The U.S. reportedly deployed B-2 stealth bombers this week to strike underground weapon storage facilities used by the Houthis, an Iranian-backed Islamic terrorist group based in Yemen.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said that bombers targeted “hardened underground facilities housing missiles, weapons components, and other munitions used to target military and civilian vessels throughout the region.”
The strikes come as the terror group has sunk multiple ships and attacked dozens more throughout the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden over the last year following Hamas’ October 7 terrorist attack.
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“These actions were taken to degrade the Houthi’s capability to continue their reckless and unlawful attacks on international commercial shipping and on U.S., coalition, and merchant personnel and vessels in the Red Sea, Bab Al-Mandeb Strait, and the Gulf of Aden, and to degrade their ability to threaten regional partners,” the statement said.
CENTCOM said that the decision to involve the B-2 stealth bombers in the airstrikes was to demonstrate the “U.S. global strike capabilities to reach these targets, when necessary, anytime, anywhere.”
U.S. Central Command Conducts Multiple Strikes on Underground Iran-Backed Houthi Weapons Facilities pic.twitter.com/6YjQRVFvSD
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) October 17, 2024
The use of the B-2 stealth bombers is a message to Iran as the strategic heavy bomber is the only aircraft capable of delivering the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), the most powerful non-nuclear bunker buster in the world.
The weapon is likely the only non-nuclear weapon that exists that is able to reach Iran’s Fordow nuclear enrichment plant, which is built inside a mountain in north-central Iran.
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The U.S. reportedly deployed B-2 stealth bombers this week to strike underground weapon storage facilities used by the Houthis, an Iranian-backed Islamic terrorist group based in Yemen.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said that bombers targeted “hardened underground facilities housing missiles, weapons components, and other munitions used to target military and civilian vessels throughout the region.”
The strikes come as the terror group has sunk multiple ships and attacked dozens more throughout the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden over the last year following Hamas’ October 7 terrorist attack.
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“These actions were taken to degrade the Houthi’s capability to continue their reckless and unlawful attacks on international commercial shipping and on U.S., coalition, and merchant personnel and vessels in the Red Sea, Bab Al-Mandeb Strait, and the Gulf of Aden, and to degrade their ability to threaten regional partners,” the statement said.
CENTCOM said that the decision to involve the B-2 stealth bombers in the airstrikes was to demonstrate the “U.S. global strike capabilities to reach these targets, when necessary, anytime, anywhere.”
U.S. Central Command Conducts Multiple Strikes on Underground Iran-Backed Houthi Weapons Facilities pic.twitter.com/6YjQRVFvSD
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) October 17, 2024
The use of the B-2 stealth bombers is a message to Iran as the strategic heavy bomber is the only aircraft capable of delivering the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), the most powerful non-nuclear bunker buster in the world.
The weapon is likely the only non-nuclear weapon that exists that is able to reach Iran’s Fordow nuclear enrichment plant, which is built inside a mountain in north-central Iran.
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