http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/09/22/us-offer-of-anti-iran-bomb-lands-as-a-dud-in-israel ?This idea is irrelevant for Israel,? a senior Israeli officer told Al-Monitor. ?It is way beyond our means [and] not worth the means, money and effort. We are not capable of maintaining and sustaining it.?
Israeli military experts and former officials are equally skeptical.
They point out that Israel does not possess the heavy bombers ? B-2s or B-52s ? required to deliver the 15-ton Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or GBU-57. And they say only one air base, Nevatim, has runways that could conceivably be upgraded to handle such flights.
Israeli experts also warn that the tiny country would have to invest a fortune in related infrastructure ? simulators, training, facilities, mechanical systems and experts ? to handle such weapons. They argue that Israel came close to buying a dozen V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor troop transports last year before putting the $800 million deal on ice after weighing all the associated costs.
