The United States began moving several of its strategic B-2 bombers to the Guam Island in the Pacific Ocean, NBC News reported on Saturday and Reuters. It is not clear whether there is a preparation for an attack on Iran. However, these bombers are known to be able to deliver special bombs that are the only one to destroy the Iranian underground enrichment facility for Uranus Fordó, writes TASR.
Two to four B-2 bombers, along with four Boeing KC-46 Pegasus aircraft designed to replenish fuel in the air, took off from the Whiteman Air Base in the US state of Missouri and are heading towards GUAM, where the US has an air and naval base, Haarec wrote. Also, two unnamed sources from the Ministry of Defense, according to the NBC News, talked about the summer of “several” bombers.
Bombs developed to destroy targets deep underground
These advanced machines equipped with Stealth technology are able to carry more than 13-ton GBU-57A/B mop bombs specially developed to destroy the targets deep below the ground. According to Sky News, these bombs would be needed for a successful attack on Fordó, which is hidden tens of meters below the mountain.
Reuters sources, who spoke on the condition of maintaining anonymity, refused to provide any further details of the transfer of bombers. According to one of them, there has been no order of further movement outside the guam.
Trump’s ultimatum of Iran
According to Reuters, experts will watch carefully whether the B-2 will move to the US-British military base on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, which they believe is the ideal location for the Middle East.
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will decide within two weeks whether the US will attack Iran, who has been facing Israel on 13 June. On Friday, Trump said he had given Tehran a “maximum of two weeks” to avoid possible American raids.
According to Sky News, the deployment of bombers suggests that Trump can be ready to attack before expected, but US TV newsletter Mark Stone noted that moving the B-2 could be a manifestation of power to China as well as Iran.
Trump, who rarely spends weekends in Washington, is due to return to the White House on Saturday evening to an unspecified “National Security Meeting”, AFP wrote.
