Boeing on Tap for Contract to Replace Iran Raid’s Bunker-Busters

Boeing Co. will receive a contract valued at as much as $123 million to replace the 14 massive bunker-busters dropped in June on Iran’s nuclear enrichment and processing facilities, according to a budget document and three people familiar with the transaction.

Weighing 30,000 pounds and measuring six meters (20 feet) long, the Massive Ordnance Penetrator is the world’s largest precision-guided weapon and only saw its combat debut in the June strikes, in which the US used 12 to hit the deeply buried Fordow enrichment facility. The MOPs can penetrate as deep as 200 feet before exploding, according to the US ...