The US reportedly carried out an airstrike on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility using bunker-buster bombs, targeting its enrichment complex as the West Asia conflict entered its fourth week.

Did US use ‘bunker buster’ bombs to strike Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility? What we know

Bunker buster bombs use kinetic energy weight generating force. GBU-28 steel casing from eight-inch artillery barrels. Laser guidance enables precision targeting accuracy. GBU-28 can penetrate 160 feet earth 22 feet concrete. 

‘Deep penetration before explosion’: How a bunker buster bomb works

Concrete penetrator bombs destroy underground targets using extreme kinetic energy, hardened steel casings and delayed-action fuzes. Weapons like the GBU-28 and GBU-57 penetrate deep into concrete or rock before detonating, collapsing bunkers and buried military facilities from within.

‘Concrete penetrators’: How bunker buster bombs destroy underground targets

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is modifying the Agni-5 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to turn it into a bunker-busting weapon.

India to get its own bunker-buster? Agni-5 missile to get 7,500 kg warhead to destroy deeply buried enemy targets

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