Tehran claimed the strike demonstrated capabilities for long-distance attacks, with Diego Garcia the same distance from Iran as much of central Europe.
  • Aqarius
    16·
    19 hours ago

    “claiming capabilities” is a weird way to talk about something someone did.

  • apftwb
    20·
    2 days ago

    The Diego Garcia base in the middle of the Indian ocean.

    2000 miles away from Iran. A similar attack with the same distance could reach Germany, but maybe not the UK mainland.

    Diego Garcia was rumored to be being used as a forward operating base of the B2s. The idea being is that they were safe from being attacked while on the ground due to distance. There goes that plan.

    Neither missile hit the base, it added, though neither Iran nor the U.K. specified how close the missiles came to Diego Garcia.

  • Bloomcole
    101·
    2 days ago

    Funny, the US is the other way around.
    Claiming capabilities they only have in their imagination.