The US Air Force’s stealth bombers are expected to arrive at British bases within hours, suggesting that Donald Trump’s massive attack on Iran that he dubbed the “big one” is imminent. The Mail has more.

America’s stealth air fleet including its B-1s, B-2s and B-52s are said to be on their way to Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands and RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.

The strategic bombers, costing up to $2 billion each, can carry out long-range missions without detection while carrying the world’s most devastating missiles.

Sources have suggested that Saturday could be D-day for a new gigantic bombardment – exactly a week after America and Israel first attacked Iran as part of Operation Epic Fury.

The US President warned Iran this week that the “big one” was coming, adding: “We haven’t even started hitting them hard. The big wave has not even happened.”

And US War Secretary Pete Hegseth said overnight that America will now use British RAF bases to “dramatically” up its strikes on Iran after the Prime Minister allowed the Americans to launch defensive strikes from UK-US bases.

“When we say more to come, it’s more fighter squadrons, it’s more capabilities, it’s more defensive capabilities, and it’s more bomber pulses more frequently,” Hegseth said. 

After a delay that saw Trump claim that Sir Keir Starmer was “unhelpful” and is “no Winston Churchill”, the UK is now letting the US use British bases for “defensive” strikes against missile facilities in Iran.  

Experts believe some American bombers could drop the ‘Mother of All Bombs’, a 10-tonne explosive that creates 1,000 ft holes in the ground, taking out tunnels and bunkers while simultaneously pulling infrastructures such as bridges down into the giant crater. …

Military experts have said that the “big one” Trump has warned Iran will use America’s most destructive arsenal – and appears imminent.

Sascha Bruchmann, a Research Fellow for Defence at the office of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in Bahrain, told the Daily Telegraph: “The big one is a sustained bombing campaign via the strategic bomber fleet, so the B-1s, the B-2s and the B-52s.

“Last night, Centcom [US Central Command] said there was one B-1 bomber, and the night before there were four B-2s, who dropped heavier payloads, so 1,000 to 2,000lb bombs with some bunker-busting capabilities against those missile sites.

“Now that there’s air dominance achieved, and we’ve seen US Reaper drones over cities, which you wouldn’t have if there were some kind of air defences.”

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