How the US says it hit Iran’s nuclear sites

According to Four-star General Dan Caine, who is the president of the US army’s highest level of joint staff, a continuous flight, more than one air fuel supply, and a series of traps-Iran’s nuclear facilities bombing the nuclear facilities was played in this way.

Although the full influence of what the US calls ‘operation Midnight Hammer’ is still unclear, a timeline of how the complex task emerged was revealed on Sunday morning, only hours after strikes.

US Defense Minister Pete Hegset told journalists, American bombing planes “in and out and back” without knowing the world. “

Everything immediately after midnight, Secretary Hegseth’s US President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, and the Seçkin Pentagon staff in the White House, a plane fleet to leave an American air base in rural Missouri.

According to the Pentagon, under the cover of Darkness B-2 Stealth Bombers 00:01 EDT (05:01 BST) came out of the WhiteMan Air Force Base.

Final objectives: Iran’s safest nuclear places.

Silent jets, just below the speed of sound, flew over the Atlantic ocean full of strong “Bunker Buster” bombs, which can penetrate concrete at a depth of 18 (60FT).

This is a weapon of Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility in Fordo, which is considered to be the central network of a mountain and is considered the country’s nuclear program. The US is the only country in the world known to have such a weapon.

But the world has not yet watched. Following the reports that the bombers were sent to the US Island region, all eyes were looking at the west, the Pacific Ocean.

“Distribution, the US will not officially be connected to the US debate in Israel’s Iranian war, but very few will doubt the connection.”

But this is just a trick – according to the account given by the Pentagon – a trap to get away from the very hidden flights moving towards Iran.

Gen Caine, the planes flying to the west on the Pacific, “it was only a deception at an effort to deceive by a small number of planners and key leaders.”

“The main strike package, consisting of seven B-2 Spirit Bombarding, each of which is two crew members, has quietly progressed to the east with minimum communication.”

These military aircraft do not appear on flight monitoring websites, which makes it difficult for the BBC to independently confirm the description of the Pentagon.

And even though satellite images help to show the degree of damage on the sites overnight, they cannot tell us exactly when they were hit.

The Fleet was combined with the Middle East, 17:00 EDT (22:00 BST), in Gen Caine, called the “complex, strictly timed maneuver”, called enemy fighters and support planes to protect the bombing planes by searching for missile threats to the surface and surface.

However, according to US officials, the Iranian fighter aircraft did not get up and no air defense shot.

“Iranian dominance against the Iranian airspace, the Patrycja Bazylczyk, the Missile Defense Specialist at the Washington DC Center for Strategic and International Research, prepared the pump for the impunity of American bombardment planes.” He said.

The next hour was defined by Gen Caine at a level of detail that was not normally exported to the public during the Pentagon Briefing.

Although the briefing provides schedules for certain events, the map showing the journey of the bombing aircraft was not a specific flight path and showed a little difference in two versions.

The Trump administration declared subsequent events as a total victory, claiming that the United States “destroyed Iran’s nuclear regime. However, the damage has not been measured yet.

Although Iran approved the attacks, it minimized the scope of the damage and did not provide a certain explanation of the series of events.

Around 17:00 EDT (22:00 BST) US officials say that more than two dozens of Tomahawk land attack attacks have been launched towards the nuclear region near Isfahan, a city of a US submarine placed in the Arabian Sea.

Dr. Stacie Pettyjohn said, although the nuclear facility was hundreds of kilometers in the interior, with the submarines, cruise missiles, hidden B-2s to reduce their “shelter buster” bombs to the other two nuclear areas, Dr Dr Stacie Pettyjohn is a defense expert in the new American security center.

Everything meant that the US could “provide a coordinated surprise attack on multiple sites”.

Meanwhile, the fleet of the bombers entered the Iranian airspace, where the US used several deception tactics, including more traps, according to the Pentagon.

Then the air strikes began.

Lead bombardment plane, Fordo in the first of the first targets in Iran in the morning immediately after 02:00 in Fordo in the first of a few goals known as MOPS two GBU -57 Massive penetrator weapons dropped.

According to experts, the mop bomb may drop from approximately 18m (60FT) concrete or 61m (200FT) soil before explosion. This means that although it is not a guaranteed success, it is the only bomb that can approach to affect the depth of the tunnels in the Fordo facility, which is thought to be 80-90m (262-295ft) under the surface in the world.

For the first time, the “Bunker Buster” bombs fell into a real war operation.

According to Pentgaon, the remaining bombardment aircraft hit their targets – a total of 14 mops and a second nuclear facility in Natanz fell to Fordo. And in Isfahan nuclear region, Tomahawk missilers hit their targets more than 200 km away from Fordo.

According to the Pentagon, after the planes spend 18 hours in the air, all targets were shot in about 25 minutes before leaving Iran at 19:30 (00:30 BST) to return to the USA.

In total, approximately 75 precision guided weapons and more than 125 US aircraft were used, and secretary Hegseth claimed that the task was “strong and open” destruction of Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

However, it will take time to evaluate the full scope of strikes – there is more images to see how deep underground bombs can penetrate into important nuclear areas.

“This was an incredibly complex and very sophisticated attack that any other country in the world could not realize.” He said.

He continued: “Despite the tactical success of the operation, Iran’s nuclear program permanently reached the goal of reaching the purpose of reaching.”