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Photos that leaked online on March 29 confirmed that an American E-3G Sentry airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft was completely destroyed at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia as a result of an Iranian attack that took place two days earlier.
The attack saw the Islamic Republic firing at least six ballistic missiles and 29 suicide drones at the air base, located in the heart of the kingdom.
Prince Sultan has been serving as a major hub for American aerial operations against Iran, with at least six E-3G aircraft spotted there at one point.
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The E-3G is the latest modernized variant of the Boeing 707-based AEW&C. Featuring advanced radar, enhanced mission computing, and improved communications, it provides critical 360-degree, all-weather, long-range surveillance, battle management, and tracking to detect hostile, friendly, and neutral activity over land or water. The aircraft costs upwards of $300 millions, and is no longer in production.
The one destroyed at Prince Sultan carried the tail number “81-0005”. It belonged to the United States Air Force’s 552nd Air Control Wing, based at Tinker Air Force Base in the state of Oklahoma.
The Iranian attack on the air base wounded 15 American troops, including five seriously, according to the Associated Press.
Several other American aircraft which were parked on the tarmac of the air base next to the destroyed E-3G were also destroyed or damaged by the attack. Satellite images suggest that they are most likely KC-135 Stratotankers aerial refueling tankers. The KC-135, based on the Boeing 367-80 prototype, costs around $40 million.
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Prince Sultan has repeatedly come under fire since the start of the American-Israeli war on Iran a little bit over a month ago.
Earlier last week, 14 American troops were wounded as a result of an attack on the air base. An even earlier strike on the air base damaged five tankers, reportedly KC-135S, although President Donald Trump later stated that the aircraft took very little damage, and all but one in need for more repairs were flying again.
Despite their vast resources, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia have clearly both failed to protect the key air base, just 96 kilometers away from the capital, Riyadh.
The recent losses at Prince Sultan will have a direct impact on American aerial operations against Iran, at least to some extent.
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didn’t trump have claim numerous time that iran military capability has been destroyed
no .he didn’t he said they’ve sunk 130 navy ships ,eradicated their air force but admitted they had some missiles left. they didn’t get to explode them all .
good shot!!!
pot luck more like after losing 130 ships ,an entire air force and most of their missiles but don’t let the facts spoil your fantasies
hitting a target like that is not pot luck.
iran never had a modern air force to begin with, its small attack boats are safe in tunnels and 70% of their missiles still exist
at least the air commander was smart enough to not have parked those strato tankers straight in tehran. clever guy.
we’re not letting the facts spoil our entertainment at all, inbred.
and it isn’t ai either. so sad 😢
give that man a coconut! give him two coconuts!
more evidence i am genetically inferior—i am lucky that mr shekelstein let me scrub his toilets
we know its sad for you but at least you’re self-aware.
well done iran…..you are the lion of the world. keep those strikes coming. blow up all data centers of the the jews and amerikunts in the region
dodatkowo liczę, że w końcu prawdziwi zbrodniarze, którzy sterują mossadem, bankami, mediami i wojnami jak rothschild, rockeffeler lub baron szczepionkowy gates zostaną poddani najwyższej karze!
iran is fighting for all humanity against the satanic demonic joo filth and their goy whores.
this is the way like it. iran finishes off multi billion dollar usa airforces on the ground with drones and missiles. i wish saddam had such capabilities and strategy during operation desert storm. its a real missed oppertunity. i want to see all usa bases and their jets burn wherever they place them in the middle east. its time to end zionist american colonialism for good.
iranians unlike iraq and syria did prepare for the kind of war they are facing and they accurately target the places were it hurts the americans te most. i wish they would also take out diego garcia and finish off the usa aircraft carrier make it sink to the bottom of the ocean. such wins can end the war very quickly and also put an end to wars for israel and the americans letting themselves be used by the jews as their lapdogs.
the american public has a large movement that wants to end the war and end the zionist occupation of their government. if trump looses enough equipment a aircraft carrier or a couple of other big things like their jets parked in the runways that can finish his presidency at home and bring in his impeachment and end the war.
its time that all jews are removed from the usa government and its institutions. no more wars for the zionist colonialists.
i want to see the whole jews professional victim card erased. we whole west and world has to free its self from those lies and see how extremist and psychopathic jews really are and stop doing their bidding. put an end to all aid to israel and free palestine teach these jews that their apartheid colonist state is over and they have to share the land with the native population to the land the palestinians. there is only peace if they are fair and willing to share.
its also time that world wide the chabbad lubovich deathcult gets called out for what it is a deathcult and terrorist organization. it needs to be dealt with as such. its time to end the schneerson deathcult forever. its them who steer israel into this path of destruction and genocide. and they need to be punished for it.
the sneerson deathcult cabbad lubovich needs to be erased.
emperor bezos make me lick bibi peniz
as if he could hold you back from any peniz envy
not with a ‘stein’ in its’ name, that’s for sure.
kiedy zostaną zaatakowane miejsca, w których ukrywają się prawdziwy “zarządzający” wojnami jak rothschild, rockefeller, gates itd?
big joke right ? they got ond shot in .
they could always go for a sekud, or thord shot, or even a thwarth shot. 😀 🖕
at last
they should have done this attack like loooong ago
“just a little paint and it will be fine!” donald j.trumpf
well, about 60% of the plane is still relatively intact. i guess a lot of spare parts for the rest of the fleet. but the plane itself is ko. i am a bit deluded, i’d hope that also the wings burned.
but this means that the huge black smoke is another plane, maybe a kc-135 destroyed.
is that what he said? what a clever guy he is.
he said they’ve sunk 130 navy shipsa= and eradicated my virginity – bertrand the french
when this is over big don will be gone the country broke the dems will be in control your savings and pension lost and everybody will get same size check from government
same size digital credit
pentagon centcom : not destroyed only half damage, and wel still investigating the possibility of electrical short circuit
it wasn’t an iranian missile, it was a fire in the laundry area. those are some hardcore diapers.
enough to buy beans and you won’t need toilet paper you will have precut green pieces in your wallet the future don’t look to good
not impressive. iran and yemen must “visit” yanbu port on the red sea many times.
nice guy finish last.
flatten the kikenreich and their gulf quislkings! heheheh
nice guys are clever, bad ones are stupid though.
there are clever guys on both sides. the bad guys have a slight advantage since they wouldn’t flinch and can come from behind and stab you in the back or pull a dagger and slice your throat while you are negotiating and if you let your guard down.
the church of the holy sepulchre affront by the shetañahu demon must be avenged.
dearie dearie me chumpo’s little aeroplanes will need quite a bit of mending heheheh
us has 87 awacs left
the us air force has 14 operational e-3s as of march 2026, so it was a significant loss of aircraft of this class.
bulls eye. well done iran, one less aew&c to worry about.
these images were shared on farcebook so they were hardly leaked. the usadmin has never faced a foe quite like iran. their mistake is going to cost the us taxpayer a fortune just when they are already swimming in debt.
oh dear, all amerikunt radars are twisted scrap metal. oh dear all amerikunt awacs planes are a little bit f….d. dearie dearie me. better run fast to avoid those incoming missiles. oh dear.
leaked photo show sawyer w polo molo squirting jizz in my anuz
russian military personal is watching jelous at iran wondering why the iranians are allowed to shoot back while russia has to watch all those recon and command-planes and drones fly around ukraine and russia and steer “ukranian” drones and missiles to target them or russian infrastructure or just some random russian village/ town. since they are only allowed to shoot at ukrainians and since a couple months sometimes on western troops on ukrainian soil.
allahu akbar!! great news! finally somebody shoots back to usatan!
f-22’s still in the region or are they invisible to satellite data?
incompetent americaunts lack industrial capacity to replace this loss
more proof americunts are inferior transgender species