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Those bunkers are already defended. Think of them less as a schizo bug-out bunker and more of the castles of the new feudalism.

Their purpose is solely to protect the land/the lord from people with ideas such as yours following the collapse of the empire.

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Even castles have been stormed.

By large armies of trained soldiers who invariably suffered disproportionate casualties. Fortifications are very effective for this specific application.

Dozers would be very easy to armor up and teleoperate. Send 10 just for good measure.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Salt the land and wait for the rations to run out.

The billionaire with a doomsday bunker probably has enough rations to outlast you. It's best not to wait until the doomsday bunker stage to do something about the situation.

That's true. However, the smarter(esque) billionaires built their doomsday prepper bunkers in NZ, AU, Hawaii, and probably elsewhere secret and far away from most civilization they want to avoid.

Breathing is nice.

best bring out the bunker busters then

You have a lot of those in the back of the garage, do you?

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