US President Donald Trump says that in the second rescue mission to extract the downed weapons system officer, Washington deployed 155 aircraft, including four bombers, 64 fighters, 48 refuelling tankers and 13 rescue aircraft, among others.
“A lot of it was subterfuge,” Trump says. “We wanted to have them (Iranian forces) think he (the downed airman) was in a different location, because they had a vast military force out there … so we wanted them to look in different areas.”
