After various delays and multiple cost over-runs, the Pentagon has finally unveiled its whiz-bang multi-billion-dollar Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), which will supposedly vaporize hardened underground targets like the invisible nuclear weapons labs in Iran. Bunker-busting bombs to make the world safe for Israel! But…

These things aren’t much like what most people would call a “bomb,” meaning something you drop more or less directly above a target. A more accurate description would be “slow and heavy air-to-surface missile,” with maybe a nickname like “The Flying Slob,” and a range of about 40 miles. Are they vulnerable to radar-guided surface-to-air missiles, interception by conventional aircraft, and GPS interference? Yes indeed!

And there’s actually a fairly significant conclusion to be drawn about these massive low-velocity flying targets: You could shoot them down with a 20mm cannon mounted on (for example) a P51 Mustang or just about anything else that can fly, and so…

Before you deploy these slow fat bombs, you have to destroy every airport and runway in Iran, because if the Iranians get anything off the ground, and I mean anything, they can shoot down all your “Flying Slobs!”

But nobody in the Pentagon or White House wants to sell the war-weary American public a very ugly package like massive, massive bombing all over Iran and total war with a very unpredictable array of allies on the other side, like Russia.

So…

What’s discussed via leaks from “anonymous high-level sources” is something more like “surgical” strikes against hardened nuclear targets… as if a few strikes would be all there was to it!