{"id":615734,"date":"2026-02-25T18:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/615734\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T18:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:44:10","slug":"us-sends-deadliest-fighter-jets-to-israel-as-iran-war-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/615734\/","title":{"rendered":"US sends deadliest fighter jets to Israel as Iran war looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Twelve American F-22 Raptor fighter jets landed at an Israel Air Force base on Tuesday evening as tensions in the Middle East continue to rise and uncertainty looms on the Iranian front.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The F-22 stealth jet, which is operated only by the United States, is considered the world\u2019s most advanced air superiority fighter. Although no longer in production, the aircraft is so highly classified that the US Department of Defense has not made it available for sale to any foreign government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The twin-engined aircraft made jointly by Lockheed Martin and Boeing is also capable of incorporating ground attack and electronic warfare. It is the latest addition to US forces assembling in the region in case of an attack on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Among the forces sent by the US to the region are the world\u2019s largest warship, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-887655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">USS Gerald R. Ford<\/a>, which is in the eastern Mediterranean. Open-source intelligence monitoring and publicly available flight data indicate that over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/defense-and-tech\/article-887873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">300 US military aircraft<\/a> are deployed across the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The strategic stationing of US forces, aircraft, and warships ahead of the next round of nuclear negotiations between the US and Iran, set for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-887821\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thursday in Geneva<\/a>, shows that Washington and Jerusalem are preparing for any possible outcome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in negotiations with [Iran],\u201d US President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/american-politics\/article-887783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> said during his State of the Union address on Tuesday, \u201cthey want to make a deal, but we haven\u2019t heard those secret words: \u2018We will never have a nuclear weapon.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cMy preference is to solve this problem through diplomacy. But one thing is certain, I will never allow the world\u2019s No. 1 sponsor of terror, which they are by far, to have a nuclear weapon, can\u2019t let that happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">During his address, Trump mentioned Operation Midnight Hammer, when the US used its B-2 bombers, alongside F-22s and F-35s, to target Iran\u2019s nuclear sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">While the B-2s were the stars of the June operation, the F-22 was essential to the success of the mission, as Trump later confirmed its participation even though no sorties had been detected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twelve American F-22 Raptor fighter jets landed at an Israel Air Force base on Tuesday evening as tensions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":615735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[19031,4389,263945,83,6089,99,3097,50,10372,67],"class_list":["post-615734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-aircraft","tag-defense-tech","tag-f-22","tag-iran","tag-iran-israel-war","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-spotlight","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116132751868610660","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}