The USS Nimitz, one of the 11 nuclear aircraft carriers of the United States, abruptly changed the course on Monday and isolated from the southern China Sea towards the Middle East when Israel intensified bombing campaign in Iran.
The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group-Obasing of the aircraft carrier and three rockets designed destroyers will join a strike group and several destroyers in the region. It will take about a week for a drive to be a US defense officer.
The use of the colossal ship is one of the clearest signals that President Donald Trump consider to join Israel in the attack of Iranand throw the military in America in another War in the Middle East.
In the US and Israel, Fordow, the underground uranium preparation facility, which is buried deep in a mountain and is covered in concrete near the old Iranian city of Qom.
Despite the damage that Israel has added to Iran in the past few days, they have neither the bombs nor the planes required to beat Ford.
But the United States has the 30,000 pound bunker-busting GBU-57 Massive Ordnance penetrator bombs and the stealth-b-2 bombers you can wear are probably from the British US basis on the island of the island of Diego Garcia from the Indian Ocean of 5,200 km.
Every US bomb attack in Iran is polluted with danger and would need days of planning and progress positioning of material and personnel.
“There are rather important, but not insurmountable logistics” for Pentagon and Centcom, said Joseph Votel, former commander of the US Central Command, who is responsible for military operations from 2016 to 2019 for military operations.
“In order to deliver this thing, we have to make sure that we work in an environment in which we control all variables in which air defense systems of Iranians or electronic warfare can be suppressed,” he said the Financial Times.
Votel said the United States would probably get four or five B-2 bombers in the base of Diego Garcia, as the relative closeness to the destination and its long runway. This would be enough aircraft to carry out the mission and to be slightly available.
If the United States decided to go on to Fordow, “we want to make sure that we will be successful in it,” added Votel.
But he admitted that “the president could be ready” before the Carrier Strike Group arrives. Trump indicated on Wednesday that he could be ready to attack Iran within a few days and said: “The next week will be very big”.
The United States has 19 B-2 bombers in its fleet and around 20 GBU 57 bombs, said Mark Cancian, a former Pentagon official who is now a senior consultant at the Center for Strategic and International Studies Think-Tank. Each B-2 bomber can wear two bunkerbusters.
According to Cancian, a bomb would probably be enough to meet Fordow, but he suspects that the United States would use “three or four to be safe. Other experts say accuracy.
If the B-2 bombers are used, other aircraft are accompanied, including some of the GPS or laser-controlled ammunition, to ensure that one of the remaining or reconstituted electronic war systems of the Iranian War can be destroyed.
Another essential component would be the tank aircraft with medium air, which could fill up American or Israeli aircraft before a possible direct participation. The Pentagon ordered dozens to drive to Europe from its US bases.
Washington would also have to use search and rescue teams if one of its bombers has been shot down or malfunctioned. It also wants to ensure that the resources for the secret services are based in the battle, including room -based systems or satellites that could carry out ratings without the need for staff.
The United States would probably also ensure that special forces were also willing to perform precisely hidden soil operations such as penetrating or penetrate certain access points, said Tom Karako, also at CSIS.
However, Votel said that the Israelis were well positioned to carry out such operations themselves.
The US bases in the region would have to have their maximum standby level if Iran returns to every American strike, Karako added.
“If you have air defenses or rocket defense, you are in the queue and you have the signs and warning, and everyone is on the razors … So if and when Iran is able to tear down something,” he said.
In front of a strike, the United States would set up its power protection assets to ensure that in this case we have become a kind of direct fighter and drop weapons that we could do everything we could to protect our armed forces.
Supporting points in the Middle East would have to work with air defense and ground-based systems, which they already-a single Himars, several rocket launchers, because setting up other weapons would take too long.
Votel expects General Michael Kurilla, the Centcom Commander, all possible resources in the region before every strike, and would probably advise Trump to wait until they were available.
A strike on Fordow would be “a big step that I have obviously thought long and which could have some significant effects,” he said. “I think there is a good case for more resources in the region.”
