American B-2 stealth bombers left the US and appeared to be heading toward Diego Garcia, a strategic military base in the Indian Ocean, on Saturday.
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The warplanes were using the call sign MYTEE21, which has previously been associated with stealth bomber missions. The bombers were accompanied by eight supply planes.
The B-2 Spirit is designed for long-range strike missions and is capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear weapons.
It is the only aircraft capable of delivering the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, also known as the bunker buster bomb. Bunker busters could be used in a possible attack on Fordow, the Iranian nuclear facility buried 300ft inside a mountain.
It was unclear whether the bombers were heading to Diego Garcia or a US military base in Guam.
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