The United States is moving its most lethal stealth bombers—B-2 stealth bombers—to the Pacific island of Guam, according Reuters.
The high-stakes move comes as President Donald Trump weighs whether the U.S. should formally join Israel’s escalating strikes against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
While officials downplayed any direct connection between the deployment and Middle East tensions, the timing is anything but coincidental.
The B-2 isn’t your average bomber—it’s a nuclear-capable stealth aircraft designed for deep-penetration missions and can carry the massive GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, a 30,000-pound bunker-busting beast designed to obliterate fortified underground targets—like Iran’s Fordow nuclear site.
In other words: the U.S. is positioning its ace in the hole.
The officials declined to say how many B-2s are heading to Guam or what the precise mission entails, but the move sends a loud and clear message to Tehran.
No final order has been issued to push them beyond Guam, yet the Pentagon remains silent as speculation mounts. Military analysts believe the real prize might be Diego Garcia, the U.S.-British air base in the Indian Ocean that serves as a forward operating base ideally located for striking targets in the Middle East.
Until recently, B-2s