Herr Trump is an incredibly incompetent fool. Iran had numerous trucks lined up taking....

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23. More than just telegraphing the movements, they were literally broadcasting it in real time

With very few exceptions, aircraft in US airspace have to be equipped with and USING a system called ADS-B. That broadcasts altitude, airspeed, location, climbing, descending, etc. It's purpose is to help pilots and controllers maintain awareness of the aircraft around them and what they are doing. Great for traffic separation in a non combat environment, awful for combat aircrews being shot at.

Because of that, military aircraft are allowed to turn off ADS-B. The US WANTED them to see those B-2s moving to Guam, that is apparent from the fact that Flight Tracker sites were following them using ADS-B data. We were using that to draw attention to the bombers moving to Guam. Normally a diversion like that can be a useful tactic. In this case not so much. It made the strikes somewhat safer for the crews that actually flew the missions (round trip from the states - wow, long haul), because people weren't looking at them. But it announced in advance that this strike had a high probability of happening.

The Iranians saw all this and moved as much as they could offsite before the attack happened. They may have seen it as a diplomatic bluff (doubtful, Trump's not that subtle) but they would have prepared for it anyway. Even so, that little fake was probably seen as the real thing by Iran because Krasnov had been tweeting about it for weeks and had likely prepared for it well before the actual attack.