WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:01.199 Horn and fair of face. 2 00:00:01.280 --> 00:00:02.040 Morning Ding dong. 3 00:00:02.640 --> 00:00:05.599 Hey, I'm just kind of curious. The census doesn't count 4 00:00:05.639 --> 00:00:08.199 people that are staying in hotels and motels, do they? 5 00:00:09.759 --> 00:00:12.839 I mean, you know, that would just boost the numbers 6 00:00:12.919 --> 00:00:18.600 for people for representation. Most of the people who stay 7 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:22.160 in motels are US citizens, but they don't get counted correctly, 8 00:00:24.239 --> 00:00:27.199 even if they are just passing by. Kind of seems 9 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:29.120 weird that they be doing the illegal. 10 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:34.119 I think we just, well, don't we just make up 11 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:37.079 a number every state? Just make it, just make up 12 00:00:37.119 --> 00:00:40.240 a number. I don't normally do this, and it's and 13 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:42.880 it's risky because it may just fall flat on its face. 14 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:49.320 But because I'm curious, then I want you to be curious. 15 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:56.479 At eight o'clock Eastern time six o'clock our time, the 16 00:00:56.560 --> 00:00:59.240 Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs 17 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:03.640 held a news conference to hold a second briefing on 18 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:08.959 the success of the Iranian strikes. Well, I've been watching 19 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:14.000 and our clipping service hasn't posted anything, but a couple 20 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:17.719 of other outlets have. Let's see one, Fox News has 21 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:22.840 posted something and MSNB has posted something. So let's start 22 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:28.200 with Fox because they start out with Hegsath at the beginning, 23 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:33.599 and let's listen to what he had to say. I'm honestly, 24 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:36.359 with all due respect to the Secretary of Defense, I'm 25 00:01:36.359 --> 00:01:39.280 more interested in what the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs 26 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:41.599 had to say. But let's listen to a couple of 27 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:44.519 minutes of the Secretary of Defense, and then we'll skip 28 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:50.359 back over and we'll go to the General Kine and 29 00:01:50.439 --> 00:01:52.719 see what he had to say. So here we go. 30 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:57.040 Let's we're doing this together. Find out what they said. 31 00:01:58.319 --> 00:02:00.920 Maybe interesting, dolls. 32 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:06.159 Hell, game changing and historic, a shift in burden sharing 33 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:11.319 to European responsibility in NATO that most would have said 34 00:02:11.400 --> 00:02:14.280 was impossible at the beginning of his term. 35 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:16.439 But he said NATO needs to pay up. 36 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:20.560 They started in the first term, and here in his 37 00:02:20.599 --> 00:02:22.199 second term, we've accelerated that. 38 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:25.919 Thirty two NATO countries committed to spending five percent. 39 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:29.560 Of their GDP on defense on actually investing in the 40 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:30.400 NATO alliance. 41 00:02:31.159 --> 00:02:31.919 So I hope, with. 42 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:35.639 All the inkspilled, all of your outlets find the time 43 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:43.039 to properly recognize this historic change in continental security that 44 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:45.439 other presidents tried to do, other presidents talked about. 45 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:49.080 President Trump accomplished it. It's a huge deal. 46 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:53.599 You see, we're here this morning because in hunting for 47 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:57.080 scandals all the time, in trying to find wedges and 48 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:04.319 spin stories, Corps and the press Corps miss historic moments, 49 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:08.560 miss historic moments like five percent at NATO, which when 50 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:10.280 you hear I was in the closed door briefing, I 51 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:12.000 wish there could have been cameras in there when you 52 00:03:12.039 --> 00:03:14.680 heard the prime ministers and presidents of other countries to 53 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:17.039 a man and to a woman looking at President Trump 54 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:18.159 and saying, this never could. 55 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:19.879 Have happened, never would have happened. 56 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:23.599 This seemed impossible five years ago, two years ago, eight 57 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:24.120 years ago. 58 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:27.520 But here we are because of your leadership. If you 59 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:30.719 ask them the question, I bet they'd say the same thing. 60 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:34.759 But searching for scandals, you miss historic moments like recruiting 61 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:38.680 at the Pentagon historic levels, and the Army, the Air Force, 62 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:39.319 and the Navy. 63 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:41.439 Yeah, maybe there'll be a little mention here or there. 64 00:03:41.479 --> 00:03:45.360 But because it was under President Trump's leadership, because it 65 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:48.879 was because Americans are responding to him as commander in chief, 66 00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:52.039 the press Corps doesn't want to write about it or 67 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:53.759 bring us to the topic of the moment. 68 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:59.199 On the highly successful strikes in Iran. Let me read 69 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:00.599 the bottom lying here. 70 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:06.240 President Trump directed the most complex and secretive military operation 71 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:10.400 in history, and it was a resounding success, resulting in 72 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:15.479 a ceasefire agreement and the end of the Twelve Day War. 73 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:17.800 There's been a lot of discussions about what happened to 74 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:18.480 what didn't happen. 75 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:19.720 Step back for a second. 76 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:23.879 Because of decisive military action, President Trump created the conditions 77 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:31.000 to end the war, decimating choose your word, obliterating, destroying 78 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:36.319 Iran's nuclear capabilities. I want to read some of the 79 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:41.000 assessments that have been provided, because whether it's fake news, CNN, 80 00:04:41.480 --> 00:04:46.079 MSNBC or the New York Times, there's been fawning coverage 81 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:48.160 of a preliminary assessment. 82 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:49.120 I've had a chance to read it. 83 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:55.000 Every outlet has breathlessly reported on a preliminary assessment from DA. 84 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:58.439 I want to pause it for just a moment. I 85 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:03.439 want to mention something about the Defense Intelligence Agency. There's 86 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:12.079 a hierarchy in the intelligence community and it the d 87 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:18.199 i A probably ranks in the bottom third of that hierarchy. 88 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:25.279 And insofar as the PDB, the Presidential Daily brief when 89 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:28.040 when they when those briefers from the CIA or the 90 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:30.319 d N I would come to my office to give 91 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:35.160 that briefing in terms of a just take a topic. 92 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:37.959 Whatever the topic may be, doesn't make any difference. Let's 93 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:42.360 say there's some uprising in I don't know Poland. So 94 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:46.519 an uprising is going on in Poland. Well, every part, 95 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:50.279 every aspect of the IC of the intelligence community will 96 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:54.839 have their human intelligence, their signal intelligence. They'll have their 97 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:58.199 their analysts back here in or or back there in 98 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:02.120 d C H or Fort Meta, wherever whoever it might be, 99 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:05.759 or Langley. Those analysts will take all that human and 100 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:10.120 signal intelligence and they'll analyze it. They'll also analyze, interestingly, 101 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:13.160 analyze all of the stuff that's into public domain. What 102 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:16.160 are what are the local reporters saying, what are the 103 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:19.879 international reporters saying, what are the cable channels saying. They'll 104 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:22.839 they'll compare and contrast all of that. The point being, 105 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:26.240 there's this hierarchy, and the D I A is in 106 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:29.839 the lower hierarchy. So if I'm looking at a chapter 107 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:32.759 in the daily Brief that happens to be on uprising 108 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:38.000 in Poland, there will be put together by the C 109 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:40.560 I A. Now the D and I there will be 110 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:43.639 the overall brief that takes into consideration all of the 111 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:47.680 other n s A, the the d i A, all 112 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:50.839 of all all of the components, I mean even Homeland security. 113 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:53.560 Every component will have theirs, but there will be the 114 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:57.199 one at the top that is a compilation based on 115 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:02.800 their analysis, is of everybody else, and usually the d 116 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:07.759 i A is one of the first. Therefore one of 117 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:12.120 the least reliable, and one that is not given as 118 00:07:12.199 --> 00:07:16.519 much credence as what is normally given, particularly to the president. 119 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:19.839 Like you would not give the president just the d 120 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:25.079 I A briefing, they would get the entire ic briefing. 121 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:29.079 So when he talks about the Defense Intelligence Agency, I 122 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:34.480 always took it with a slight eye of skepticism. It's 123 00:07:35.279 --> 00:07:39.360 it's kind of the equivalent of the first reporter on 124 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:42.120 the scene of an accident, or the scene of a crime, 125 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:45.720 or the scene of a natural disaster. Those first reports 126 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:49.079 are generally and there's some truth to them, but they're 127 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:51.839 not entirely accurate, And as you get more contacts and 128 00:07:51.839 --> 00:08:02.399 more information, the entire com the entire complexity of that 129 00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:04.759 particular report may change over time. 130 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:09.199 I'm looking at it right now again. It was preliminary 131 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:11.399 A day and a half after the actual strike. 132 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:14.160 When it admits itself. 133 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:16.439 In writing that it requires weeks to accumulate the necessary 134 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:17.639 data to make such an assessment. 135 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:18.800 It's preliminary. 136 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:21.319 It points out that it's not been coordinated with the 137 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:26.000 intelligence community at all. There's low confidence in this particular 138 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:28.199 report's oh, that's interesting. 139 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:32.519 The Secretary of Defense is making my exact point. So 140 00:08:32.600 --> 00:08:35.279 I'm curious where he's going with this. But he just 141 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:38.320 made my point. I didn't know he's going to say that. 142 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:40.440 I just hadn't de positive there because he mentioned DA 143 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:43.679 and he just confirmed what I said. 144 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:46.000 It says in the report. There are gaps in the information. 145 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:50.480 It says in the report multiple lynchpin assumptions are what 146 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:52.720 this assessment a lynchpin assumption. 147 00:08:52.759 --> 00:08:53.399 You know what that is. 148 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:56.480 It means your entire premise is predicated on a lynch pin. 149 00:08:56.519 --> 00:08:58.159 If you're wrong, everything else is wrong. 150 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:03.759 And yet still this report acknowledge is it's likely severe damage. 151 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:05.120 Again, this is preliminary, but. 152 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:08.519 Leaked because someone had an agenda to try to muddy 153 00:09:08.519 --> 00:09:10.799 the waters and make it look like this historic strike 154 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:13.240 I wasn't successful. I'm gonna get to the chairman in 155 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:15.879 a moment because he's gonna lay out the particulars for 156 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:18.519 you based on his professional military experience. 157 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:21.200 But here's what other folks are saying. The d IA 158 00:09:21.320 --> 00:09:21.919 that put that. 159 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:25.879 Report out says, this is a preliminary low confidence report 160 00:09:25.919 --> 00:09:31.080 and will continue to be refined as additional intelligence becomes available. 161 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:35.240 Okay, if that's the case, then I want to I 162 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:38.440 want to skip that and let's just go I think 163 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:41.120 he's just gonna make whatever points he wants to make politically. 164 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:45.360 Let's instead go to General dan Kine the termine of 165 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:51.120 the Joint Jesus of Staff UH and see what he says. 166 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:52.639 Transfers. 167 00:09:53.799 --> 00:09:54.679 You got to get rid of that. 168 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:55.480 Here we go. 169 00:09:55.879 --> 00:09:57.519 Thank you for thank you for being here. 170 00:09:57.879 --> 00:10:01.000 As a follow up to my comments on Sunday press conference, 171 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:03.080 I wanted to give you a few updates this. 172 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:06.080 Morning on something I'm honored to do as a. 173 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:08.559 Chairman, and that's a chance to get to talk about 174 00:10:08.639 --> 00:10:12.039 some of our service members and the incredible things that 175 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:14.919 they do on behalf of our nation. And I apologize 176 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:18.120 ahead of time for the length and the detail. Today, 177 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:20.200 I'm going to brief you on a couple of things. First, 178 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:22.200 I'm going to talk about our air defenders at al 179 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:25.559 you did in Qatar and their actions on Monday. Then 180 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:27.320 I'm going to walk you through a little bit about 181 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:30.799 the academics that went into the attack against four dah, 182 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:34.480 the massive ordnance penetrator weapon, and we're going to show 183 00:10:34.519 --> 00:10:37.600 a video that highlights the. 184 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:39.320 Effects that that weapon has. 185 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:41.679 Of course, nobody was down inside the target, so we 186 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:46.320 don't have video from the target first. On Monday, as 187 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:49.080 the President has stated, on Monday morning, we began to 188 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:54.480 receive indications and warnings that Iran intended to attack US 189 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:58.200 bass in the region that morning. Building on the work 190 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:02.360 that Sencom Commander Eric Carilla had done and on the 191 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:06.720 orders of the President. At Alud'd Airbase and Katar and 192 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:10.000 around the region, we assumed a minimum force posture. 193 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:12.840 Most folks had moved off. 194 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:16.240 The base to extend the security perimeter out away from 195 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:21.039 what we assessed might be a target zone, except for 196 00:11:21.159 --> 00:11:25.919 a very few Army soldiers at alu Ded at that point, 197 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:29.279 only two Patriot batteries remained on base. 198 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:32.440 Roughly forty four American. 199 00:11:32.039 --> 00:11:37.559 Soldiers responsible for defending the entire base to include Sencom's 200 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:41.600 forward headquarters in the Middle East and entire air base, 201 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:42.360 and all. 202 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:43.720 The US forces there. 203 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:48.240 The oldest soldier was a twenty eight year old captain. 204 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:52.000 The youngest was a twenty one year old private who'd 205 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:56.039 been in the military for less than two years. So 206 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:59.159 let's put ourselves out there for a second. Imagine you're 207 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:03.399 that young first lieutenant. You're twenty five or twenty six 208 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:07.360 years old, and you've been assigned as the tactical director 209 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:12.080 inside the command and Control element. You at that age 210 00:12:12.200 --> 00:12:17.720 are the sole person responsible to defend this base. Listening 211 00:12:17.799 --> 00:12:21.000 next to you is your early warning operator, whose job 212 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:24.720 is to notify you of imminent attack. There's five people 213 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:28.759 inside a vehicle and five people outside of a vehicle 214 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:32.679 around these total of as I said, forty four. By 215 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:36.360 the way, you've sat in the Middle East for years, 216 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:43.159 deployed over and over again, extended multiple times, always being prepared, 217 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:47.360 but unsure of when that particular day will come that 218 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:51.480 you must execute your mission and not fail at doing it. 219 00:12:51.919 --> 00:12:55.399 In this case, these Patriot crews were deployed from Korea 220 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:58.840 and Japan as part of our US forces there to 221 00:12:59.039 --> 00:13:02.200 ensure that we had the most capable missiles in the 222 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:07.440 sentcom area of responsibility. As the day continues, you start 223 00:13:07.480 --> 00:13:10.840 to hear more and more chatter in the information space 224 00:13:10.919 --> 00:13:15.200 about an appending attack, and as the sun starts to 225 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:18.840 set in the west, you get orders from your higher 226 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:22.159 headquarters to make sure that your missile batteries are pointed 227 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:26.000 to the north. There are just a few other teammates. 228 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:30.000 It's hot, you're getting nervous, and you expect an attack 229 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:34.919 outside of those Patriot vehicles. Your hot crew, which is 230 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:38.919 one NCO and four additional soldiers, turns a key and 231 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:43.759 relinquishes control of those missiles to that young lieutenant inside 232 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:44.559 the vehicle. 233 00:13:45.159 --> 00:13:45.879 And you wait. 234 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:50.200 You know that you're going to have approximately two minutes, 235 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:54.600 one hundred and twenty seconds to either succeed or fail. 236 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:59.559 And then at approximately twelve thirty pm on Monday, that's 237 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:04.000 seven thirty pm in Katar, as the sun sets in the. 238 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:11.600 West, Iran attacks. As the targets were detected, round after round. 239 00:14:11.480 --> 00:14:15.320 Of Patriot missiles are ejected from their canisters by an 240 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:16.840 initial launch charge. 241 00:14:17.159 --> 00:14:17.960 Then the main. 242 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:21.279 Solid rocket motor ignites. You can feel this in your 243 00:14:21.360 --> 00:14:24.399 body if you've ever been around a Patriot taking a shot, 244 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:27.960 and round after round goes out and guides against those 245 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:32.679 missiles coming inbound. We believe that this is the largest 246 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:38.080 single patriot engagement in US military history, and we were enjoyed. 247 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:42.279 We were joined in this engagement by the Katari Patriot crews. 248 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:45.559 I'm not going to tell you how many rounds were shot, 249 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:49.519 but it was a bunch because of classified purposes, and 250 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:52.840 we're aware that something there's reports of something getting through. 251 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:54.799 What we do know is there was a lot of 252 00:14:54.879 --> 00:15:01.200 metal flying around between attacking missiles being hit by Patriot boosters, 253 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:05.960 from attacking missiles being hit by patriots, the Patriots themselves 254 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:09.600 flying around in the debris from those Patriots hitting the ground. 255 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:12.679 There was a lot of metal flying around, and yet 256 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:17.000 our US air defenders had only seconds to make complex 257 00:15:17.080 --> 00:15:22.039 decisions with strategic impact. These awesome humans, along with their 258 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:26.080 Katari brothers and sisters and arms, stood between a salvo 259 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:29.279 of Iranian missiles and the safety of value. 260 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:30.879 Deed, they are the. 261 00:15:30.840 --> 00:15:34.879 Unsung heroes of the twenty first century United States Army. 262 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:36.720 And I know a lot of you have seen the 263 00:15:36.840 --> 00:15:41.039 videos online and the excitement as those Patriots departed their 264 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:43.120 launchers and went up and guided. 265 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:46.639 This really demonstrates. 266 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:50.600 The combat capability and capacity of our army Air defenders 267 00:15:51.159 --> 00:15:54.559 simply stated, they absolutely crushed it. 268 00:15:56.039 --> 00:15:59.879 If you'd flip this over. Thanks. Let me Let me next. 269 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:05.559 Move to a walkthrough of the GBU fifty seven Massive 270 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:09.360 Ordnance Penetrator weapon and share a little bit about the 271 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:13.320 planners who did this and their work on the weapon. First, 272 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:18.240 let me set the stage for you. There's an organization 273 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:22.440 in the US called the Defense Threat Reduction Agency DITRA. 274 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:26.960 DITTRA does a lot of things for our nation, but 275 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:32.519 DITTRA is the world's leading expert on deeply buried underground targets. 276 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:37.559 In two thousand and nine, a Defense Threat Reduction Agency 277 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:41.559 officer was brought into a vault at an undisclosed location 278 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:46.399 and briefed on something going on in Iran. For security purposes, 279 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:49.039 I'm not going to share his name. He was shown 280 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:52.840 some photos and some highly classified intelligence of what looked 281 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:55.279 like a major construction project. 282 00:16:55.080 --> 00:16:56.240 In the mountains of Iran. 283 00:16:56.759 --> 00:16:59.759 He was tasked to study this facility, work with the 284 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:03.759 diligence community to understand it, and he was soon joined 285 00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:07.960 by an additional teammate. For more than fifteen years, this 286 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:12.079 off ser and his teammate lived and breathed this single 287 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:17.440 target four dough, a critical element of Iran's covert nuclear well. 288 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:20.799 We haven't got to what they did though, Michael previous 289 00:17:21.160 --> 00:17:25.119 talkbacker just call one of you there space. 290 00:17:27.519 --> 00:17:28.759 No, he's referring to Dragon. 291 00:17:29.720 --> 00:17:31.640 No, no, no, I'm ding Dong. You're fair and face. 292 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:35.400 I'd rather be ding Dung. 293 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:41.559 That sucks to you, then, Dragon, I. 294 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:43.359 Were just complaining during the break. 295 00:17:43.599 --> 00:17:44.880 Well, Dragon wasn't complaining. 296 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:48.839 I was complaining about our clipping service, you know, something 297 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:51.720 as big as this briefing that they didn't already have it. 298 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:52.640 Up for us to use. 299 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:57.400 But during the break I did find, ironically on ABC News. 300 00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:00.880 So ABC News has up on their website the part 301 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:04.960 where General kin the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, has 302 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:06.880 been describing what DITRA does. 303 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:08.759 And I've got the whole thing up at Michael says, 304 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:09.559 go here dot com. 305 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:12.319 Yeah, but don't go there yet. Listen here first, then 306 00:18:12.359 --> 00:18:15.319 you can go there. So here's General Kane. I think 307 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:19.200 I found the inflection point where he really shifts from 308 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:23.240 He just described what DITRA does and how this team's 309 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:27.640 been working for years studying Fedor and what that site 310 00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:32.160 is like and how it is, how it has been hardened. 311 00:18:32.759 --> 00:18:36.359 So now he's going to describe what they did. This 312 00:18:36.440 --> 00:18:37.359 is what I wanted to hear. 313 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:39.680 I am so honored to be a part of this. 314 00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:43.960 To you both, thank you and thank you to your families. 315 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:48.680 Operation Midnight Hammer was the culmination of those fifteen years 316 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:51.640 of incredible work, the air crews, the tanker crews, the 317 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:54.680 weapons crews that built the weapons, the load crews that 318 00:18:54.799 --> 00:18:55.279 loaded in. 319 00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:57.960 Before I run through this video, today. 320 00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:00.519 I want to talk a little bit about weaponears and 321 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:05.400 what goes into an attack. Weaponeering is the science of 322 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:08.799 evaluating a target. I mentioned all of those factors before 323 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:13.319 that these two DITRA officers had thought about. Ultimately, weaponeering 324 00:19:13.440 --> 00:19:18.519 is determining the right weapon and fuse combination to achieve 325 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:23.119 the desired effects and maximum destruction against a target. In 326 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:27.119 the case of four DAH, the DITTER team understood with 327 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:30.839 a high degree of confidence the elements of the target 328 00:19:30.920 --> 00:19:34.559 required to kill its functions, and the weapons were designed, 329 00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:39.720 planned and delivered to ensure that they achieved the effects 330 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:44.000 in the mission space. By the way, in the beginning 331 00:19:44.039 --> 00:19:48.200 of its development, we had so many PhDs working on 332 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:52.599 the MOP program doing modeling and simulation that we were 333 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:56.960 quietly and in a secret way, the biggest users of 334 00:19:57.559 --> 00:20:02.559 supercomputer hours within the United United States of America. 335 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:06.079 N I don't want to hear from what's his name 336 00:20:06.119 --> 00:20:11.559 from the shark tank, so we'll skip that and get 337 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:15.039 to skip and here we go. 338 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:18.039 So let me talk about Let me talk about the 339 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:21.279 graphic a little bit. In the GBU fifty seven, which 340 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:24.359 all of you I know know, is a thirty thousand 341 00:20:24.359 --> 00:20:27.519 pound weapon dropped only by the B two. 342 00:20:28.119 --> 00:20:29.279 It's comprised of. 343 00:20:29.240 --> 00:20:36.720 Steel, explosive and a fuse programmed bespokely each weapon to 344 00:20:36.839 --> 00:20:41.599 achieve a particular effect inside the target. Each weapon had 345 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:47.319 a unique desired impact, angle, arrival, final heading. In a 346 00:20:47.319 --> 00:20:50.400 fuse setting, the fuse is effectively what tells the. 347 00:20:50.359 --> 00:20:52.200 Bomb when to function. 348 00:20:52.759 --> 00:20:56.599 A longer delay in a fuse, the deeper the weapon 349 00:20:56.720 --> 00:20:59.400 will penetrate and drive into the target. 350 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:01.759 So on four. 351 00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:04.799 Doh in June of two thousand and eight, you can 352 00:21:04.839 --> 00:21:09.960 see these three holes depicted Here is the main exhaust shaft, 353 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:14.559 with two additional ventilation shafts on either side. The United 354 00:21:14.559 --> 00:21:18.519 States decided to strike these two ventilation shafts seen here 355 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:21.880 on the main graphic as the primary point of entry 356 00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:23.920 into the mission space. 357 00:21:24.559 --> 00:21:26.880 In the days preceding. 358 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:30.119 The attack against Fourdeaux, the Iranians attempted to cover the 359 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:34.880 shafts with concrete to try to prevent an attack. 360 00:21:35.480 --> 00:21:37.759 I won't share the specific. 361 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:40.920 Dimensions of the concrete cap, but you should know that 362 00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:44.720 we know what the dimensions of those concrete caps were. 363 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:49.400 The planners had to account for this. They accounted for everything. 364 00:21:50.039 --> 00:21:54.839 The cap was forcibly removed by the first weapon and 365 00:21:54.880 --> 00:22:01.640 the main shaft was uncovered. Weapons two, three, four, five 366 00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:06.160 were tasked to enter the main shaft, move down into 367 00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:09.759 the complex at greater than one thousand feet per second, 368 00:22:10.119 --> 00:22:14.640 and explode in the mission space. Weapon number six was 369 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:18.079 designed on each side, so there were six on each side. 370 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:22.359 Weapons number six was designed as a flex weapon to 371 00:22:22.519 --> 00:22:25.559 allow us to cover if one of the preceding jets 372 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:30.839 or one of the preceding weapons did not work. The 373 00:22:30.960 --> 00:22:34.079 video I'm about to show you is a culmination of 374 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:37.240 over fifteen years of development and testing. As I said, 375 00:22:37.359 --> 00:22:40.640 hundreds of test shots on various models. 376 00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:43.359 This is one weapon. 377 00:22:43.920 --> 00:22:47.839 So if you take a view of this is five additionals, 378 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:52.160 you'll get a sense of what this looks like. Hopefully 379 00:22:52.160 --> 00:22:54.559 you can see it and there's not too much reflection. 380 00:22:55.880 --> 00:22:57.920 Tom runs our videos out there. 381 00:22:57.960 --> 00:22:58.599 We'll run it. 382 00:22:59.039 --> 00:23:01.079 At full speeds so you can see it and then 383 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:01.960 go back through it. 384 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:12.279 Go ahead, Tom, and it shows the bomb going into 385 00:23:12.319 --> 00:23:24.160 a ventilation, shows the penetration of the bomb as it penetrates, 386 00:23:24.319 --> 00:23:24.839 it waits. 387 00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:28.240 This is the part where you can go to Michael says, 388 00:23:28.240 --> 00:23:31.599 go here dot com Yeah, and then it explodes after 389 00:23:31.640 --> 00:23:33.559 it's gone down into the ventilation shaft. 390 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:34.799 Keep it going for a minute. 391 00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:37.680 You'll see the inside the mission space. 392 00:23:40.640 --> 00:23:43.599 So this will be the sixth or seventh bomb. Then 393 00:23:43.640 --> 00:23:45.799 it explodes inside the space. 394 00:23:46.960 --> 00:23:50.519 Unlike a normal surface bomb, you won't see an impact 395 00:23:50.599 --> 00:23:54.400 creator because they're designed to deeply bury and then function. 396 00:23:54.519 --> 00:23:56.640 I know there's been a lot of questions about that. 397 00:23:57.319 --> 00:24:02.680 All six weapons at each vent at four doh went 398 00:24:02.839 --> 00:24:06.079 exactly where they were intended to go. A bomb has 399 00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:13.039 three effects that causes damage, blast, fragmentation, and overpressure. In 400 00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:16.480 this case, the primary kill mechanism in the mission space 401 00:24:16.599 --> 00:24:20.200