Iranian attacks caused far greater damage to U.S. military bases and equipment in the Middle East than previously disclosed, anonymous government officials told NBC News this week.
“American military bases and other equipment in the Persian Gulf region suffered extensive damage from Iranian strikes that is far worse than publicly acknowledged and is expected to cost billions of dollars to repair, according to three U.S. officials, two congressional aides and another person familiar with the damage,” the outlet stated.
NBC cited six government sources (three U.S. officials, two congressional aides, and another individual with knowledge of the damage) who disclosed that repairs for U.S. assets damaged in the conflict with Iran will total billions of dollars.
The strikes damaged warehouses, command headquarters, aircraft hangars, satellite communications infrastructure, runways, sophisticated radar systems, and dozens of aircraft in the days following the Trump administration’s attack on Iran on February 28.
In a striking example, an Iranian F-5 jet bombed a U.S. base in Kuwait, evading air defenses and hitting its target
This was the first successful strike by an enemy fixed-wing aircraft on an American military base in several years.
