Posted on 06/23/2025 6:03:35 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — It was an unprecedented attack years in the making, with some last-minute misdirection meant to give the operation a powerful element of surprise.
U.S. pilots dropped powerful bombs early Sunday on two key underground uranium enrichment plants in Iran, delivering what American military leaders believe is a knockout blow to a nuclear program that Israel views as an existential threat. American sailors bolstered the surprise mission by firing dozens of cruise missiles from a submarine toward at least one other site.
Dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer, U.S. officials say the plan was characterized by a "precision strike" that "devastated the Iranian nuclear program," even as they acknowledged an assessment was ongoing. Iran denied there was significant damage.
Taking off from the U.S. heartland, B-2 stealth bombers delivered a total of 420,000 pounds of explosives, aided by an armada of refueling tankers and fighter jets — some of which launched their own weapons. U.S. officials said Iran neither detected the inbound fusillade, nor mustered a shot at the stealthy American jets.
The operation relied on a series of deceptive tactics and decoys to maintain the secrecy, U.S. officials said hours after the attack, which was preceded by nine days of Israeli attacks that debilitated Iran's military leadership and air defenses.
A decoy plan
Elements of misdirection were in play before the planes took off. After setting parts of the plan in motion, Trump publicly announced Thursday that he'd make a decision within two weeks on whether to strike Iran — ostensibly to allow additional time for negotiations, but in actuality masking the impending attack.
(Excerpt) Read more at channel3000.com ...
Have the DemonRAT Señators and Reps left for Iran to console the ayatollahs yet?
is it just me... or does telling exactly how we did something secretly seem to undermine us going forward?
Not telling Dem politicians is how they avoided detection.
“The U.S. bombs fell for about half an hour...”
Somebody help me. At what altitude were the aircraft when the bombs were released?
Well done, Mr President.
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John Kerry is surely at the head of that parade.
They have to have meant from first bomb fall to last bomb fall. 🙄
We dropped bombs for a half hour, it didn’t take the bombs a half hour to fall to the ground from 50,000,feet.
Allah be praised.
Lol
Not telling Dem politicians is how they avoided detection.
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exactly.
“Not telling Dem politicians is how they avoided detection.”
And that includes the republican politicians
“Not telling Dem politicians is how they avoided detection.”
exactly ...
same article without paywall:
Yes the democrats want to disrupt what they can’t control.
There were no photos of the damage done by the bombs. The photos are from Israel.
actually AP article wasn’t identical, but here’s The chan3000 article without paywall:
No two ‘battles’ are ever alike. Plenty of ways to outsmart an enemy. ;)
Why would they do that?
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