On the Sunday night of June 22, the United States struck Iran's nuclear facilities, three targets at once: Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. In the attack on Fordow, the U.S. military for the first time used GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator anti-bunker bombs, whereas the other two locations were targeted primarily by cruise missiles — about 30 BGM-109 Tomahawks total (and two more GBU-57s on the facility in Natanz).
Israel had previously carried out raids against these sites, destroying about three-quarters of their industrial capacity, while the United States finished the job with a strike of its own.
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The specific types of Tomahawk missile deployed for the mission are not specified, but the Chief National Security Correspondent for Fox News, Jennifer Griffin, adds interesting insights about this strike.
Firstly, reportedly, the Tomahawk missiles were launched from a converted Ohio-class submarine.
Secondly, the hardest target for the American military to reach through the layers of rock was not the Fordow but in Isfahan, where they didn't use penetrator ordinance, only Tomahawk missiles. In fact, the Pentagon hasn't confirmed yet whether they managed to destroy this facility effectively.
Earlier, Defense Express covered a historical episode when iran took away AWACS from Iraq but couldn't use them to repel Israel's airstrikes.
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