Decoy flights and seven B-2 stealth bombers - how US says it hit Iran's nuclear sites

 Decoy flights and seven B-2 stealth bombers - how US says it hit Iran's nuclear sites

An 18-hour flight each way, multiple mid-air refuelings, and a series of decoys - this is how the mission to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities played out, according to four-star General Dan Caine, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest-ranking officer in the US military.

Although the full impact of what the US is calling 'Operation Midnight Hammer' is still unclear, a timeline of how the complex mission unfolded was laid out in a Pentagon briefing on Sunday morning, mere hours after the strikes.

American bombers went "in and out and back without the world knowing at all", US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told reporters.

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