The United States Department of Defence, the Pentagon, has released videos of the strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. This comes after several reports claimed the attack caused significant damage to Iran’s nuclear programme, while others suggested the destruction was minimal, as Iran had reportedly removed its uranium from the targeted sites before the blasts.
In a news conference on Thursday, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave a detailed explanation of the planning the execution of the US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. The footage showed bunker buster bombs falling on Fordow nuclear site.
The footage was shared by Gen. Caine, which showed bunker buster bombs falling on the Fordow nuclear site. Hegseth disagreed with the secret Defence Intelligence Agency report, which claimed the strikes only damaged the Iranian facilities but didn’t destroy them. In response, he strongly insisted that the attack was far more severe, using words like “decimating,” “obliterating,” and “destroying” to describe the level of destruction.
So the Pentagon "proved" the Fordow strikes were successful by showing random old footage from a few years ago — captured at a US test range — without explicitly saying so. Cool. pic.twitter.com/6zfF2labXn
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Videos of the bombing were played and explained clearly. Footages of all the bombings were also shown. However, the damage done by a bunker-buster bomb was absent from the footage, as it cannot be seen on the surface level.
“A bomb has three effects that cause damage: blast, fragmentation and overpressure. In this case, the primary kill mechanisms in the mission space were a mix of overpressure and blast,” Gen Caine said.
Three Iranian Nuke Sites Suffered Heavy Damage
“A bomb has three effects that cause damage: blast, fragmentation and overpressure. In this case, the primary kill mechanisms in the mission space were a mix of overpressure and blast,” Gen Caine said. Israel and the US claimed that three Iranian nuke sites suffered heavy damage. US president Donald Trump said that the locations have been obliterated in the attacks by the US Air Force. However, Iran has acknowledged the US strike; they stated that the damage is not as significant as claimed.
