"bunker-busting bomb" is missing from the roster being formed over there.
The U.S. Air Force started an intense research and development process to create a new bunker-busting bomb to reach and destroy these bunkers.
The Super Hornet patrol was prepared to attack it with bunker-busting bombs, weapons designed to penetrate concrete and guided to their targets by satellite.
They were the forerunners of modern bunker-busting bombs.
Two F-117 Stealth fighters dropped bunker-busting bombs on the site, while warships fired nearly 40 cruise missiles.
Obama administration 'supplied bunker-busting bombs to Israel'
Warplanes have dropped 5,000-pound bunker-busting bombs that are designed to burrow more than four stories down before detonating in subterranean Taliban command compounds.
No secrets about bunker-busting bombs were actually obtained, but the network was betrayed.
Without the target's coordinates locked in, Colonel Toomey could drop only one of the plane's two special bunker-busting bombs, reducing the surprise attack's chances for success.
Tips on Mr. Hussein's whereabouts, which led to quick-strike missions by cruise missiles and bunker-busting bombs, were attributed to humint.