March 4 (UPI) -- Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan Caine announced that the U.S. military has greater control over Iranian airspace and will launch a major bombing campaign in a press conference Wednesday.
"More and larger waves are coming. We are just getting started. We are accelerating, not decelerating," Hegseth said. "Iran's capabilities are evaporating by the hour, while American strength grows fiercer, smarter and utterly dominant."
"More bombers, fighters are arriving just today. And now with complete control of the skies, we will be using 500-pound, 1,000-pound and 2,000-pound GPS-and-laser-guided precision gravity bombs, which we have a nearly unlimited stockpile," he added.
Caine clarified that the strikes so far have lowered Iran's defenses enough to clear skies for bombing, and that the military would start using GPS-aided free-fall weapons and Hellfire missiles.
"This will allow the joint force to deliver significantly increased precision effects on the target. The throttle is coming up, as the secretary said, as opposed to ramping down," he said. "This will allow us to maintain consistent pressure on the adversary over the coming days, disrupt their launch timelines and impose costs every day around the clock."
