The US Air Force has transferred two more B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers to the British air base of Furford to participate in strike operations against Iran.
This was reported by AFP, citing data from the aviation resource Military Air Tracking Alliance (MATA).
The planes arrived in England on Saturday after a transatlantic flight from the "Barksdale" air base in Louisiana. On Thursday, three B-1B Lancer strategic bombers from the "Minot" air base were also transferred there in the state of North Dakota.
There are now 23 American heavy bombers based in the UK, including 15 B-1B Lancer aircraft and eight B-52H Stratofortress.
These strategic bombers carry out daily strikes on targets in Iran. Each aircraft can carry 24 900-kilogram JDAM homing bombs with a range of up to 20 km or 12 JASSM cruise missiles with a range of about 300 km.
The munitions are used to strike the most important and large sites in Iran, in particular protected sites for the deployment, storage and production of ballistic missiles.