The United States has positioned six of its stealth bombers B-2 in 30% of its full fleet on a small island on the coast of India before a Saturday meeting between the leaders of Washington and Tehran about Huthíes attacks at sea.
The private tasks of Satellite Images of Planet Labs last week showed at least six of the bombers in Diego García, home of a joint-british air base of the United States about 2,400 miles from the southern coast of Iran. It is believed to be one of the largest contingents of bombers to unfold in recent history.
The bombers are the only US aircraft capable of transporting “Bunker Busters” GBU-57, the Non-Nuclear Nuclear Pump larger, which is designed to attack underground objectives. Each B-2 can carry two of the massive explosives, which cost around $ 20 million each
The demonstration of force, the details of what the Pentagon has not confirmed the countries, since the US military amplifiers increase their pressure on the huti forces backed by Iran in Yemen, who have Israel and global shipping in the Red Sea. It also comes days before the United States sends a delegation for conversations on a possible nuclear agreement of Iran.
The United States has used Bunker Busters in the past to aim at the storage of underground weapons of the hutis, and has been hitting goals within Yemen at a rate almost daily during the week.
“There are two birds, a stone,” said Brian Carter, of the American Institute’s American Enterprise critical threat project, to The Post of the deployment. “(United States) has been using them against the hutis to hit the underground infrastructure, and then, when they will see B-2 appear in the region, that is quite worrying for them.”
Around the weekend, there were “at least 26 air attacks aimed at the infrastructure and leadership of Houthi in the Yemen areas controlled by Houthi,” said the War Study Institute in its last update on Monday.
Meanwhile, Trump announced on Monday that the main negotiators of the United States would meet with Iranian officials to discuss a nuclear agreement in direct conversations established for Saturday, and added that he hoped to avoid the “obvious” army.
“I think that if the conversations are not successful with Iran, I think Iran will be in great danger, and I hate to say” in great danger “, because it cannot have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said.
The verbal threat echoed a letter that the president sent last month to Grand Ayatolá Ali Khamenei, asking him to negotiate with the United States or in front of a possible military action.
Bombers are just a piece of a greater American presence in the Middle East.
Last week, the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseeth, ordered “the deployment of additional squadrons and other aerial assets that will further reinforce our defensive air support capabilities,” said Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell on April 1.
“The United States and its partners remain committed to regional security in the Centcom (Operations Area) and are prepared to respond to any state or non -state actor who approaches Braden or increases the conflict in the region,” Parnell added.
“Secretary Hegseeth continues to make it clear that, if Iran or their representatives threaten US staff and interests in the region, the United States will take decisive measures to defend our people.”
