WASHINGTON D.C (VINnews) — The U.S. military may have employed a major deception tactic in its recent strikes on Iran, according to reporting from Fox News national security correspondent Lucas Tomlinson.
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Appearing on Special Report with Bret Baier, Tomlinson said that open-source trackers and aviation analysts were initially led to believe that a wave of B-2 stealth bombers had departed Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri and were headed westward over the Pacific Ocean earlier Friday, with scheduled refueling tracked over Hawaii and estimated arrival near Guam.
“But it appears this was all a diversion,” Tomlinson said, noting that another formation of B-2s had likely departed the base days earlier. According to Tomlinson, the base had been quietly closed at the time — a detail also reported by Fox’s chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin.
“So it appears there was a big deception,” Tomlinson added, “that bombers instead went east — a much shorter distance — to get to Iran to launch those strikes.”
The Pentagon has not officially confirmed the details of the reported deception or the timing of the strikes. However, military analysts say such disinformation efforts are consistent with longstanding U.S. strategy when conducting high-stakes operations involving stealth aircraft.
The B-2 Spirit is the only U.S. aircraft capable of delivering the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator — a 30,000-pound bunker-busting bomb designed for deeply buried targets, such as Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility.
May hashem bless you Mr president
Mr President is the real man in every aspect for sure
Iran, just like Iraq was during the Gulf war, are empty paper tigers. A bunch of Guerrilla warfare cavemen.
May have? LOL!!