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The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed on November 3 that B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers have arrived in the Middle East.
The deployment of the bombers was announced by the Department of Defense a day earlier. In addition to the bombers, the Pentagon also said that it was sending ballistic missile defense destroyers, fighter squadrons, and tanker aircraft to the region to to reaffirm Washington’s commitments to “the protection of U.S. citizens and forces in the Middle East, the defense of Israel, and de-escalation through deterrence and diplomacy.”
In a post to the X social network, CENTCOM said that B-52 bombers from Minot Air Force Base’s 5th Bomb Wing arrived in its area of responsibility, without elaborating.
Aviation observers reported that at least two such bombers landed at the strategic Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar late on November 2.
The B-52 is a long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber. It can carry up to 32 tons of weapons and has a typical combat range of around 14,200 kilometers without aerial refueling.
The deployment came amid heightened tensions with Iran which is reportedly preparing to respond to the October 26 Israeli attack on its territory.
Several Iranian military targets, including air defenses and missile sites, were hit during the attack, which also claimed the lives of four officers. The attack was in itself a response to a large-scale ballistic missile strike launched by Tehran against Israel on October 1.
The U.S. showed support to Israel ahead of the attack by reinforcing its air defenses with a THAAD ballistic missile defense system. Tehran accused Washington of facilitating the attack.
The deployment of the B-52s appears to be a clear threat from the U.S. to Iran. Israel has for long been thought to need the heavy firepower of U.S. strategic bombers in any strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, which were not targeted during the last attack.
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lol. you see it’s not about politicians at all, the administration in washington, the congress and the presidential election don’t matter. it is a deep state and big fat jeeeews who pull the strings. now what about decapitation strike on chamenei with 2 tons bunkerbuster bombs?. or maybe carpet bombing ww2 style ? so many options are there available. do people of iran really love their stupid leaders and shiite version of allah so much to get bombed “gaza” edition ?
buffs will be sitting ducks as soon as they are airborne. the israeli sead operation failed ‘bigly’ last time, and iran didn’t even fire a single sam, it was all done with radar-controlled 35mm cannon shooting shells packed with tungsten flechettes. a single s400 battery would take down the whole squadron at one go.
it’s the same thing all the time, one half of muslims are threatening israel with war and the other half of muslims can’t wait to help israel crush their rivals. this time, iran will be defeated so hard that gaza will look like paradise compared to iran. they can’t operate air defence, they have no air force, they rely on russia, but russia is very soft on israel and won’t help iran once israel is at stake. and qatar is a notorious traitor
actually, i don’t mind that muslims are so stupid. i only have the problem that we have 50 million muslim illegals, rapists, thieves and murderers in europe. and with the looming disaster in iran, the number of towelheads may double in a matter of no time. and don’t be fooled. the silent european majority is angry and will not remain silent for much longer. sweden, france, italy are just good enough to explode in anger against the lazy and unusable muslim invaders.
thats why the governments have brought in those war trained “towelheads” you mentioned. they will arm them to fight those “no longer silent” europeans so both will be busy and the government stay unharmed.
your problem is the lack of a job, it’s time to get out of your grandmother’s attic and get a job
believe it when i see it. since nothing you say comes true, or ever was true, i’ll go check on the popcorn and wait for the us to implode from the gravitational void left by harbouring retards with negative iqs
usa days in the middle east are coming to the end of days.
time to flatten tehran…heheheh
isn’t it wonderful. so full of their self importance, and superiority they don’t realise they are creating a turkey shoot of american military assets! they just don’t realise how loathed americans and all they stand for in the eyes of the world! christ, they must realise, they aren’t scared what americans can do, they’ve experienced for years the americans brutality!
yankees will be carbonised sone. the resistence must coordinate the attack against the zio parasites in palestine. from gaza, libanon, syria, irac. the ad will be totaly disturbed and then comes in the balistick big ones from iran.
the truth is the legitimate middle east human defence system should be destroy to give britain,france,usa and israel white mix jews to keep on colonising arabs and muslims aand stel oil&gas
you are right that khazars are mixed white folks (mongol, slavic, turk dna). today khazars use new name “jews”
iran better get some missiles capable of reaching some 15000 meter which is the max operational altitude of the b52! landed in qatar so if they are to be used question is from where will they start or maybe qatar never bothered to make their airspace exclusive soon not to be used in attacks on iran. maybe iran should start by taking out qatars part of the gas field being the basis for qatars affluence!
kinda pathetic sending antiquated b52s which are sitting ducks in the sky. easy to shoot down.
will those bombers, ballistic missile defense destroyers, fighter squadrons, and tanker aircraft just be easy targets in today’s high tech warfare?
nothing will happen between iran and israel this year, so nothing to see here. usa will support israel no matter what, the advanced outpost of the empire of exceptionals and the fake light religion will survive at least twenty more years, but i don’t think israel will make it in the long run. the exceptionals are so exceptionals even when they lost they win, and when they cry they laugh, they are very very exceptionals so their daughter named ‘israel’.
those b-52s will be killed when they start their mission, never see it coming.