{"id":309712,"date":"2026-02-25T15:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/309712\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T15:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:46:07","slug":"us-sends-deadliest-fighter-jets-to-israel-as-iran-war-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/309712\/","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 is largely considered the best fighter jet on Earth due to its unmatched speed and stealth. The aircraft is so highly revered that the US Department of Defense prohibits its license or sale to any foreign government to ensure the US maintains its military qualitative edge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The aircraft is capable of incorporating ground attacks and electronic warfare, with a weapons system built by Lockheed Martin.<\/p>\n<p>The F-22 fleet is the latest addition to the US arsenal amassed in the region over the last few weeks, which has included sending the world&#8217;s largest aircraft carrier, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-887655\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USS <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-887655\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gerald R. Ford<\/a>, to Israel\u2019s coast.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, open-source intelligence monitoring and publicly available flight data indicate that over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/defense-and-tech\/article-887873\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">300 US military aircraft<\/a> are currently 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, scheduled for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-887821\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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: &#8216;We will never have a nuclear weapon.\u2019\u201d<\/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 launched B-2 bombers, alongside F-22 and F-35 aircraft, to target Iran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">While the B-2 bombers were the stars of the June operation, the F-22 fighter aircraft was essential to the success of the mission, as President Trump later confirmed the fleet\u2019s participation even though no launches 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":2,"featured_media":309713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28298,17469,56537,85,87,91,46,47,43,3064,1032],"class_list":{"0":"post-309712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-aircraft","9":"tag-defense-tech","10":"tag-f-22","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-iran-israel-war","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-middle-east","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-spotlight","18":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}