BBC - Iran attacks damage 20 US military sites since start of war, satellite images show

[Swede]

Too bad there isn't an Investigative journalism show on a major American tv network. Maybe with a clocking ticking sound as it's opening?


Iran has damaged 20 US military sites since the start of the war, satellite images and videos analysed by BBC Verify show, suggesting the attacks are more extensive than publicly acknowledged.

Iran has targeted key facilities across eight countries in the Middle East since the end of February, causing millions of dollars of damage to state-of the-art air defence systems, refuelling aircraft and radars.

Tehran has targeted both US bases and shared military facilities in retaliation to the US-Israeli strikes across Iran and Lebanon over the past three months. The Pentagon says it has hit more than 13,000 targets in Iran since the start of Operation Epic Fury.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2l2yl7r8r2o

[Johnny2X2X]

1. It's been just a stunning rebuke of the idea our military is invulnerable

War is changing, you no longer need $250M bombers to inflict damage when you can get 100 drones for $1M.

The US military is still the strongest in the world, but the idea that it is all powerful and can just bomb endlessly without fear of taking any damage is gone. And that's a good thing IMO. The US is not the force for peace anymore, it's a bully, and the only way a bully will stop is if they're given a bloody nose.

We're trying to make peace with Iran, because they can do damage to our bases and assets in the region.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Iran has hit far more U.S. military assets than reported, satellite images show

Imagery published by Iranian state-affiliated media and verified by The Post shows damage to at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at U.S. military sites.

Not only have we lost the Hormuz, Trump and Kegsbreath are covering up how bad Iran has wrecked all of our bases in the region.

Once Democrats are in the majority, public oversight hearings will be needed to fully understand just how badly we lost this war.

— JonZoidberg (@jonzoidberg.xyz) 2026-05-08T01:27:47.286Z

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/05/06/iran-us-bases-satellite-images/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=1440&impolicy=high_res
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/05/06/iran-us-bases-satellite-images/

Iranian airstrikes have damaged or destroyed at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at U.S. military sites across the Middle East since the war began, hitting hangars, barracks, fuel depots, aircraft and key radar, communications and air defense equipment, according to a Washington Post analysis of satellite imagery. The amount of destruction is far larger than what has been publicly acknowledged by the U.S. government or previously reported.

The threat of air attacks rendered some of the U.S. bases in the region too dangerous to staff at normal levels, and commanders moved most of the personnel from these sites out of the range of Iranian fire at the start of the war, officials have said.
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...Satellite imagery of the Middle East is unusually difficult to acquire at present. Two of the largest commercial providers, Vantor and Planet, have complied with requests from the U.S. government — their biggest customer — to limit, delay or indefinitely withhold the publication of imagery of the region while the war is ongoing, making it difficult or impossible to assess Iran’s counterstrikes. Those restrictions began less than two weeks into the war. Vantor said its access-control decisions were made independently and were not mandated by the government.

Iranian state-affiliated news agencies, however, have from the start regularly published high-resolution satellite imagery on their social media accounts that claimed to document damage to U.S. sites.

For this examination — one of the first comprehensive public accounts of the damage to U.S. facilities in the region — The Post reviewed more than 100 high-resolution Iranian-released satellite images. The Post verified the authenticity of 109 of those images by comparing them with lower-resolution imagery from the European Union’s satellite system, Copernicus, as well as high-resolution images from Planet where available. The Post excluded 19 Iranian images from the damage analysis because comparisons with the Copernicus imagery were inconclusive. No Iranian imagery was found to have been manipulated.

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....But the review by The Post — based on images dating from the war’s start through April 14 — reveals that scores of additional targets were struck at the sites, which are predominantly used by the U.S. military but shared with the host nations’ military forces and allies.

The images show that airstrikes damaged or destroyed what appear to be numerous barracks, hangars or warehouses at more than half of the U.S. bases that The Post reviewed.
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Iran destroyed a good number of US bases in the region. trump and Hegseth are trying to hide the amount of damage. The costs estimates for this "war" do not include repairing or replacing these damaged facilities.