"America was not prepared for defense." Photos showing the consequences of Iranian strikes on US bases have been published
These images were released after a Pentagon watchdog agency announced in its report that hundreds of buildings and structures at American bases in the Middle East were damaged and destroyed as a result of Iranian strikes.
"America was not prepared for defense." Photos showing the consequences of Iranian strikes on US bases have been published
The American television company CBS has obtained footage showing the scale of destruction at a number of US facilities in the Middle East following Iranian strikes.
The photographs, provided by military personnel, show a radar aircraft split in two, flattened trailers, and a severely damaged building.
These undated photographs were taken at US bases and facilities in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
One of the military personnel told the TV channel anonymously: "These are serious damages caused to our bases, and the American public has not been informed about this. We were [as if] standing there with our eyes closed and taking hits to our faces."
A photo taken at the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia shows a Boeing E-3 Sentry aircraft split in two, with its tail section crumpled and crushed.
Although there is no date on the photographs, it was confirmed in March this year that a similar aircraft had been struck and destroyed.
Boeing E-3 AWACS early warning aircraft are used to detect and track potential targets at long ranges.
At the time, a US official told Reuters that 12 American soldiers were injured, two of them in serious condition, as a result of the Iranian attack on the airbase.
Two other undated photos, believed to have been taken at the Buehring base in Kuwait, depict destroyed trailers and a tent-like structure with a roof riddled with holes and engulfed in smoke.