Israel strikes Tehran

[AC&W]

31 minutes ago, uhhello said:

Could be just normal everyday ops.

Init qual check for the CO, and S1 for the Boom. 

[uhhello]

Twitter shows the tankers returning and B-2 flights continuing west 

[nunya]

Probably wouldn't be hard for one of the 17Xs to build an entire ADS-B strike package and send it east. Or build two and send one east and one west. Watch the twitterverse explode. 

[ClearedHot]

[nunya]

6 hours ago, uhhello said:

Twitter shows the tankers returning and B-2 flights continuing west 

News says they're headed to Guam, but Guam staging doesn't make a lot of sense to me unless it's just for theatrics.
Andersen-Tehran is only 800 miles less than Whiteman-Tehran and that's AFTER flying 6000nm to Guam.  
Maybe they avoid overflight dip issues in SEA vs Europe?

Edited 4 hours ago by nunya

[Sua Sponte]

9 hours ago, AC&W said:

Init qual check for the CO, and S1 for the Boom. 

If it's S1 for the Boom, the IB did all the refueling 🤣

[disgruntledemployee]

15 hours ago, BigE said:

What’s the moon cycle looking like over the next 2 weeks?  

Lookie lookie, seems I'm not the only one thinking along this line.  Posted today:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/iran-trump-taco-play/683271/

Quote: 

President Donald Trump is being pulled toward war in the Middle East by his predator’s eye for a victim’s weakness and his ego’s need to claim the work of others as his own. But since his “unconditional surrender” social-media post on Tuesday, other Trump instincts have asserted themselves: above all, his fear of responsibility.

Trump enjoys wielding power. He flinches from accountability. Days ago, Trump seemed to hunger for entry into Israel’s war. A dramatic victory seemed poised to tumble into somebody’s lap. Why not his? But as the hours passed, Trump reconsidered. Instead of acting, he postponed. He said that a decision would come within “two weeks.”

Time for diplomacy to work? Perhaps that might be the case in another administration. In this one, as attentive Trump watchers have learned, the “two weeks” promise is a way of shirking a decision altogether, whether on Russia sanctions (deadline lapsed June 11, without action), trade deals (deadline lapsed June 12, without result), or a much-heralded infrastructure program (deadline lapsed May 20, 2017, without action then or ever).