On Saturday, “Operation Midnight” involving about 125 U.S. aircraft including seven B-2 stealth bombers each carrying two 30,000 pound “bunker buster bombs” along with about 30 submarine-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles eradicated Iran’s near-term ability to execute repeated “Death to America, Death to Israel” threats issued throughout the 35-year reign of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The overall mission was remarkably ambitious in complexity, effective in strategic deception, and successful in execution, with no American casualties and none currently known for Iran at the time of this writing.
Shortly after midnight Eastern time, a total 13 B-2 stealth bombers took off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, of which six were sent to the Pacific Island of Guam as decoys, while seven proceeded east to Iran with fighter jets scouting the airspace ahead of them for possible enemy aircraft and surface-to-air missiles.
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