President Donald Trump announced Saturday evening that the United States had conducted “very successful” airstrikes against three Iranian nuclear facilities, marking the first direct U.S. military involvement in the escalating Israel-Iran conflict.
According to Fox News host Sean Hannity, citing Trump administration sources, six bunker-busting bombs were dropped on the Fordow facility from U.S. Air Force B-2 bombers, while Isfahan and Natanz were targeted with Tomahawk cruise missiles from submarines.
“We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home.”
The GBU-57s, better known as “bunker busters” or Massive Ordnance Penetrators, can only be carried by B-2 bombers, with each aircraft capable of carrying two of these 30,000-pound weapons at a time.
Multiple B-2 stealth bombers were detected heading west across the Pacific on Saturday, as speculation mounted that the U.S. would strike Fordow.
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