As part of military operation “Epic Fury,” the United States attacked ballistic missile facilities in Iran from its territory with two B-2 strategic bombers loaded with heavy bombs, according to the Central Command of the Armed Forces of the North American country.

The bombings started from the air base of Whitemanin Missourito travel more than 20,000 kilometers round trip this weekend to attack Iranian underground facilities linked to the ballistic missile program with dozens of 2,000-pound (900-kilogram) bombs.

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Both aircraft carried out their mission without landing and refueling in mid-flight. on a route that passed through the Azores (Portugal) and the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean.

The strategic bombers emulated the mission last June in which in a similar way seven B-2s hit the main facilities of the Iranian nuclear program with bunker-busting precision bombs.

These types of missions of the US Air Force highlight the force projection capacity of USA, which has made a large deployment of aerial refueling aircraft, electronic warfare and transport aircraft, as well as F-22 and F-35 fighters, to which were added two naval attack squadrons from the aircraft carriers Gerald Ford and Abraham Lincoln.

Radio amateurs shared the communications of one of the B-2s, with the code PETRO41, when it came into contact with the control tower in Seville (Spain) on its way back to the United States.

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