The US has positioned six of its stealthy B-2 bombers — roughly 30% of its entire fleet — on a tiny island off India’s coast ahead of a Saturday meeting between Washington and Tehran’s leaders as tensions flare over Houthi attacks in the Red Sea.
Private satellite imagery taken by Planet Labs last week showed at least six of the bombers on Diego Garcia, home to a joint US-British air base about 2,400 miles from Iran’s southern coast. It is believed to be one of the largest contingents of the bombers to deploy in recent history.
The bombers are the only US aircraft capable of carrying GBU-57 “bunker busters” — the largest non-nuclear American bomb, which is designed to strike underground targets. Each B-2 can
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