🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 Pickaxe Mountain sits under roughly 900 feet of granite and dirt, so all six remaining bunker busters stacked down one hole wouldn't reach it... and the only way in is a raid every rehearsal turns into a suicide mission
The president keeps naming the MOAB, but it bursts above ground, and the one time it was used in combat, in Afghanistan in 2017, the cave complex was still standing the next morning.
Anthony Aguilar, retired Green Beret lieutenant colonel who watched that strike on the live drone feed, says nothing in the arsenal gets to Iran's uranium:
"The only way that we could ever hope to defeat, not destroy, but to defeat in terms of getting in seizing enriched uranium from that area is to put boots on the ground."
By his count the six bunker busters left can't do it, and the MOAB's real use is against power plants, bridges and water, which is where Iran's lights go out.
He reads the Konarak and Sirik strikes as possible groundwork for a landing in Baloch country to stretch the IRGC, so if Washington restarts this war to crack Pickax, it is choosing between a bomb that can't and a raid that won't come home.
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