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B-2 Strikes on Iran Expose Limits of Elon Musk's 'Drone Swarms' Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. In the most ambitious U.S. stealth airstrike in decades, seven B-2 Spirit bombers flew 7,000 miles from Missouri to Iran over the weekend weekend, dropping more than a dozen 30,000-pound bunker-busting bombs on nuclear sites buried deep under rock and reinforced concrete. Codenamed Operation Midnight Hammer, the overnight mission relied on deception, aerial refueling, and near-total radio silence to hit Iran's Fordo and Natanz enrichment facilities—sites that had withstood weeks of sustained Israeli attacks. Pentagon officials called it a precision strike designed to "devastate" Iran's nuclear infrastructure and showcase America's global reach and resolve. While the world awaits any official damage assessments out of Fordo or Natanz, the mission has served as a real-world rebuttal to tech leaders like Elon Musk, who have claimed drones are making highly specialized aircraft like the B-2 an unnecessary expense for modern militaries. Inspired by Ukraine's success using drones to strike deep into Russian territory, Musk has mocked the Pentagon's reliance on manned stealth jets like the F-35, calling them outdated, vulnerable, and economically wasteful compared to "drone swarms." "Manned fighter jets are obsolete," he posted last year, adding that future wars would be won by fleets of cheap, autonomous drones. But when the U.S.
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