One hundred hours into Operation “Epic Fury,” the United States has pushed its air war on Iran into overdrive, unleashing B‑52 heavy bombers in a rolling wave of strikes on ballistic missile batteries and command‑and‑control centres deep inside the country.

Newly released cockpit and satellite footage shows the lumbering Stratofortresses dropping volleys of precision‑guided munitions from high altitude, their cruise missiles streaking hundreds of kilometres to slam into hardened launch sites, radar farms and buried communications hubs that feed Iran’s missile network. Huge secondary explosions light up the night as fuel depots and warhead bunkers go up in fireballs.

Pentagon officials say more than 400 “high‑value” targets tied to Iran’s ballistic arsenal have been hit since Epic Fury began, including underground storage tunnels, mobile launcher parks and regional command posts used to coordinate drone and rocket attacks on US forces, Israel and Gulf allies. The goal, they insist, is clear: “shatter the spine” of Iran’s long‑range strike capability before it can be fully unleashed.

Tehran dismisses those claims as “wishful thinking,” insisting many missiles were dispersed before the bombardment and vowing that “new salvos” will prove Iran’s arsenal remains intact. But analysts poring over impact imagery say the damage to key nodes in Iran’s command‑and‑control web is undeniable — and warn that, as B‑52s keep circling over the horizon, the war is now locked in a race between how fast Iran can reload and how hard the US is willing to hit to keep it down.