US strikes in Iran: details of an extraordinary military mission
Codenamed "Midnight Hammer," the American operation targeting three Iranian nuclear sites required extensive military coordination. More than a hundred aircraft were deployed to carry out this major mission.
The Americans named it Operation Midnight Hammer . This is how the United States dropped fourteen bunker-busting bombs on Iran. Fearsome weapons, used for the first time in real conditions. Early Saturday morning, B2 stealth bombers took off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. Some of them headed toward the Pacific Ocean. They were decoys. Seven other bombers headed toward Iran.
To complete the 18-hour flight while evading radar, several tanker aircraft were positioned along the route. The squadron flew over the Mediterranean, but not Europe. On board were GBU-57 bombs, 13-ton devices nicknamed "the bombs that pierce mountains." They were capable of penetrating deep into rock and concrete before exploding. It was midnight in France when the bombers entered Iranian airspace, preceded by fighter jets as scouts. The B2s dropped their bombs on the Fordo and Natanz sites. About twenty Tomahawk missiles, previously launched by a submarine in the Indian Ocean, reached the Isfahan site. In all, 125 aircraft were involved in this American raid.
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