Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine demonstrates how GBU-57 MOPs work:
“Unlike a normal surface bomb, you won’t see an impact crater because they’re designed to deeply bury and then function. I know there’s been a lot of questions about that. All six weapons at each vent at Fordow went exactly where they were intended to go. A bomb has three effects that causes damage: blast, fragmentation, and overpressure. In this case, the primary kill mechanism in the mission space was a mix of overpressure and blast ripping through the open tunnels and destroying critical hardware. The majority of the damage, we assessed based on our extensive modeling, was a blast layer combined with the impulse extending from the shock. Imagine what this looks like six times over.”
