The head of the Pentagon has sent additional US Air Force aircraft to the Middle East

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has sent additional Air Force aircraft to reinforce the Pentagon's naval forces in the Middle East. This was reported by the Reuters news agency on Wednesday, April 2.

By order of Hegseth, an aircraft carrier strike group led by the Harry Truman will remain in the region and will be reinforced with aircraft.

According to US officials, we are talking about at least four B-2 bombers. They were relocated to the US-British military base on Diego Garcia Island in the Indian Ocean, the newspaper writes.

The Pentagon stressed that the United States and its partners are ready to respond to any attempts by states or non-state actors to destabilize the situation in the region.

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