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Last night, U.S. B-2 stealth bombers, armed with 2,000 lb. bombs, struck Iran’s hardened ballistic missile facilities. No nation should ever doubt America's resolve.

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On June 21, 2025, seven B-2 Spirit stealth bombers departed Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, flew east across the Atlantic, and dropped twelve 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators on Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities at Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz. That operation was called Midnight Hammer. It lasted 36 hours. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs quoted a trailing pilot as saying it was “the brightest explosion I’ve ever seen.” Each bomb weighed fifteen tons. It was the first time the GBU-57, the largest conventional weapon in the American arsenal, had been used in combat. Eight months later, the B-2s went back. CENTCOM confirmed on March 1 that B-2 stealth bombers armed with 2,000-pound bombs struck Iran’s “hardened ballistic missile facilities” during overnight operations as part of Operation Epic Fury. Fox News reported, citing a US defense official, that four B-2s dropped “dozens of 2,000 lb bombs on underground ballistic missile sites in Iran.” Open-source flight analysts tracked four aircraft under the callsign PETRO41 passing over the Strait of Gibraltar on the return leg, the same routing used during Midnight Hammer. The bombers refueled over the central Atlantic from KC-46 tankers staged at Lajes Air Base in the Azores. On return, they diverted to Dyess Air Force Base in Texas due to weather at Whiteman. Planet satellite imagery from March 1 confirmed the damage: collapsed tunnel entrances at Tabriz North Missile Base, compared against February 23 baseline images published by Newsweek. The weapon choice is the story nobody is telling. Midnight Hammer used 30,000-pound bunker busters because the target was a mountain. Fordow is an enrichment facility buried deep inside solid rock. You need the heaviest bomb ever built to reach it. Operation Epic Fury used 2,000-pound GBU-31 JDAMs with BLU-109 penetrating warheads because the targets are structurally different. Iran’s ballistic missile facilities are not single deep bunkers. They are what defense analysts call “missile cities,” networks of interconnected tunnels carved into mountainsides, with dozens of entrance points, storage chambers, and in some cases, launch fissures in the rock ceilings through which missiles can be fired from inside the mountain itself. You do not kill a missile city with one enormous bomb. You collapse it entrance by entrance. Dozens of 2,000-pound precision strikes across multiple tunnel openings. That is what “dozens of bombs” means. That is what the satellite imagery at Tabriz confirms: not a single crater but a systematic closure of the tunnel network. The mission duration also tells a story. The War Zone reported that the B-2s flew from CONUS because the UK denied access to RAF Fairford and Diego Garcia, the two forward bases equipped for sustained bomber operations. That forced 36-plus-hour round trips from Missouri. Starmer reversed that decision on March 1, granting base access. Future B-2 sorties can now stage from Fairford, cutting transit time dramatically. The four-week war just became an accelerating air campaign. Two B-2 missions against Iran in eight months. The first destroyed the nuclear program with the largest bombs ever dropped. The second is methodically collapsing every mountain that houses the missiles built to avenge the first. The bomber that ended the nuclear threat is now ending the retaliatory capability. Same aircraft. Same air base. Different target architecture. Same result: the mountains of Iran are being opened from the outside.

Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡

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