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Amid Simmering Iran Tensions, Pentagon Deploys B-52 Squadron to Diego Garcia

January 6, 2020

The US Air Force has deployed a squadron of six B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers to Diego Garcia, an island base in the Indian Ocean within striking distance of Iran.

A US official told CNN Monday that the Pentagon would soon send six of the heavy bombers to the base on Diego Garcia, a British territory, for potential use against Iran if ordered to do so.

The base is 2,300 miles south of Iran’s southernmost point, but well within striking distance for bombers given mid-air refueling. It is a common stopping-off point for US bombers.

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The British government has leased the tiny Island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean to the United States since 1966.

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US President Donald Trump said on Sunday the US was prepared to strike 52 targets in Iran, including sites of cultural significance, if Iran retaliated for the US assassination of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani. The general was killed at Baghdad Airport on January 3 in a US drone strike, with US leaders claiming the move was “defensive” and that Soleimani was plotting attacks against US forces.

The Iraqi government later revealed Soleimani was in Baghdad to hear a proposal by regional rival and US client Saudi Arabia to bury the proverbial hatchet.

Wow, the freak out of mansplaining is real. I’ve deleted a previous tweet because of alarmist reactions by people who should know better.
1) B-52s are nuclear bomb delivery planes
2) Nobody knows (yet) if the ones sent to Diego Garcia are specifically meant for that.

— Kevin Baron (@DefenseBaron) January 6, 2020

The bombers were later spotted by plane watching account Aircraft Spots, having departed Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisana en route for Diego Garcia.

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JAN 06: USAF B-52Hs MYTEE51 & 52 departed Barksdale AFB for Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean due to #Iran tensions. pic.twitter.com/2PgkMMnAXw

— Aircraft Spots (@AircraftSpots) January 7, 2020

​Built by Boeing, the eight-engined B-52 is the US military’s largest bomber, capable of carrying a wide variety of weapons, including cruise missiles, conventional and laser-guided bombs, and most notoriously, nuclear gravity bombs.

Washington previously sent several B-52 bombers to Qatar in May 2019, along with other forces that included a carrier strike group.

 

Featured image: Courtesy of US Pacific Air Forces

Source URL: Sputnik

 

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