Times of India•Mar 18
Us Strike On Iran: US hits Iran near Strait of Hormuz with 5,000-pound 'bunker buster' bomb — what makes this high-cost weapon stand out
"US forces successfully employed multiple 5,000-pound deep penetrator munitions on hardened Iranian missile sites along Iran’s coastline near the Strait of Hormuz," CENTCOM said in a statement on X. The 5,000-pound bombs used in the strike were the GBU-72 Advanced 5K Penetrator, a weapon first deployed in 2021 and designed specifically to penetrate hardened, deeply buried targets. While each bomb reportedly cost around $288,000, they are still less powerful than the 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator used in prior US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.
