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Iran has responded to the U.S.-Israeli assault on the country<\/a> by launching drones and missiles at American targets across the Middle East, hitting embassies, killing U.S. soldiers, and damaging military bases and air defense infrastructure.<\/p>\n The New York Times has identified at least 17 damaged U.S. sites and other installations, several of which have been struck more than once since the war began. Our analysis is based on high-resolution, commercial satellite imagery, verified social media videos and statements by U.S. officials and Iranian state media.<\/p>\n The intensity of the retaliatory strikes has signaled that Iran was more prepared for the war than many in the Trump administration had anticipated, U.S. military officials say.<\/p>\n For this article, we are presenting satellite images to show the scale of the damage from Iran\u2019s attacks on U.S. sites and installations. Many of these images have been circulating publicly on news sites and social media. But in cases where they have not been, we present the imagery we obtained from satellite image companies and show only a zoomed-out view of each location to limit the amount of detail viewable in those images.<\/p>\n Military sites<\/p>\n Iran has fired thousands of missiles and drones at both U.S. and allied country military sites across the region. The United States and its allies have intercepted most of them, U.S. officials say, but at least 11 American military bases or installations have been damaged \u2014 nearly half of all such sites in the region.<\/p>\n On Feb. 28, the first day of conflict, Iran targeted several U.S. military facilities, including Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia; Ali Al Salem Air Base and Camp Buehring Base in Kuwait; and Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the largest U.S. base in the Middle East.<\/p>\n Satellite images show extensive damage to buildings and communication infrastructure at several locations.<\/p>\n Ali Al Salem, Kuwait Camp Arifjan, Kuwait Shuaiba port, Kuwait Camp Buehring, Kuwait U.S. Navy 5th Fleet HQ, Bahrain Prince Sultan, Saudi Arabia Jebel Ali port, U.A.E. Muwaffaq Salti, Jordan Erbil Airport, Iraq A video taken on March 1 shows an Iranian drone exploding near sports facilities at Camp Buehring in Kuwait. No casualties were reported.<\/p>\n Camp Buehring, Kuwait It is difficult to estimate the full cost of damage inflicted by Iran\u2019s retaliatory strikes. A Pentagon assessment provided to Congress last week put the cost of the single strike on the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain on Feb. 28 at about $200 million, according to a congressional official.<\/p>\n On March 1, an Iranian drone struck a structure housing military personnel at the Shuaiba port in Kuwait, killing six American<\/a> service members<\/a>.<\/p>\n Satellite imagery shows the roof of that building partially collapsed.<\/p>\n Shuaiba port Shuaiba port An additional U.S. service member<\/a> was killed in a separate Iranian strike on March 1 at a U.S. base in Saudi Arabia, bringing the toll to seven, the Pentagon said on Sunday.<\/p>\n The pace of Iranian attacks has slowed since the war\u2019s opening days, but the strikes have continued. Al Udeid Air Base, Ali Al Salem Air Base, Al Dhafra Air Base, Camp Buehring and the Navy\u2019s Fifth Fleet headquarters have all been struck more than once.<\/p>\n Missiles launched from Iran have flown as far away as Turkey. On March 4, NATO intercepted an Iranian ballistic missile<\/a> headed toward Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, according to a senior U.S. military official. The base hosts a large U.S. Air Force contingent. Iran\u2019s military denied firing the missile.<\/p>\n A second Iranian missile<\/a> entered Turkish airspace and was shot down by NATO, according to a Turkish defense ministry statement<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n Air defense and communication infrastructure<\/p>\n Among the costliest American losses to infrastructure have been to the air defense systems that protect U.S. and allied interests across the Middle East.<\/p>\n Iran has systematically targeted radar and communications systems, including components of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, known as THAAD, which uses a radar to track and intercept incoming aerial threats throughout the region.<\/p>\n At Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, an important hub for the U.S. Air Force in Jordan<\/a>, satellite imagery from February shows radar equipment at the base\u2019s southern edge. An image taken two days after the war began shows severe damage to what appears to be an air defense sensor.<\/p>\n Military budget and contract documents indicate a single radar unit of this type can cost up to half a billion dollars.<\/p>\n Muwaffaq Salti, Jordan A video from Feb. 28 shows an Iranian drone striking the headquarters of the U.S. Navy\u2019s Fifth Fleet in Manama, Bahrain, damaging what appears to be a communications radome, a weatherproof cover that protects radar and communication equipment.<\/p>\n Gulf nations have also bought air defense equipment from American companies and deployed them near critical infrastructure, including oil refineries. Those foreign radar systems share information with the U.S. military, forming what defense analysts describe as a de facto, expanded U.S. military sensor network.<\/p>\n Iran has targeted such sites where air defense equipment was recently observed, like the Al Ruwais facility in the United Arab Emirates. Satellite imagery of the site from last year shows a THAAD unit near storage structures.<\/p>\n A satellite image taken after Iranian attacks shows significant damage to the storage structures. The Times was unable to verify whether the mobile THAAD unit was inside the storage structures at the time of the strikes.<\/p>\n
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