{"id":296919,"date":"2024-10-19T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=296919"},"modified":"2024-10-20T07:08:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T07:08:45","slug":"us-attacks-houthi-bunkers-using-stealth-bombers-in-warning-to-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=296919","title":{"rendered":"US attacks Houthi bunkers using stealth bombers in warning to Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Barnes \u2013 The Daily Telegraph Oct 17, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The United States has struck Houthi<\/a> weapons sites in Yemen for the first time using B-2 stealth bombers.<\/p>\n

The warplanes targeted five underground storage sites in the strikes, Lloyd Austin, the US defence secretary, said late on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a unique demonstration of the United States\u2019s ability to target facilities that our adversaries seek to keep out of reach, no matter how deeply buried underground, hardened, or fortified,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Austin said the use of B-2 long-range bombers<\/a> was an example of \u201cUS global strike capabilities\u201d, in what could be seen as a veiled threat to Iran.<\/p>\n

While the defence secretary made no reference to the Islamic republic, the warplanes are the only aircraft capable of striking Tehran\u2019s deeply buried nuclear facilities.<\/p>\n

The B-2 Spirit<\/a>, the radar-evading bat-wing warplane, is normally used by the Pentagon as a show of force.<\/p>\n

The $1 billion aircraft can carry the Pentagon\u2019s largest weapons and relies on mid-air refuelling to carry out missions without landing.<\/p>\n

They would have flown from their usual base in Missouri or been launched from a base closer to Yemen.<\/p>\n

The US has about 19 of the aircraft, which are permanently based at Whiteman Air Force Base, although they have been deployed on exercises in the Pacific and Indian oceans.<\/p>\n

The strikes on the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels came after Tehran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles at Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Houthis have been targeting commercial vessels and military warships in the Red Sea<\/a> and Gulf of Aden in response to Israel\u2019s war against Hamas in Gaza.<\/p>\n

The Iranian-backed terror group has used a wide array of missiles and drones to carry out their attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will continue to make clear to the Houthis that there will be consequences for their illegal and reckless attacks,\u201d Mr Austin said.<\/p>\n

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The strikes against Houthi bunkers by the U.S. B-2 bombers is seen as signaling to Iran: your underground nuclear facilities are within reach and could be next <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":175121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296920,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296919\/revisions\/296920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/175121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}