Air Force Confirms B-52 Stratofortress Activity Inside Iran

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Although B-52 Stratofortresses have taken part in Operation Epic Fury since early March, they are now operating inside Iranian airspace, according to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

One of the Air Force’s most powerful strategic bombers is now operating over Iran. 

According to the Pentagon, B-52 Stratofortress bombers are conducting overland missions over Iran in support of Operation Epic Fury.  

American B-52s Are Inside Iran for the First Time

The B-52 has been fighting in the war since the first days of the operation, but it only completed its first overland missions recently.  

“Given the increase in air superiority, we’ve successfully started to conduct the first overland B-52 missions,” Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine said in a Department of Defense media briefing this week.

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