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Excessive-level sources have knowledgeable Fox Information that in rescue efforts in Iran after a U.S. fighter jet was shot down, the commander of U.S. Central Command directed an assault towards an underground Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps headquarters.
Whereas the airman rescue was happening, CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper directed a strike on an IRGC headquarters in an underground facility close to Tehran — it was achieved with B2 bombers, utilizing Huge Ordnance Penetrators, the identical weapon used final yr in Operation Midnight Hammer, in accordance with the sources. Fox Information is instructed the headquarters was obliterated.
U.S. army B1 bombers (BONES) dropped 100 2,000-pound bombs through the rescue operations to maintain Iranians away from the rescue space through the operation, in accordance with a senior U.S. protection official.
A senior army supply instructed Fox Information, “we delivered the warmth” on the IRGC.
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Adm. Brad” Cooper, commander of Central Command, speaks throughout a joint press convention with Secretary of Battle Pete Hegseth at CENTCOM headquarters at MacDill Air Pressure Base in Tampa, Florida, on March 5, 2026. (Octavio Jones/AFP through Getty Pictures)
CENTCOM famous in a press release that U.S. forces had rescued two service members after their F-15E was downed.
Fox Information was instructed that the operation passed off between the 2 rescues: Cooper ordered the B2s to fly spherical journey from Whiteman Air Pressure Base within the U.S. as a result of they acquired time-sensitive intelligence in regards to the location of a lot of IRGC commanders inside this underground bunker in Tehran, and the Huge Ordnance Penetrators, bunker buster bombs, had been dropped by the B2 warplanes.
Wreckage is seen from what Iranian authorities say is a U.S. army helicopter that crashed throughout a mission to rescue the lacking American pilot of an F-15E that was downed, in a handout picture supplied on April 5, 2026, in an unspecified location in Iran. (Iran’s Ministry of Tradition and Islamic Steerage/Handout through Getty Pictures)
Following the rescues, President Donald Trump declared in a Reality Social put up, “We’ve rescued the severely wounded, and actually courageous, F-15 Crew Member/Officer, from deep contained in the mountains of Iran. The Iranian Navy was trying onerous, in huge numbers, and getting shut. He’s a extremely revered Colonel. This sort of raid is seldom tried due to the hazard to ‘man and tools.’ It simply doesn’t occur!”
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“The second raid got here after the primary one, the place we rescued the pilot in broad daylight, additionally uncommon, spending seven hours over Iran. An AMAZING present of bravery and expertise by all!” he mentioned.
