John Spencer to Newsmax: Need at Least 2 ‘Bunker Busters’ at Fordo

It would likely take more than one of the United States’ massive “bunker-buster” bombs to take out Iran’s Fordo nuclear facility, retired U.S. Army Maj. John Spencer, the author of “Understanding Urban Warfare,” told Newsmax Saturday, after the U.S. military said it is moving B-2 bombers to Guam that are capable of carrying the bombs. 

The B-2 can be equipped to carry and designed to destroy targets deep underground.”

“The bunker buster is just for any suite of munitions that’s designed to penetrate the ground first before exploding, not on the surface,” Spencer told Newsmax’s “Saturday Agenda.” “The ones that most people are talking about that Israel doesn’t have are these massive ordnance penetrators, which are specifically designed to go deeper than some of the other bunker busters.”

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