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Iran built underground missile cities near the Strait of Hormuz. The B-1B is the best tool America has to crack them
2026-03-31

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🇮🇷 Iran built underground missile cities near the Strait of Hormuz. The B-1B is the best tool America has to crack them. So here’s the problem.

Iran’s most critical facilities are buried 1,500 feet deep in solid granite with a natural compressive strength of 25,000 to 40,000 PSI. Against that rock, the world’s most advanced bunker buster is mathematically capped at a penetration depth of just 20 to 30 feet.

Physics dictates the underground facilities remain functionally immune.  Military engineers call the 1,400-foot gap between the bomb’s maximum reach and the facility ceiling the dead zone.

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