"To destroy the uranium centrifuge halls at Natanz alone, analysts have argued, might require up to 80 5,000lb penetrating bombs dropped in almost simultaneous pairs to allow the second bomb to burrow through the crater of the first. Opera (Osirak) required just a handful of bombs.
To strike even the bare minimum of so-called target sets associated with Natanz and Bushehr without the assistance of US cruise missiles fired from their ships in the Persian Gulf would require a massive military effort and, according to the Israeli air force`s own assessments, might risk the loss of large numbers of its aircraft for a temporary impact."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/29/israelandthepalestinians.middleeast |
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