Update: New Details Confirm Air Force’s Precision During ‘Operation Midnight Hammer’...Newly released Pentagon briefings reveal the inside story of the most ambitious U.S. air operation in decades. Operation Midnight Hammer began with a silent takeoff just after midnight Saturday from Whiteman AFB, Missouri, where seven B-2 Spirit bombers departed on a roughly 37-hour round-trip mission to Iran and back, making it one of the longest stealth strike missions in U.S. history. Each bomber carried two GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators—30,000-lb bunker-busters—marking the first operational use of this weapon. . The strike package coordinated with fighters, surveillance aircraft, and tankers—over 125 U.S. aircraft in total. As the B-2s approached Iranian airspace, a U.S. submarine in the region launched more than two dozen Tomahawk missiles targeting the Isfahan site. Simultaneously, fighters cleared the airspace and used deception tactics (including the decoy B-2s flying west toward Guam)....