B-2 Spirit bomber mid-air refueling.
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DECOY and deception and were at the heart of the US’s Operation Midnight Hammer against Iran’s nuclear sites.

Through meticulous planning and artful bluff, the stealth bomber squadron glided in and out of Iran without ever being detected or fired upon.

B-2 Spirit bomber mid-air refueling.
A B-2 spirit bomber refuelling mid-air – as the Operation Midnight Hammer planes didCredit: AFP
Donald Trump looking upward on the White House lawn.
Trump threw the world off the scent with a series of bluffsCredit: Getty
Satellite images of the Fordow underground complex in Iran before and after a U.S. strike.
Satellite pictures show the Fordow nuclear plant before and after the US strikes, on June 20 and June 22Credit: Reuters

From the outset of the conflict, the US embarked on a strategic campaign of deception, which ultimately led to the destruction of three critical Iranian nuclear facilities, including the heavily fortified Fordow site.

Trump’s public statements were curated to keep the regime and the rest of the world guessing about whether the US would collaborate in strikes.

During a flagpole opening event on Wednesday, the President continued this ambiguous approach, stating to reporters, “I might do it, I might not do it. No one knows what my plan is.”

The clever maneuver came on Thursday, as the White House introduced a “two-week” deadline for Trump to announce his decision, purportedly to offer Iran a further opportunity to re-enter negotiations.

This was widely interpreted as kicking the can down the road – and Trump has been known to announce a two-week deadline for events that never materialise.

We now know that, as this was announced, Operation Midnight Hammer was in fact in its final planning stages.

Israel stuck to the script, evening  feigning frustration and vowing to strike Fordow without the US support they must have known was coming.

Government sources leaked to The Times of Israel that Netanyahu’s administration had a “tense” call with the White House expressing their concerns.

This too appears to have been a ruse to lull Iran into a false sense of security.

As the operation kicked off at midnight on Friday night, the misdirection continued.

The Sun reports from inside as Israel as tensions flare following US air strikes

A decoy fleet of B-2s flew west over over the Pacific and towards Guam.

Their only purpose was to throw intelligence off the scent of the actual operative fleet – which at the same moment was gliding quietly east, bound for Iran.

Only “an extremely small number of planners and key leaders” knew the truth, General Caine said.

The strike group consisted of seven B-2 bombers each loaded with two of the 14-ton “bunker-buster” bombs.

U.S. Air Force B-2 stealth bomber in flight.
A B-2 bomber returns to the Whiteman air base in Missouri after completing the missionCredit: Reuters
Pete Hegseth speaking at a Pentagon press conference.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed details about the operation after it had completedCredit: Getty
Illustration of Operation Midnight Hammer, showing the military operation's route and targets.

The round trip was 37 hours, so an armada of more than 100 support aircraft was needed to help them refuel on the wing.

Strict instructions were issued to keep communications to a minimum to avoid detection.

Then at half past midnight Iranian time, a US submarine launched more than two dozen Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles at the Isfahan nuclear site in east Iran.

An hour later, the bomber squadron entered Iranian airspace – still undetected, but in perilous enemy territory.

A guided-missile submarine in the Suez Canal.
Two dozen tomahawk missiles were launched from US submarines during the air-and-sea operationCredit: AP
Aerial view of a bombed-out building with emergency responders on site.
Damage in the Ramat Aviv neighbourhood of Tel Aviv after Iran hit back following the US strikesCredit: Getty
Missiles launched from Iran intercepted over Tel Aviv.
Iranian missiles being intercepted over Israel the morning after Midnight HammerCredit: Reuters

More decoy and scout planes swooped out ahead of the main unit to distract any awaiting Iranian defence jets – but they encountered none.

The escort group stood ready to launch preemptive fire on any surface-to-air missiles or jets, but not a single shot was fired at the operatives.

The first bombs dropped at 2:10am Iranian time – the darkest hour of the night – and 25 minutes later it was all over.

Officials revealed that around 75 precision-guided weapons were unleashed in total, with 14 of the “bunker-busters” dropped on Fordow.

The B-2s were programmed to drop one bomb first, followed by another shortly afterwards onto the exact same impact site. point of impact.

Illustration of a map showing the locations of Iranian nuclear facilities targeted with bunker buster bombs and Tomahawk missiles.
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