據環球時報報道，一名美國官員告訴美國有線電視新聞網 (CNN)，美國動用6架B-2轟炸機向伊朗福爾道核設施投擲了12枚“掩體炸彈”。

此外，美國海軍潛艇還向納坦茲和伊斯法罕的核設施發射了30枚“戰斧”巡航導彈。

The US used six B-2 bombers to drop a dozen “bunker buster” bombs on the Fordow nuclear site, a US official told CNN. Fox News host Sean Hannity said Tomahawk missiles from US submarines struck the Natanz and Isfahan sites.

B-2轟炸機 圖源：外媒

美媒所說的“掩體炸彈”，即GBU-57A/B巨型鉆地炸彈 (MOP)，重達30000磅（約合13.6噸），裝有6000磅（約合2.7噸）炸藥。

The bombs used in the strikes were GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrators, known as a “bunker busters”, two sources familiar with the operation said. Experts have highlighted them as the only type of bomb potentially capable of destroying Iran’s underground Fordow nuclear facility.

根據美國空軍的情況說明書，MOP的設計目的是“接觸并摧毀對手位于嚴密保護設施中的大規模殺傷性武器”。這是該型號炸彈首次投入實戰。

GBU-57A/B巨型鉆地炸彈 (MOP) 圖源：美聯社

此前，美國官員和專家表示，“掩體炸彈”是唯一能夠摧毀福爾道地下核設施的武器，該核設施建在山上并延伸到地下深處。美國空軍的B-2轟炸機是唯一能夠實際使用這種炸彈的飛機。

The MOP — a 30,000-pound bomb with 6,000 pounds of explosives — was designed for “reaching and destroying our adversaries’ weapons of mass destruction located in well-protected facilities,” according to a fact sheet from the US Air Force.

The B-2 is the only aircraft in the US inventory that can carry the GBU-57A/B.

Saturday is the first known instance of the bomb being used operationally.

據CNN報道，伊朗福爾道核設施歷來被視為敏感目標，此前多屆美國政府雖曾考慮打擊，最終均放棄行動。特朗普此次直接下令攻擊，使其深陷不斷升級的中東危機漩渦，而此前他曾主張通過外交途徑化解矛盾。

The move to target the Fordow facility in particular, which successive US presidents had considered but ultimately decided against, will now insert Trump directly into a growing crisis that he had once hoped to defuse through diplomacy.

來源：環球時報 CNN 新聞周刊

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