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Midnight Hammer Was the Second-Longest Bombing Mission: The B-2 Also Flew the Longest

IRAN, JUN 21 – The US Air Force used a decoy B-2 bomber to mislead Iranian defenses, enabling a 37-hour strike delivering 14 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs on Iran's nuclear sites, officials said.

Operation Midnight Hammer saw B-2 Spirit stealth bombers fly from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri to strike nuclear facilities in Iran. The 37-hour round trip made it the second-longest bombing mission in history. But if you ain’t first, you’re last. Luckily for the B-2’s record, it also flew the longest bombing mission over two decades earlier. A B-2 Spirit at Whiteman AFB is prepared ahead of Operation Midnight Hammer (U.S. Air Force) On the…

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The Operation Midnight Hammer conducted by the United States in recent days lends itself to a multiplicity of interpretations. The action, anticipated with much advance notice from Washington to Tehran, would have, according to the director of the CIA John Ratcliffe and the director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, «devastated Iranian nuclear sites», although an analysis by the Defense Intelligence Agency and the same statements formulate…

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TFIGlobal broke the news in on Saturday, July 5, 2025.
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