Stealth bombers landing at UK bases 'in days' after Trump pressures Starmer: report

American stealth bombers are expected to onshore astatine U.K. subject bases wrong days to articulation the U.S.-Israel run against Iran, according to reports.

Citing unnamed elder Western officials, The Telegraph reported Wednesday that aerial bases astatine Diego Garcia successful the Indian Ocean and RAF Fairford successful Gloucestershire are being readied for the accomplishment of B-2 Spirit stealth bombers — the $2 cardinal strategical bomber is besides known arsenic the world's astir costly aircraft.

The bombers are understood to beryllium landing astatine the U.K. bases "in a substance of days" arsenic Washington intensifies operations successful the region, the outlet reported.

As antecedently reported by Fox News Digital, the U.S. subject utilized stealth B-2 bombers to onslaught Iranian ballistic rocket facilities Feb. 28 arsenic portion of the motorboat of Operation Epic Fury.

Diego Garcia is simply a strategical Indian Ocean basal hosting 2,500 US subject personnel. (Reuters)

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed that B-2 stealth bombers, which were equipped with 2,000-pound bombs, struck Iranian "hardened" ballistic rocket sites.

The U.S. was cleared to usage British bases for constricted strikes connected Iran’s rocket capabilities connected Feb. 29 aft Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed disconnected connected the plan, and portion U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey stated Britain had "stepped up alongside the Americans."

Starmer said the authorization was granted to support U.K. and U.S. allies arsenic the struggle escalated. He had antecedently said helium would not let American forces to usage U.K. bases for violative operations successful the region.

Tensions person since been heightened successful the U.K. by information incidents successful Cyprus. RAF Akrotiri, a cardinal British subject basal connected the island, was struck by a suspected drone connected March 2, causing insignificant damage.

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Several B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers are seen connected a runway astatine the Whiteman Air Force Base.  (Whiteman Air Force Base)

The unmanned craft was reported to lucifer an Iranian-made Shahed drone, akin to models utilized by Russia successful Ukraine and by Tehran’s determination proxies.

The Ministry of Defense said force-protection measures were astatine the "highest level" and that the basal had taken steps to support personnel. About 4,000 work members and their families are based astatine RAF Akrotiri.

The U.S. State Department raised its question advisory for Cyprus to Level 3, urging Americans to reconsider question due to the fact that of the menace of equipped struggle and constricted consular assistance successful parts of the country.

Non-emergency embassy unit and household members were authorized to leave. Officials said the advisory alteration reflected adjustments successful embassy operations alternatively than a nonstop alteration successful underlying risk.

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President Donald Trump blasted British Prime Minister Keir Starmer March 3, 2026, saying "this is not Winston Churchill we are dealing with," amid a deficiency of enactment for the United States’ and Israel’s associated subject cognition against Iran. (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images ; PA Images via Getty Images ; Jonathan Brady/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

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Trump had called Britain "uncooperative" and slammed Starmer arsenic "not Winston Churchill" aft Starmer initially rebuffed a U.S. petition to usage U.K. bases to onslaught Iran, according to The Associated Press.

Trump has besides condemned Britain’s statement to manus implicit the Chagos Islands, location to the Diego Garcia base, to Mauritius.

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