Coverage includes hourly updates, all Times stories since NATO launched its attack, video clips, information on how to help the refugees, a primer on the conflict and access to our discussion group. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is a Pentagon organization tasked with combating weapons of mass destruction, including WMDs stored deep underground in concrete bunkers, tunnels, and. Air Force has developed a new, lighter bunker-buster bomb that can be launched from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
“They have five or six layers of redundancy,” said Charles Heyman, a retired British officer and editor of “Jane’s World Armies.” “These people are very, very clever.”Įxtended coverage of the crisis in Yugoslavia is available at The Times’ Web site at. The most sophisticated have multiple backup systems of communications and electricity and can continue to function through repeated bombings. Yet some analysts say that the best-outfitted among them would be very hard for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to destroy, even with its deep-reaching bombs. a bomb that goes deep into the ground or rock and explodes underground. The Yugoslav bunkers are said to be relatively spartan. For that reason, he placed many of them in mountainous Bosnia-Herzegovina.ĭuring Bosnia’s war earlier this decade, one of the bunkers served as headquarters for Ratko Mladic, commander of the Bosnian Serb military. In 2020, bunker busters can actually mean a range of options: from the US’s Massive Ordinance Penetrator MOP, to its Mother of All Bombs MOAB, to variations of those weapons. Tito envisioned using the bunkers as command posts to battle an invader in a protracted partisan struggle. Yet these are not well sheltered from modern weaponry and probably could “be taken out by any plane with a modern missile,” said Vego, who now teaches at the U.S. The Yugoslav military also built huge shelters on the Dalmatian coast to protect smaller ships of the country’s navy, such as torpedo boats and submarines, said Milan Vego, a former Yugoslav military officer.
The strike marked the first use of the munition, which was widely employed in the Gulf War. The facility housed up to two squadrons of MIG-21 fighters. Last Friday, NATO warplanes used the bunker-buster to blow up the tunnels of an underground shelter near the airport at Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. Since the threat of the Cold War receded, the bunkers have been adapted for conventional warfare. Yuriy Malashko, governor of the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, said a guided aviation bomb was used in Sundays attack on a school building being used to distribute aid in the small town of. Tito began building the network after World War II because of his fears that Yugoslavia could come under nuclear attack by either the Soviet Union or the West. This indicated a devastating explosion within the bunker. And the Yugoslav military has dozens of other such underground facilities scattered across the country to help it direct the resistance if the nation is invaded. F-111Fs Dropped GBU-28 5000-lb Bunker Busting Bombs on Saddams Bunker at Al Taji Air Base.
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