“Operation Midnight Hammer” (or “The Bombers Are Coming, Whether You Like It or Not”)
Gentle reader, it’s 2025 and Uncle Sam has dusted off his stealth unicorns—the B‑2 Spirit bombers—and sent them on a 37‑hour marathon from Missouri to Iran, slinging 14 Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOPs) at Fordow and nucleus‑spinning hot spots at Natanz and Isfahan in what’s been colorfully dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer. These flying wing beauties—each one a $2 billion, radar‑ghosting masterpiece—carried enough bunker‑busting mojo (30,000‑pound bombs, for those counting) to make even the hardest rock beneath Tehran shake in its geological boots, if such a thing existed.
Underground Iran, but Not for Long
Iran responded to the naked thunderstorm overhead by retreating en masse into its subterranean chateau—complete with tunnel networks, missile silos and nuclear caves buried hundreds of feet below the surface (Fordow alone is roughly 260–300 ft underground) . But as we all know, an underground vault is just a hole waiting for the right bomb, and the B‑2 + MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator) combo is that satanic marriage made in bunker busting / cave crushing heaven. Satellite images show cratered ventilation shafts and shredded concrete, but whether Iran’s secret stash survived is anyone’s guess. Some say no, some say yes. Time will tell.
Tune Down the Rhetoric, Grab a Shovel
Cue Bob Lang’s SOFREP cartoon: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei calmly shoos away a mouth‑foaming mullah chanting “Death to Israel! Death to Ameri…” and barks, “Shut up and dig deeper!” Picture that in technicolor: boots stomping dirt, candles flickering, the distant BOOM of bunker breakers—but more telling than anything, we see the Ayatollah with a bucket telling his potent nonlinear demagogue to focus on the geology. It’s part slapstick, part warning shot—and maybe just the kind of bizarre theater we need to temper “obliteration” rhetoric with a freakin’ shovel and a prayer.
“Operation Midnight Hammer” (or “The Bombers Are Coming, Whether You Like It or Not”)
Gentle reader, it’s 2025 and Uncle Sam has dusted off his stealth unicorns—the B‑2 Spirit bombers—and sent them on a 37‑hour marathon from Missouri to Iran, slinging 14 Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOPs) at Fordow and nucleus‑spinning hot spots at Natanz and Isfahan in what’s been colorfully dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer. These flying wing beauties—each one a $2 billion, radar‑ghosting masterpiece—carried enough bunker‑busting mojo (30,000‑pound bombs, for those counting) to make even the hardest rock beneath Tehran shake in its geological boots, if such a thing existed.
Underground Iran, but Not for Long
Iran responded to the naked thunderstorm overhead by retreating en masse into its subterranean chateau—complete with tunnel networks, missile silos and nuclear caves buried hundreds of feet below the surface (Fordow alone is roughly 260–300 ft underground) . But as we all know, an underground vault is just a hole waiting for the right bomb, and the B‑2 + MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator) combo is that satanic marriage made in bunker busting / cave crushing heaven. Satellite images show cratered ventilation shafts and shredded concrete, but whether Iran’s secret stash survived is anyone’s guess. Some say no, some say yes. Time will tell.
Tune Down the Rhetoric, Grab a Shovel
Cue Bob Lang’s SOFREP cartoon: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei calmly shoos away a mouth‑foaming mullah chanting “Death to Israel! Death to Ameri…” and barks, “Shut up and dig deeper!” Picture that in technicolor: boots stomping dirt, candles flickering, the distant BOOM of bunker breakers—but more telling than anything, we see the Ayatollah with a bucket telling his potent nonlinear demagogue to focus on the geology. It’s part slapstick, part warning shot—and maybe just the kind of bizarre theater we need to temper “obliteration” rhetoric with a freakin’ shovel and a prayer.
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