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  • 6/25/2025
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00:00In the dead of night cloaked in radar-absorbing skin and silence, a ghost took flight.
00:04Its mission to strike deep beneath the earth, where secrets sleep in steel and concrete.
00:09This is the B-2 Spirit. A $2.1 billion marvel of stealth engineering.
00:14Its destination, Iran. Its payload 14 GBU-57 bunker busters, each capable of punching through
00:2060 meters of reinforced concrete. At Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, the mission was greenlit.
00:26Operation Midnight Hammer was a go. The target Fordow Natanz and Isfahan. Nuclear facilities
00:32buried deep beneath Iranian soil. Under cover of darkness, the spirits lifted off. Their journey,
00:3818 hours round-trip, spanning continents, oceans, and hostile airspace. Precision was everything.
00:44Mid-air refueling kept the bombers alive, silence kept them invisible. The world slept,
00:49unaware of the storm above. At 3.42 a.m. local time the first GBU-57 dropped.
00:56Guided by GPS and inertial navigation, it fell with the force of gravity and vengeance. Within
01:01milliseconds of impact, it detonated, obliterating its underground target. Iran never saw it coming.
01:08Decoy bombers flew west toward Guam. The real strike came from the east. Mission complete.
01:12The spirits turned home. 18 hours in the sky, zero casualties, maximum impact. The world awoke
01:18to headlines. The strike had changed the game. A message had been sent, not with words,
01:23but with shadows and steel. Operation Midnight Hammer. The ghost that struck first.

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