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BlueWavePsych

(3,335 posts)
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 02:29 AM 6 hrs ago

Photos show heavily damaged US radar jet at Saudi base

Source: BBC

Verified pictures show a US command and control aircraft has been destroyed at an air base in Saudi Arabia.

The pictures appear to have been first shared by a Facebook page carrying US military news. They show the E-3 Sentry aircraft appears to have been split in two.

We've confirmed the photos were taken at the Prince Sultan air base about 100km (62 miles) south-east of the Saudi capital Riyadh. Features seen in the pictures, including pylons, storage units and markings on paved areas, matched with satellite imagery.

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On Friday a US official told Reuters that 12 US personnel had been wounded, two of them seriously, in an Iranian military attack on the air base. The Wall Street Journal newspaper reported that at least two US refuelling aircraft were also damaged.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyd07m7e1xo



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Photos show heavily damaged US radar jet at Saudi base (Original Post) BlueWavePsych 6 hrs ago OP
Putin gave Iran tageting information..... AZ8theist 6 hrs ago #1
Way to go Donny! Botany 1 hr ago #2
"heavily damaged" ???? AverageOldGuy 1 hr ago #3
I believe it is what insurance adjusters call Miguelito Loveless 36 min ago #4

Botany

(77,309 posts)
2. Way to go Donny!
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 07:42 AM
1 hr ago

Hopefully no Americans were hurt or killed in the attack and none of our military personnel
or assets are made more vulnerable because that AWAC plane is out of commission. And
who provided the location of the AWAC plane to the Iranians? Trump’s good buddy Vlad Putin.

AverageOldGuy

(3,813 posts)
3. "heavily damaged" ????
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 08:24 AM
1 hr ago

Is that the way Hogsbreath described it?

That's a $700,000,000 EC-3 AWACS aircraft.

And it's NOT "heavily damaged" -- it's blown all to shit. Not even worth it to haul the carcass back to the Davis-Monthan boneyard.

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