US Wants Smaller Bunker-Buster Bomb | Pentagon Pushes Next-Gen Penetrator, B-21 Integration | VERTEX

Описание: In June 2025’s Operation Midnight Hammer, seven B-2s using the 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) blasted deeply buried Iranian facilities, proving brute force can still work but exposing serious limits — cost, platform dependence and repairable damage — that have driven the US Air Force to pursue a lighter, smarter Next-Generation Penetrator (NGP). The NGP programme, now in prototype, trades mass for flexibility (roughly 22,000 pounds), adds GPS-denied guidance, hardened inertial and alternative geolocation, “void-counting” fuzes and standoff glide capability so more aircraft can deliver precise strikes from safer distances. Alongside improved alloys and nose designs, planners are also exploring non-kinetic options (high-power microwaves, EMP), collapse-and-seal tactics, and robotic subterranean systems — signalling a future in which multi-domain, surgical effects rather than single massive munitions will decide access to the deep.

00:00 - INTRODUCTION
0:39 - US AIR FORCE WANTS SMALLER, DEADLIER BUNKER BUSTER BOMBS
03:08 - THE FUTURE OF UNDERGROUND STRIKES
05:42 - PENTAGON'S SMART STRIKE REVOLUTION

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