How the US says it hit Iran’s nuclear sites

On a 18-hour journey in each direction, fuel in the air, and a series of traps-this is the way the bombing task of Iran’s nuclear facilities played, according to General Dan Caen, head of the joint staff team, the highest American army officer.

Although the full impact of what the United States calls is still unclear, the timetable for how the complex task was placed in the Pentagon briefing on Sunday morning, just hours after the strikes.

US Defense Secretary, Beit Higseth, told reporters:

Everything began immediately after midnight when Minister Higseth joined US President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and the Pentagon elite employees in the White House room to see a fleet of aircraft, left an American air base in Missouri rural state.

Under the Cover of Darkness, B-2 Stealth Bombers took off from the Whiteman Air Force base on 00:01 EST (05:01 BST), according to the Pentagon.

Their final goal: the safest nuclear sites in Iran.

Under sound aircraft, which are transmitted to no speedy sound, flew over the powerful Atlantic “Bunker Buster” bombs It is able to penetrate the concrete over 18 meters (60 feet).

It is the type of weapons needed to strike the Iranian nuclear enrichment facility in Fordo, which was buried under a deep underground mountain and is the center of the country’s nuclear program. The United States is the only country in the world known for possessing this type of weapon.

But the world was not watching – yet. All eyes were facing the West, towards the Pacific Ocean, After the reports, the detonators were sent to the lands of the American island in Guam.

The British Broadcasting Corporation wrote at the time: “While publishing is not officially related to discussions about the United States joining Israel’s war on Iran, a few of them will question the link,” the British Broadcasting Corporation wrote at the time.

But it was just a trick – according to the Pentagon’s account – a trap that distracts attention from the higher secret trips to Iran over the Atlantic Ocean.

General Kane said that the aircraft that flew west over the Pacific Ocean was “a known deception of only a very small number of planners and leaders.”

He added: “The main strike package consisting of seven B-2 bombers, each with two crew members, quietly moved to the east with the least contact.”

These military aircraft do not appear on flight tracking sites, making it difficult for the BBC independently to verify the Pentagon’s description of events.

And in spite of Satellite images can help show the extent of damage At overnight, they cannot tell us about the specified times in which they were injured.

When the fleet arrived in the Middle East, at one time at approximately 17:00 EST (22:00 GMT), he joined a support plane that helped protect the launchers by sweeping them to search for enemy fighters and surface missile threats to the air, while General Caen called a complex city.

But the Iranian fighter planes did not take off and did not seem to have any air defenses launched a shot, according to American officials.

“Israeli hegemony over the Iranian airspace is to prepare the American bombers pump to work without punishment,” Patikja Bazilsk, an expert in missile defense at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, told BBC.

The Gen Cain was described in the forty -year and the Pentagon surrounded at a level of details that were not usually disclosed to the public.

Although the briefing provided a timing of some events, the map that shows the launchers’ journey was not a specific path to flying and differed slightly in two copies.

The Trump administration has announced subsequent events as a complete victory, claiming that the United States “obliterating” the Iranian nuclear regime. But the true range of damage, and its effects, has not yet been measured.

While Iran confirmed the attacks, it reduced the extent of damage and did not provide a specific account for the sequence of events.

At approximately 17:00 EST (22:00 GMT), US officials said more than twenty Tomahawk’s land attacks were launched from an American submarine stationed in the Arab Sea towards the nuclear site near ISFAHAN, a city of about two million people.

Although the nuclear facility there is hundreds of internal kilometers, the submarines were close enough to enable marine flight missiles to influence almost at the same time as Dr. Statsi Bayan, the defense expert at the center at the new American Security Center.

She told BBC to BBC to BBC.

Meanwhile, the bombers fleet entered the Iranian airspace, as the United States used many other methods of deception, including more traps, according to the Pentagon.

Then the air strikes began.

The main bomber dropped two GBU -57 munitions weapons – known as MPS – in the first targets of several goals in Fordo at approximately 18:40 ES (23:40 GMT), after 02:00 in the morning in Iran.

The MP bomb is able to decrease through about 18 meters (60 feet) of concrete or 61 meters (200 feet) of the Earth before the explosion, according to the experts. This means that although there is no guaranteed success, it is the only bomb in the world that can come close to affecting the depth of tunnels in the Fordo-which is believed to range between 80 and 90 meters (262-295 feet) below the surface.

This was the first time that “Bunker Buster” bombs were dropped in a real combat operation.

The rest of the slanders set their targets – where a total of 14 Mobas was dropped on Fordo and a second nuclear facility in Natanz, according to the Pentagon. On the nuclear site ISFAHAN, more than 200 km from Fordo, Tomahawk missiles hit their targets.

After the planes spent 18 hours in the air, all targets were hit in only about 25 minutes before they left Iran at 19:30 US time (00:30 GMT) to return to the United States, according to the Pentagon.

In total, about 75 weapons were used for accuracy and more than 125 American aircraft, and Minister Higseth claimed that the mission had provided a “strong and clear” destruction of Iranian nuclear capabilities.

But the full scale of the strikes will take time to evaluate them – with more footage to see how deep the bombs that managed future bombs penetrated into the main nuclear sites.

“This was an incredibly complicated and very sophisticated attack that no other country in the world could perform,” said Dr. Betigon.

“Despite the success of the operation tactically, it is unclear whether it will achieve the goal of restricting Iran’s nuclear program permanently.”