00:00The president directed, and I quote, Operation Epic Fury is approved, no aborts, good luck, close quote.
00:07Across the globe, our operations centers came alive in Tampa, Florida, here at the Pentagon, and of course forward in
00:14the Central Command AOR.
00:15More than 100 aircraft launched from land, sea, fighters, tankers, airborne early warning, electronic attack, bombers from the states, and
00:24unmanned platforms forming a single synchronized wave.
00:29At 15.38, 3.38 p.m., on Friday, February 27th, the United States Central Command, through the Secretary of
00:39War, received the final go order from President Trump.
00:42The president directed, and I quote, Operation Epic Fury is approved, no aborts, good luck, close quote.
00:50In the region, every element of the Joint Force made their final preparations.
00:54Air defense batteries readied themselves, checking their systems to respond to Iranian attacks.
01:01Pilots and crews rehearsed their strike packages for the final time.
01:05Air crews began loading their final weapons, and two carrier strike groups began to move towards their launching points.
01:12Across the globe, our operations centers came alive in Tampa, Florida, here at the Pentagon, and of course forward in
01:19the Central Command AOR.
01:20As always, operational security was paramount, as we sought to maintain and sustain the element of surprise.
01:30This operation was highly classified so that at H-hour, the enemy would see one thing, speed, surprise, and violence
01:38of action.
01:39The first movers were U.S. Cybercom and U.S. Spacecom, layering non-kinetic effects, disrupting and degrading and blinding
01:48Iran's ability to see, communicate, and respond.
01:52At H-hour, the beginning of major combat operations, 0-1-15 local Eastern Daylight Time, 9-45 local AM
02:03Tehran Time, as dawn crept up across the Central Command AOR, the skies surged to life.
02:10More than 100 aircraft launched from land, sea, fighters, tankers, airborne early warning, electronic attack, bombers from the states, and
02:19unmanned platforms, forming a single, synchronized wave.
02:24This was a daylight strike based on a trigger event conducted by the Israeli Defense Forces, enabled by the U
02:32.S. intelligence community.
02:33The first shooters at sea were tomahawks, unleashed by the United States Navy, closed in on Iranian naval forces, and
02:41began to conduct strikes across the southern flank in Iran.
02:45On the ground, forces fired precision, standoff weapons, measured, deliberate, precise, and lethal.
02:53This was a massive, overwhelming attack across all domains of warfare, striking more than 1,000 targets in the first
03:0124 hours.
03:02We are now roughly 57 hours into the operation.
03:07In the initial phase, CENTCOM's focus was systematic targeting of Iranians' command and control infrastructure, naval forces, ballistic missile sites,
03:18and intelligence infrastructure, designed to daze and confuse them.
03:23Coordinated space and cyber operations effectively disrupted communications and sensor networks across the area of responsibility, leaving the adversary without
03:35the ability to see, coordinate, or respond effectively.
03:39The combined impact of these strikes, swift, precise, and overwhelming, has resulted in the establishment of local air superiority.
03:47This air superiority will not only enhance the protection of our forces, but also allow them to continue the work
03:55over Iran.
03:57Over the course of the last two days, the Joint Force has launched hundreds of missions from land and sea
04:03and delivered tens of thousands of pieces of ordnance.
04:07The effort continues to scale.
04:09This included American B-2 bombers, which again, similar to Midnight Hammer, flew a 37-hour round-trip sortie from
04:17the continental United States, dropping precision, penetrating munitions on Iranian underground facilities across the southern flank and slightly deeper.
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