A B-2 Spirit prepares to be refueled by a KC-135R Stratotanker during a nighttime aerial refueling mission over Southern Kansas, Oct. 21, 2015. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Benjamin Mota)
The United States is deploying B-2 Spirit stealth strategic bombers to the Pacific island of Guam, Reuters reported on June 21, citing two U.S. officials.
One of the officials told the news agency no forward orders had been given yet to move the bombers beyond the military base on Guam.
The officials who spoke to Reuters didn’t say how many bombers were being moved. However, aviation observers said that at least six took off from Whiteman Air Force Base in the state of Missouri. The number was later confirmed by Fox News, which also cited U.S. officials.
The deployment came amid rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran, as President Trump is reported to be considering joining an attack launched by Israel earlier in the month to cripple the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
The B-2, which features low-observable stealth technology, was especially designed to penetrate dense air defense networks. The bomber can also deploy the BU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, a 14-ton precision-guided bunker buster bomb that can penetrate over 60 meters of fortifications.
Due to these capabilities, the B-2 is considered essential to any U.S. attack on Iran’s underground nuclear facilities, like the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant.
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While the U.S. could move the B-2s forward to a U.S.-British military base on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia before an attack on Iran, this may not be all that necessary. The bombers could fly directly from Guam and attack Fordow with full payload then return to Diego Garcia with the help of aerial tankers.
It’s worth noting that the U.S. had some six B-2s deployed at Diego Garcia last month. This was seen as a measure to pressure Iran at the time. However, it may have been an exercise.
Trump has already given Iran a two-week ultimation to “unconditionally surrender.” Yet, with the Israeli attack stalling and recent reports indicating that Tehran rejected direct talks with Washington, the U.S. could move on with military plans much faster.
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glorious mic bondoogle.
iran is fucked!
lgbt americunt sodomized by taliban
message to iran, russia and china… “kill it before it grows”… bob marley lyrics from i shot the sheriff
you know that the cancer, at the end, kills itself, even if it kills its host at the same time ?
maybe that’s what will happen for all the ignorance and indifference that got it to this place? usury un-compromised and unchecked to it’s inevitable end is one hell of an ugly malignant cancerous “bitch”!…
yes, fight the nuclear war now. almost as logical as your assertion that russia, china, etc. could have forced an investigation into 9/11. you derp hard. and that’s something.
i hear india will be joining f-u.k.u.s. to defeat the usual suspects + #4 on the team pakistan that have a working belt and road initiative which will destroy what is left of the western banking cartels in their midst completely… oh wait a minute “india”?… lmfao!
…excuse me. almost forgot #5 on the team north korea!….
your local pharmacy ran out of lithium?
does that offend you my little “brown friend”?… pakistan would more then likely be india’s pal if it weren’t for the f-u.k.u.$. in the 20th century. the bad news is that western influence really fucked up what should otherwise be a peaceful and profitable economic union between the two. the good news is they both have nukes!
people have zero sympathy or empathy for jooz under the hail of missiles. the reaction is generally one of glee – they are getting what’s coming to them. for 2 years, they celebrated the gaza genocide, the torture, the starvation, the rape, the massacres of medical personnel, the shooting of small children for sport. the casual mass murder, the wanton destruction of schools, hospitals and private homes. it was all hilarious, they couldn’t get enough of it. they held picnics
watching the massacres. they took their children to slash open sacks of food on aid lorries so that starving people would get nothing to eat. they smashed up medical supplies as children were having limbs amputated without anaesthetic. how can you feel any sympathy for people like that? you can’t. you just enjoy watching their suffering as they enjoyed watching others suffer. they richly deserve whatever happens to them. however bad it gets, it’s not enough.
this war is going to bring revolution not civil war in bankrupt america and the end of its hegemony. world have to waite until end of demonic entity and the rise of colons.
inferior americunt paper tiger cowards only bomb civilians–they will never send their obese feminized soldiers to iran
“done” trump confirms strikes on iran’s nuclear sites: fordow, natanz, and esfahan “successfully targeted”!!! i hear a loud siren that sounds like a trumpet