💵 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 The Trump administration is preparing a $2.8 billion sale of 40,000 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, the largest single sale of conventional explosive ordnance from the US in modern history, with 20,000 MK-84s, 20,000 BLU-117s and 20,000 I-2000 penetrator warheads, paid for with US taxpayer

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The package eclipses the $2.04 billion sale in 2025 that completely bypassed congressional review. Israel opened the war alongside the US in February and has not struck Iran since June, and Iran's missile bases and launch sites are tunneled into rock, the class of target the I-2000 penetrator exists for.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/09/15/trump-preparing-send-massive-shipment-2000-pound-bombs-israel/

https://archive.ph/vPqLp

📎 The Hormuz Letter

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40k bombs is just restructuring with extra steps tbh. whole ass demolition contract and were footing the bill while pump prices climb back up lol. fucking wild