Having actually been there several years back I find this hard to believe, that base is pretty big. Can’t really see how or why Iran would have dumped enough on it to render it completely uninhabitable or unusable. I’d love to be wrong.
I find this hard to believe, that base is pretty big
I’m currently working in Qatar, and the first couple of days of those barrages we were hearing interceptors working almost as often as there were hours in the day; now take that, and know that Bahrain got it worse, MUCH worse. Unless it’s primarily built as a well protected underground system, I’d be genuinely surprised if it was still viable.
Having actually been there several years back I find this hard to believe, that base is pretty big. Can’t really see how or why Iran would have dumped enough on it to render it completely uninhabitable or unusable. I’d love to be wrong.
I’m currently working in Qatar, and the first couple of days of those barrages we were hearing interceptors working almost as often as there were hours in the day; now take that, and know that Bahrain got it worse, MUCH worse. Unless it’s primarily built as a well protected underground system, I’d be genuinely surprised if it was still viable.
It was really easy to hit, especially once the radars were down, so they hit it a lot
And I can see why the navy wouldn’t want to use the base again, turns out that location is utterly defenseless
All those far-out bases are indefensible, the only defense they rely on is “no one would dare to attack them”.
Which goes right out the window when you attack the most heavily armed country within 500km of your base.
That’s true, all those bases are. It’s just the US has fought nothing but dirt farmers with AKs in years and years.
Edit: BBC is corroborating.