In the largest single deployment of #stealth #bombers in U.S. history,
the Pentagon has sent six B-2 “Spirit” aircraft to #Diego #Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
The long-range bombers, which are uniquely suited to evade Iranian air defenses and can carry America’s most potent bunker busting weapons,
flew in from Missouri last week in a little noticed operation.
The B-2s carry not just bombs, but a message for #Iran:
“do you see our sword?,” as one retired general told Newsmax this week
Trump hasn’t been shy in threatening Iran,
saying that if Tehran doesn’t close the door on a nuclear capability
they will experience
“bombing the likes of which they haven’t seen.”
“Hell” will “rain down” on the country,
Trump has also said.
Just today,
amidst the stock market meltdown
Trump again reiterated his threat,
saying that
“doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious”
— which to the president is undertaking a massive strike.
Blatant as the threat is,
the U.S. government has not otherwise publicly acknowledged the bomber buildup.
Though B-2 bombers were used to carry out strikes on underground Houthi facilities in Yemen
(both under the Biden and Trump administration),
the forward deployment of the bombers to the island of Diego Garcia was only reported when
commercial satellite images of the airbase there revealed the six B-2's on the runway.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/pentagon-prepares-for-trump-to-go
