Iran's missile systems 'did not see us': Pentagon says nuclear capabilities destroyed at Fordow
Largest-ever USAF B-2 bomber mission involved multiple feints — Iran’s air defenses did not fire a shot, top Pentagon general says.
WASHINGTON — In the span of less than half an hour, seven stealth USAF B-2 bombers dropped 240 tons of conventional bunker-busting bombs on two of Iran’s most important nuclear enrichment facilities, Natanz and Fordow.
At a third site in Isfahan — where inspectors said as recently as this month that Iran has stored highly enriched uranium — 24 Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from a nuclear-powered submarine operating off the Iranian coast destroyed surface facilities, Pentagon officials said Sunday.
Operation Midnight Hammer, overseen by US Central Command (CENTCOM) chief Gen. Michael “Erik” Kurilla, was executed “flawlessly,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters on Sunday.
The B-2 bombers and their fourth- and fifth-generation fighter escorts penetrated Iranian airspace, dropped their 30,000-pound GBU-57 bombs and then departed without Iranian air defenses ever firing a shot, the Pentagon’s top general said following the operation.
