President Donald Trump welcomed the pilots of the B-2 stealth bombers back to the United States following the “very successful” bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday night.
On Truth Social, Trump posted the footage of one of the B-2s landing in Missouri on Sunday evening, the day after the bombers completed “Operation Midnight Hammer.”
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“The GREAT B-2 pilots have just landed, safely, in Missouri,” Trump said in a separate post. “Thank you for a job well done!!!”
Trump’s video of the plane landing included a statement that the nuclear sites in Iran have incurred “monumental” damage, and that the hits against them were “hard and accurate.”
Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX), an Army veteran, also shared the landing footage on X, writing, “Welcome home.”
US HAS ‘COMPLETED’ BOMBING OF IRANIAN NUCLEAR SITES, TRUMP SAYS
Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that over 125 aircraft were involved in this mission, including several B-2s. The bombers were carrying the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, a 30,000-pound bomb designed to hit hardened underground structures, and they were used at Natanz and Fordow, two of the three nuclear sites.
The bombers were deployed from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, which holds all 19 of the B-2 bomber fleet, for the mission.