fordow uranium-enrichment complex. It could take weeks to know how much damage they inflicted. Satellite images collected by Maxar Technologies after the weekend attack show several large holes punched in a ridge over the underground installation. Maxar also said entrances to it were blocked with dirt and debris after the U.S. dropped 12 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators, each weighing 30,000 pounds, for the first time in warfare. The surface was coated with a layer of gray-blue ash.

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