bunker-busting

As the Americans blasted Tora Bora with bunker-busting bombs, bin Laden escaped with the help of lieutenants for a local warlord, Maulvi Yunus Khalis, who had fought with bin Laden against the Red Army, according to officials including Michael Scheuer, former CIA pointman in the hunt for the al-Qaida chief.

Accounts piece together bin Laden's fugitive trail 2011

A missile appeared to have landed and penetrated through a smaller hole before blowing up the gaping crater shown to reporters — a pattern typical of bunker-busting bombs.

Pressure mounts on Gadhafi within Libya's capital 2011

Also, while we do not advocate an Israeli military strike against Iran, we believe that enhancing Israel's military capabilities—by providing it with 200 advanced GBU-31 bunker-busting munitions and three KC-135 refueling tankers to extend the range of its jets—would improve Israeli credibility and help convince the Iranians to pursue a diplomatic solution.

Bolstering the Military Option on Iran Charles S. Robb 2012

In an audio recording two weeks later, a day after NATO had blasted his headquarters with bunker-busting bombs, he said: I tell the coward crusaders: I live in a place where you can't get me.

Eccentric and Brutal, He Met End as a Fugitive Richard Boudreaux 2011

He remembered what Cyrus had told him at Camp Cobra, about the bunker-busting warhead that would burrow into the ground before exploding.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

Providing Israel with advanced bunker-busting munitions and refueling tankers to extend the range of its jets would help convince the Iranians to pursue a diplomatic solution.

Bolstering the Military Option on Iran Charles S. Robb 2012

And almost every day Israeli fighter jets roared over Beirut and dropped bunker-busting bombs on Haret Hreik, the neighborhood we were driving toward, where a photographer friend had told us that Hezbollah would be leading a “tour.”

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

It was not until 1997, when the bunker-busting B-61-11s were deployed, that retirement of B-53s began - but not disassembly.

Story of B-53 'bunker buster' is a lesson in managing nuclear weapons Walter Pincus 2010

Meanwhile, Britain's defense minister says London is adding “bunker-busting” bombs to the arsenal of British warplanes involved in the NATO campaign against the Libyan government.

South African President Urged to Focus on Human Rights in Libya 2011

No conventional bunker-busting missile could reach that far.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011