• 1dalm@lemmings.world
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    The drones would not likely need to take out the whole facility. If the drones were particularly targeted, which they almost certainly were, then I can imagine they could take out a particular critical piece of infrastructure that could cause significant disruption.

    But yeah, 20% is a lot for sure.

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      I don’t think they need to be particularly targeted, any part of the processing facility that is damaged is going to stop production until fixed.

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        Well, there can be some redundancy, and some parts are harder to replace than others. Just going off of of what I know, I’d target a big pipe or the heating/cooling systems. A distillation tower or chemical reactor could be redirected around.

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        They have to be targeted. They wouldn’t shut the whole facility down if the bomb landed in the remote employee parking lot.

        But I don’t see that it’s likely that Iran wouldn’t target their strikes. They clearly have the capability. Hit the targets that maximize disruption.