{"id":166856,"date":"2025-08-05T16:16:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T16:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=166856"},"modified":"2025-08-05T16:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T16:16:19","slug":"massive-us-bunker-buster-bombs-make-combat-debut-in-iran-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=166856","title":{"rendered":"Massive US bunker-buster bombs make combat debut in Iran strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful US bunker-busting bomb was used in combat for the first time when Washington struck Iranian nuclear sites this weekend.Israel had carried out a week of air strikes on Iran, but does not possess the GBU-57 &#8212; a 30,000-pound (13,600 kilogram) weapon viewed as necessary to reach the most deeply buried facilities &#8212; or the aircraft needed to deploy it.General Dan Caine&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2025\/06\/massive-us-bunker-buster-bombs-make-combat-debut-iran-strikes\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful US bunker-busting bomb was used in combat for the first time when Washington<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166856-massive-us-bunker-buster-bombs-make-combat-debut-in-iran-strikes.jpg",1200,628,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166856-massive-us-bunker-buster-bombs-make-combat-debut-in-iran-strikes-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166856-massive-us-bunker-buster-bombs-make-combat-debut-in-iran-strikes-300x157.jpg",300,157,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166856-massive-us-bunker-buster-bombs-make-combat-debut-in-iran-strikes-768x402.jpg",640,335,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166856-massive-us-bunker-buster-bombs-make-combat-debut-in-iran-strikes-1024x536.jpg",640,335,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166856-massive-us-bunker-buster-bombs-make-combat-debut-in-iran-strikes.jpg",1200,628,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166856-massive-us-bunker-buster-bombs-make-combat-debut-in-iran-strikes.jpg",1200,628,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166856-massive-us-bunker-buster-bombs-make-combat-debut-in-iran-strikes-1024x536.jpg",1024,536,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166856-massive-us-bunker-buster-bombs-make-combat-debut-in-iran-strikes-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166856-massive-us-bunker-buster-bombs-make-combat-debut-in-iran-strikes-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>","tag_info":"Saudi Arabia","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/166857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}