Overview
- CENTCOM said bombers struck 200 targets in the past 72 hours, with B-2s using 2,000‑pound munitions on buried launchers and B-1s and B-52s hitting sites including near Tehran.
- U.K. approval to use Diego Garcia and RAF Fairford is halving mission times, boosting sortie rates and expanding the reach of heavy bomber operations.
- U.S. officials report a roughly 90 percent drop in Iranian ballistic missile launches since the war began and tally more than 2,000 targets hit across Iran to date.
- U.S. forces struck an Iranian drone‑carrying ship now burning and hit Iran’s space command equivalent, as Tehran warned countries hosting satellite ground stations and uplink providers.
- Analysts highlight strain on a historically small U.S. bomber fleet and back accelerated B-52 modernization and B-21 fielding even as additional fighters and bombers flow into the theater.