Pilots and crew B-2 who helped attack Iranian nuclear sites earlier this month are told to maintain a profile under this weekend if President Donald Trump occupies with his offer to come to the White House on Friday on July 4.
Trump insists that the pilots “erased” the nuclear program of Iran completely during a bombing mission of June 21 and that the B-2 pilots were “devastated” by news reports that questioned their evaluation.
Insisting that pilots should be exhausted as heroes, Trump invited them already their teams to celebrate the July 4 holidays in Washington, which the White House said it would include high steps with B-2 bomber, as well as combat jets F-22 and F-35, which were also part of the recent bombing operation.
A B-2 spirit of the US Air Force gives the opportunity to support Operation Midnight Hammer at the base of the Whiteman Air Force, Missouri, June 2025.
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However, the authorities say that until Wednesday there is no public ceremony and that the identities of the pilots are not revealed for security reasons.
“Our adversaries are experts in exploiting the digital field, collecting and analyzing open source information and taking advantage of advanced technologies to attack the military personnel of the United States, operations and activities,” according to a declaration of the Air Force.
President Donald Trump talks about the press when arriving at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, on June 20, 2025.
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“The aviators involved in confidential missions are reported on the risks and vulnerabilities raised by the changing information environment to help administer the public release of information in a way that protects the safety of personnel and assets,” the statement added.
According to the Pentagon, the 14 pilots aboard seven B-2 spiritual bombers flew more than 36 direct hours of the Whiteman Air Force base in Missouri as part of the “Operation Midnight Hammer”.
The satellite images released by Maxar Technologies show damage to the nuclear installation of Fordo in Iran following US attacks.
Satellite image © 2025 Maxar Technologies.
The pilots threw 14 bunker-buuster bombs in the Natules and Natanz nuclear sites in Iran. A third place, Isfahan, was beaten by Missile Tomahawk.
In the immediate hours after the attack, the defense intelligence agency produced an early evaluation that estimated that the sites suffered significant damage, but estimated that Iran’s nuclear program was retreated by “months.”
According to the two people familiar with the classified report, the bombing sealed the entries to two of the three nuclear sites directed in the attack, but that most of the damage was made to structures on the ground, leaving the lower intact structures.
This image of a photographic brochure without date of the US Department of Defense. UU shows a US b-2 bomber. UU. In flight in an unleashed place. The signing bombers of the United States flew on June 21, 2025 in the Pacific Ocean, according to the follow -up data and media reports, feeding the speculation about his mission provided as President Donald Trump considers to join Israel’s attack on Iranian nuclear sites.
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The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh, and the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, later said “new intelligence” found that the bombing campaign returned the program for years.
The dissemination of day findings, first informed by CNN, enraged Trump, who said the pilots were “devastated.”
“You know, I received a call from Missouri, a great state that I won three times for a long time,” Trump said. “And I received a call that pilots and people on the plane were devastated because they [the press] They tried to minimize the attack … I talked to one of them [who] He said: ‘Lord, we arrive at the site. It was perfect. I was dead. “
“Because they do not understand the false news, because they have a normal life, except that they have to fly very large and very fast planes. But it is a shame. You should be making heroes,” Trump said.
