Decoy Stealth Bombers and Tomahawk Missiles: How the US Hit Iran
Takeaways by Bloomberg AI
The heart of operation “Midnight Hammer” was a feint.
A group of American B-2 bombers — the only jets capable of deploying 30,000-pound bunker-buster munitions with a shot at breaching the mountains shrouding Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility — flew west across the Pacific Ocean. When those planes were spotted on flight-tracker data, they were seen as being deployed as a way to strong-arm the Islamic Republic into negotiations.