cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/32212238
By MEE staff Published date: 24 June 2025 22:12 BST
Last update:~17:20 EDT"CNN reported on Tuesday that an initial assessment of the strikes by the US Defence Intelligence Agency was that the main components of Iran’s nuclear programme were intact and likely only set back by months.
This flies in the face of Trump saying that the US air strikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear programme. The White House trumpeted its bombing of Iran’s Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz enrichment complexes as a major military feat that surprised Iran."
I think it would be trivial for the US to bury some bunkers in the desert, choke them full of cameras and sensors and test their bombs on them.
There is no reason why this kind of weapon would be needed to be “life tested” to understand its effects.
Systems that directly compete with defensive systems, weapons on soldiers, tactics and so on need to be tested in actual combat sure.
The only thjng the US learned here is that Iran is not capable of shooting down B2s, which isnt all that surprising.