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Decoy Stealth Bombers and Tomahawk Missiles: How the US Hit Iran

Air Force General Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, details the US operation against Iran dubbed “Midnight Hammer.” He says it involved B-2 stealth bombers, submarines, precision-guided weapons and so-called bunker-buster bombs. He speaks at the Pentagon.Source: Bloomberg

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.