Iran Has Destroyed Mindblowing Number of U.S. Military Bases; More than half of the U.S.’s military sites in the Middle East have been damaged by Iranian strikes.

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**In Brief:**

* The majority of the United States’ military positions in the Middle East have been damaged by Iranian strikes, according to a CNN investigation released Friday.
* At least 16 American installations across eight countries have been struck as part of Iran’s retaliatory strikes against the U.S. and Israel’s military onslaught. A U.S. source familiar with the situation told CNN that **the scale of the damage was unprecedented.** “I’ve never seen anything like this before.… These are rapid, targeted strikes, with [advanced] technology,” the source said.
* **The main targets appeared to be multi-million dollar aircraft. At the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, a Boeing E-3 Sentry aircraft, which provides surveillance, command, control, and communications to the U.S. military, was destroyed. That aircraft is worth nearly half a billion dollars, and is currently out of production.**
* Other targets of Iranian strikes include critical communications systems.  **Radar systems will also prove the most difficult to replace. “Our radar systems are our most expensive and our most limited resource in the region,” a congressional aide familiar with damage assessments told CNN.**

This explains why Hegseth is trying to bum additional money for military housing. Iran destroyed our existing housing.

Destroyed is a bit of a contentious term to be bandying about. Inoperable, perhaps.

Edit:-
Let’s just go through this:-

Qatar (Umm Dahal / Al-Udeid Air Base): A $1.1 billion AN/FPS-132 early-warning radar was struck and damaged on the first day of the conflict

Base not destroyed.

Jordan (Muwaffaq Salti Air Base): An AN/TPY-2 radar (part of the THAAD system) was reportedly destroyed, with imagery showing debris and a blackened site.

Base not destroyed.

Saudi Arabia (Prince Sultan Air Base): Strikes hit a building near a radar dome, and imagery showed smoke rising from a THAAD radar component.

Base not destroyed.

United Arab Emirates (Al Sader & Al Ruwais): Multiple THAAD radar facilities were hit; satellite imagery confirmed damage to high-end AN/TPY-2 systems.

Base not destroyed.

Kuwait (Camp Arifjan): Three radomes (protective radar enclosures) were confirmed damaged or destroyed.

Base not destroyed.

Bahrain (U.S. Fifth Fleet HQ): Two satellite communications terminals (AN/GSC-52Bs) and multiple radomes were destroyed.

Base not destroyed.

Claiming destruction of the bases is hyperbolic.

#1 “Destroyed” is ridiculous hyperbole. #2 We have bases all over Europe that we can – (checks recent news articles), ummm, nevermind.

Winning

They couldn’t even manage to keep the goalposts in one place during the course of the headline here.

So
much
winning!

🏆

with all those sweet contracts to rebuild the bases, the same people who started the war get to profit from the war

delusional dreams of victory on all sides of the black spice war

“Damaging” and “destroying” are two vastly different terms when it comes to military assets.

The drone could hit the side of a building, explode, tear off a piece of the building but not have any effect on operations. That would be “damaging” but in no way “destroying”.

Iran is striking our bases and killing our soldiers in a war that should have never happened. That is a very big deal. But that headline has been written so we must move on to the next clickbait headline.

damaged vs destroyed…two very different meanings

This is the results trump wanted. To reduce the u.s. military in the region, so Russia can be the superpower there

I’m wondering about US casualties. I would not put it past this administration to lie about the numbers.