What is Operation Midnight Hammer? US reveals details of ‘deliberate, exact’ strike on Iran

The operation that US launched on Iran after President Donald Trump ditched his two-week deadline was named Operation Midnight Hammer, the Pentagon introduced Sunday revealing the details of the deliberate and precision assault in opposition to three Iranian nuclear services. It was a fancy and high-risk mission carried out with distinctive talent and self-discipline by the joint power. The operation was designed to severely degrade Iran’s nuclear weapon infrastructure; it was deliberate and executed throughout a number of domains and theatres with coordination that displays US skill to undertaking energy globally, the Pentagon stated at a briefing. Operation Midnight Hammer was a extremely labeled mission with only a few folks in Washington with data about it — its timing or nature, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine stated.

Details of ‘Operation Midnight Hammer’

1. At midnight Friday into Saturday morning, a big B-2 strike bundle comprising bombers launched from the continental United States as half of a plan to keep up the tactical shock of the bundle, the Pentagon stated.
2. Part of the bundle proceeded to the West and proceeded to the Pacific as decoy. This decoy operation was solely identified to a particularly small quantity of planners and key leaders in Washington.
3. The predominant strike bundle comprised seven B-2 bombers, every with two crew members. This bundle proceeded quietly to the east with minimal communication.
4. Through the 18-hour flight into the goal space, the plane (predominant bundle) accomplished a number of in-flight refuelings.
5. Once over the land, the B-2s linked up with escort and help plane in a fancy, tightly timed manoeuvre, requiring actual synchronisation throughout a number of platforms in a slim piece of airspace — all completed with minimal communication. The Pentagon stated that this sort of integration is what US Joint Force is identified for on the earth.
6. At 5pm (EST), simply earlier than the strike bundle entered Iran, a US submarine within the Central Command space of accountability launched greater than two dozen Tomahawk land assault cruise missiles in opposition to key floor infrastructure targets at Isfahan.
7. When the strike bundle entered the Iranian airspace, the US employed a number of deception ways, together with decoys because the 4th- and Fifth-Generation plane pushed out in entrance of the strike bundle in excessive altitude and excessive velocity, sweeping in entrance of the bundle.
8. Then the strike bundle approached Fordow and Natanz, the US safety bundle employed high-speed suppression weapons to make sure protected passage of the strike bundle with fighter property using pre-emptive suppressing fires in opposition to any potential Iranian surface-to-air threats. Pentagon stated it is not conscious of any pictures fired on the US strike bundle on the best way in.
9. At 6.40 pm (EST), the lead B-2 bombers dropped two GBU-57 on the primary of a number of aimpoints at Fordow.
10. All three Iranian infrastructure targets have been struck between 6.40 PM and seven.05 PM (EST). The Tomahawk missiles have been the final to strike at Isfahan, because the Pentagon described them because the shock aspect of the assault. After the weapon launch, the Midnight Hammer Strike bundle exited Iranian airspace and started returning house. Pentagon stated it was not conscious of any pictures fired at them through the exit.