Top U.S. military officials revealed the historic strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities utilized a massive deception effort, including the use of 'decoy' planes that allowed the actual bombers to go 'completely undetected.'
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine spoke to reporters in a rare early morning press briefing Sunday at the Pentagon.
'Our B-2s went in and out and back without the world knowing at all,' Hegseth said. It was one the most robust B-2 bomber strikes carried out in history.
'A large B-2 strike package comprised of bombers launched from the continental United States as part of a plan to maintain tactical surprise part of the package proceeded to the west and into the Pacific as a decoy, a deception effort known only to an extremely small number of climbers and key leaders here in Washington,' Caine said.
The chairman of the joint chiefs claimed no Iranian planes were deployed to intercept the bombers, and the planes used in the strike were not hit with any fire.
