According to the Chief of Staff of the American Armed Forces, General Dan Caine, the operation took place ‘with very few people in Washington aware of the details of the plan’
Operation Midnight Hammer, Midnight Hammer’s translation, was the name given to the operation of the United States that destroyed three nuclear facilities of the Iran – Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz. The attack involved a strategy that combined the use of submarines, accurate air attack, diversionist maneuvers and a lot of confidentiality. According to the Chief of Staff of the American Armed Forces, General Dan Caine, the operation occurred “with very few people in Washington aware of the details of the plan,” he also added that the attack caused extremely serious damage and destruction the three facilities. The bombing came after President Donald Trump dedicated weeks seeking a diplomatic way to replace the nuclear agreement with Tehran that he broke during his first term in 2018. However, Trump finally decided to take military actions against the Iranian nuclear program, adding to attacks started a week ago by his alien Israel, who also included high Iranian army commanders.
The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, told the press that the attacks were launched to “neutralize threats to national (United States) interests that the Iranian nuclear program represents and for the collective self -defense of our troops and our allies.” “This mission was not intended to change a regime in Iran, told journalists. Several key figures of the conservative “Maga” movement openly opposed these attacks. Trump’s promise to remove the United States from “eternal wars” in the Middle East was one of the central points of his 2016 and 2024 election campaign.
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Operation Beginning
At a press conference held on Sunday (22), Caine detailed how was the attack on Iran’s facilities and reported that more than 125 American aircraft participated, including B-2 Spirit stealing bombers, fighters, air replenishing aircraft, a submarine with guided missiles and intelligence aircraft, surveillance and recognition. “This mission demonstrates the unique reach, coordination and capacity of the United States Army,” said Caine. “No other army in the world could have achieved this. The Iranian attack operation began at dawn on Friday, 21, to Saturday, 22, when the B-2 bombard planes took off from the Whiteman base in the state of Missouri.
B-2 Attack
B-2 bombers were escorted by fighters and featured aerial replenishment made by several tann planes positioned on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. The United States employed seven B-2, aircraft capable of flying 6,000 nautical miles (9,600 kilometers) without refueling, designed to “penetrate the enemy’s most sophisticated defenses and threaten their most valuable and strongly defended targets,” according to the US Army. “This was the largest operational attack with B-2 in US history and the second longest B-2 mission ever,” Caine said.
Several B-2 went west on the Pacific as a distraction, while bombers who would participate in the attacks went to east, an “mistake of mistake known only by an extremely small number of planners and key leaders,” said the general. “Iranian fighters did not take off and it seems that their earth-air missile systems did not detect us. Throughout the mission, we kept the surprise factor,” he said.
What is B-2?
B-2 is one of the most advanced strategic weaponry platforms in the United States, capable of penetrating sophisticated air defenses and performing accuracy attacks against fortified targets such as the underground network of Iran’s nuclear facilities. Before B-2 bombings, an American submarine in the Middle East fired more than two dozen Tomahawk Missis. Infrastructure. The United States had already resorted to the B-2 in operations against the Serbian forces in the 1990s, with flights without scales from Missouri to Kosovo and vice versa. In the first decade of this century, they were used in the wars of Afghanistan and Iraq.
GBU-57 Anti-Bunker Pumps Launch
Caine explained that the B-2 launched 14 pumps known as GBU-57 or massive artillery penetrator, a powerful 13,600 kilograms anti-bunker pump that debuted in combat in the operation against Iran. Projected to penetrate up to 60 meters below Earth before exploding, these pumps were needed to reach the Iranian nuclear facilities in great depth. The tests of this weapon began in 2004 and in 2009 Boeing obtained a contract to complete the integration of GBU-57 with aircraft.
Submarine attack
In addition to the bombers, an American submarine has launched several Tomahawk cruise missiles against unparmed surface infrastructure targets in Isfahan, one of three nuclear plants attacked in the operation, Caine said. These are missiles projected “to fly extremely low altitudes and high subsonic speeds, piloted on an evasive route by various mission-adapted orientation systems.” They were first used in 1991 against Iraqi forces during the desert storm operation, the US Army said.
*With information from Estadão Content and AFP
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