Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine delivered a technically precise account of one of the campaign’s most consequential strike operations on Thursday, confirming that American forces had deployed five-thousand-pound penetrator weapons against underground storage facilities in Iran housing coastal defense cruise missiles and associated military equipment
Weapons engineered specifically to defeat the hardened concrete and rock barriers that Iran had used to shelter its most critical military assets from aerial attack.
Speaking alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon, Caine offered the disclosure as part of a broader operational update intended to demonstrate that the campaign was not only expanding in scale but evolving in sophistication, with American forces now striking deeper into Iranian territory and engaging targets that had previously been shielded by layers of physical fortification. See More In Details…