Quote:Over the weekend, the United States Department of War yanked all 12 of the B-1B (Bone) Lancer strategic bombers that had been based at the RAF Fairford base. This is the base that was the apparent target of a possible terror attack earlier in the week. The bombers were removed, according to U.S. officials as reported in a New York Times story, because of an unspecified threat from Iran.

The United States rushed over the weekend to withdraw all 12 B-1 Air Force bombers from an air base in southern England after commanders received new threats about an Iran-backed plot against the installation, two U.S. officials said on Sunday.

The withdrawal was highly unusual: Such moves are rarely made so quickly from an allied air base in a peacetime country thousands of miles from a combat zone.

The need to move the bombers out of the base, R.A.F. Fairford, was deemed so urgent that some of the planes and their flight crews left while aerial refueling aircraft were still being scrambled to support their flights to the United States. At least three of the planes had landed at their home base in South Dakota by Sunday, the officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters.

This move was carried out with alarming alacrity, which would cause one to believe that 1) any threat was deemed credible, and 2) if last week's attempt, for which six men of Iranian descent were arrested and quickly released, was attempting some kind of trial run. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is suspected to be involved in the plot.

The Pentagon has made a statement, which appeared Sunday in the Wall Street Journal.

“While operational security precluded us from confirming the movement of our assets and forces in real-time, we can acknowledge now that all U.S. bombers that were deployed to RAF Fairford have redeployed to their home stations in the United States,” the Pentagon said in a statement, adding that the U.S. bombers remain ready to carry out attacks from the U.S. The U.K. Ministry of Defense declined to comment.

In the initial phases of the war against Iran, both B-1 and B-52 bombers were based at RAF Fairford, due to its long runways that can handle a heavily loaded strategic bomber. The B-52s had already left, and most of the B-1 bombers had also redeployed to their home stations; these six which just departed were the last U.S. bombers on that base.

Now, here's the thing: While these bombers were removed with remarkable speed, the very fact that they were moved so quickly would seem to indicate that the threat was not only deemed credible, but also that the timeline for said threat means some action was imminent. And, while the Bones can hit targets in the Middle East from the United Kingdom without any difficulty, deploying them from their stateside bases to the other side of the world presents a much more complicated logistics problem.

Note also that any successful attack on any of our aircraft, if tracked back to the IRGC or the Iranian government, would likely warrant a kinetic response on the part of the United States, and by "kinetic response" we can safely substitute "a lot of stuff is going to be blown up."

And, again, this is a developing story. Stay tuned.

(10-04-2026 05:40 PM)umbluegray Wrote:  Saw a video where they stated US aircraft landing in Iran.

Maybe something's up.

(10-04-2026 06:58 PM)No Bull Wrote:  Britain is lost. So many Muslims we can’t count on them as an ally. Absolutely insane.

(10-04-2026 05:40 PM)umbluegray Wrote:  Saw a video where they stated US aircraft landing in Iran.

Maybe something's up.

(10-04-2026 07:09 PM)Todor Wrote:  

(10-04-2026 05:40 PM)umbluegray Wrote:  Saw a video where they stated US aircraft landing in Iran.

Maybe something's up.

Crash landing perhaps. The ones that haven’t been destroyed on one of the 13-15 US bases Iran obliterated have been shot down or destroyed in Iran proper.

We need to take any remaining planes out of the Middle East and put them where they sent all the US troops to hide.

Quote:The report is inaccurate on a key point. No verified US military plane landed in Iran. An unidentified C-130 (transponder off) touched down at Tehran’s Mehrabad today; Iran operates its own C-130 fleet, and claims of US origin or unfrozen funds are pure speculation.

B-1s were withdrawn from RAF Fairford back to the US, confirmed by the Pentagon, due to security threats after arrests near the base linked to a possible Iran-backed plot. This is a force protection move, not a war end or drawdown. The conflict continues.

(10-04-2026 07:12 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  

(10-04-2026 07:09 PM)Todor Wrote:  

(10-04-2026 05:40 PM)umbluegray Wrote:  Saw a video where they stated US aircraft landing in Iran.

Maybe something's up.

Crash landing perhaps. The ones that haven’t been destroyed on one of the 13-15 US bases Iran obliterated have been shot down or destroyed in Iran proper.

We need to take any remaining planes out of the Middle East and put them where they sent all the US troops to hide.

What!?!

(10-05-2026 04:19 AM)Gitanole Wrote:  That’ll shock and awe those Iranians.

(10-04-2026 07:24 PM)Todor Wrote:  

(10-04-2026 07:12 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  

(10-04-2026 07:09 PM)Todor Wrote:  

(10-04-2026 05:40 PM)umbluegray Wrote:  Saw a video where they stated US aircraft landing in Iran.

Maybe something's up.

Crash landing perhaps. The ones that haven’t been destroyed on one of the 13-15 US bases Iran obliterated have been shot down or destroyed in Iran proper.

We need to take any remaining planes out of the Middle East and put them where they sent all the US troops to hide.

What!?!

Well, they tucked and ran. They aren’t living on these bases, that’s for sure. Of course, CBS is only showing the photos (6 months later) that don’t look bad, but UAE, Kuwait, Jordan etc media have all been on or close to the destroyed bases and taken lots of photos that show the real destruction.

The powers that be, government, media, and others who rule us know the public isnt ready to see what actually happened, so it was glossed over and largely forgotten by the open mouth breathing public.

When asked how he could fly a drone taking photos right over an American base, a journalist from Jordan simply said, because there isn’t anyone there left to stop him.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-photos-damage-u-s-kuwait-saudi-arabia-iran-drone-missile-attacks/

(10-04-2026 07:09 PM)Todor Wrote:  

(10-04-2026 05:40 PM)umbluegray Wrote:  Saw a video where they stated US aircraft landing in Iran.

Maybe something's up.

Crash landing perhaps. The ones that haven’t been destroyed on one of the 13-15 US bases Iran obliterated have been shot down or destroyed in Iran proper.

We need to take any remaining planes out of the Middle East and put them where they sent all the US troops to hide.

(10-04-2026 06:58 PM)No Bull Wrote:  Britain is lost. So many Muslims we can’t count on them as an ally. Absolutely insane.

(10-05-2026 07:38 AM)b2b Wrote:  

(10-04-2026 07:24 PM)Todor Wrote:  

(10-04-2026 07:12 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  

(10-04-2026 07:09 PM)Todor Wrote:  

(10-04-2026 05:40 PM)umbluegray Wrote:  Saw a video where they stated US aircraft landing in Iran.

Maybe something's up.

Crash landing perhaps. The ones that haven’t been destroyed on one of the 13-15 US bases Iran obliterated have been shot down or destroyed in Iran proper.

We need to take any remaining planes out of the Middle East and put them where they sent all the US troops to hide.

What!?!

Well, they tucked and ran. They aren’t living on these bases, that’s for sure. Of course, CBS is only showing the photos (6 months later) that don’t look bad, but UAE, Kuwait, Jordan etc media have all been on or close to the destroyed bases and taken lots of photos that show the real destruction.

The powers that be, government, media, and others who rule us know the public isnt ready to see what actually happened, so it was glossed over and largely forgotten by the open mouth breathing public.

When asked how he could fly a drone taking photos right over an American base, a journalist from Jordan simply said, because there isn’t anyone there left to stop him.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-photos-damage-u-s-kuwait-saudi-arabia-iran-drone-missile-attacks/

We're never told the truth about anything.

(10-05-2026 11:05 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(10-05-2026 07:38 AM)b2b Wrote:  

(10-04-2026 07:24 PM)Todor Wrote:  

(10-04-2026 07:12 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  

(10-04-2026 07:09 PM)Todor Wrote:  Crash landing perhaps. The ones that haven’t been destroyed on one of the 13-15 US bases Iran obliterated have been shot down or destroyed in Iran proper.

We need to take any remaining planes out of the Middle East and put them where they sent all the US troops to hide.

What!?!

Well, they tucked and ran. They aren’t living on these bases, that’s for sure. Of course, CBS is only showing the photos (6 months later) that don’t look bad, but UAE, Kuwait, Jordan etc media have all been on or close to the destroyed bases and taken lots of photos that show the real destruction.

The powers that be, government, media, and others who rule us know the public isnt ready to see what actually happened, so it was glossed over and largely forgotten by the open mouth breathing public.

When asked how he could fly a drone taking photos right over an American base, a journalist from Jordan simply said, because there isn’t anyone there left to stop him.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-photos-damage-u-s-kuwait-saudi-arabia-iran-drone-missile-attacks/

We're never told the truth about anything.

This.

(10-05-2026 11:17 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(10-05-2026 11:05 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(10-05-2026 07:38 AM)b2b Wrote:  

(10-04-2026 07:24 PM)Todor Wrote:  

(10-04-2026 07:12 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  What!?!

Well, they tucked and ran. They aren’t living on these bases, that’s for sure. Of course, CBS is only showing the photos (6 months later) that don’t look bad, but UAE, Kuwait, Jordan etc media have all been on or close to the destroyed bases and taken lots of photos that show the real destruction.

The powers that be, government, media, and others who rule us know the public isnt ready to see what actually happened, so it was glossed over and largely forgotten by the open mouth breathing public.

When asked how he could fly a drone taking photos right over an American base, a journalist from Jordan simply said, because there isn’t anyone there left to stop him.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-photos-damage-u-s-kuwait-saudi-arabia-iran-drone-missile-attacks/

We're never told the truth about anything.

This.

And this is different how versus any other time in US history, specifically regarding geopolitical military matters?