The United States has struck a major ammunition depot in the Iranian city of Isfahan using 2,000-pound bunker-buster bombs

"no new wars"

Victory ✌️

Hey Peter, man!

C'mon man, I'm trying to sleep.

Babe wake up, new deescalation just dropped. 

I'm using an Adblocker and for me it was a nice clean ad-free site, with the video embedded at the very top of the ad-free article.

Well done. I was waiting for someone to us "decimate" correctly.

I don't think he knows about second obliteration, Pip

Ok i chuckled and spit out my coffee

I think 'sympathetic detonation' would be the term you'd see on paperwork. 

Cooking off more properly is when explosives in a fire get hot enough to explode. There are some videos of the *Forrestal* fire showing bombs cooking off on the flight deck. That would be true for the explosions that started a few minutes after the main blast. The main blast though is more properly sympathetic detonations, when one explosion sets off adjacent explosives.

It’s more likely that they destroyed 100% of the ammunition, given that it’s explosive. I’d guess that the reason Iran has been able to keep firing is that their depots are small and spread out, not that the US can’t blow them up properly when hit.

Isn't the daily missile launch out of Iran down to less than 10% of what it was in the first week or so of the war? Some of that could be due to their running low on ammo but it certainly seems like the attacks are having a pretty tangible impact on their offensive capabilities

I’m always amazed at how people misuse the term “decimation”

I don't believe the president understands percentages?

What’s that in imperial?

Don't move the goalstop

Market manipulation

I think it’s dementia.

I just hope they won't use their wars as excuses to stay in office till they die. Like netanyahu

In the right places.  Oil and water no, ammo and bunkers yes.

[When it's far from any civilian infrastructure](https://x.com/i/status/2038835846334369863), I can get behind it.

There are a bunch of different bombs called bunker busters. The 2,000lb one is likely the BLU-109, which costs around $20-30k each for the base bomb. Most likely has a JDAM kit though, which would about double the cost. The GBU-57, which is the largest, is like $4M a pop, but a lot of that cost is the low quantity.

The 2000 pounders are. JDAMs are incredibly c****. Even the high end ones like the ER variants are 80k a piece

Yes, once air defenses have been eliminated, and then long range bombers can safely fly overhead and drop giant bombs mostly straight down into targets it becomes a much lower cost. Tomahawks and other long-range precision munitions need a lot of fuel, complicated control and guidance systems, because they fly long distances before hitting targets. Needing more fuel and electronics also means carrying less explosives as a fraction of bomb mass. It also makes them extremely expensive.

Always drives me up the wall how bad listnook is at understanding just how much healthcare costs. The US government *already* spends around triple what it does on all military branches on healthcare for the poor and elderly in the form of Medicare and medicaid but most despise hearing it. You could ban military spending and fold every dime spent into healthcare but it is still nowhere near enough to fund a single payer system. Whoever manufactured this "military spending is stopping healthcare" myth never did some very basic math before spreading it.

Quick Google suggests the War on Terror cost four times as much as you’re suggesting. I’m not sure what you mean that there’s “no correlation.” I think most Americans would have preferred to spend that money on healthcare than those wars though.