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The damage inflicted by Iran on US military bases in the Persian Gulf region, including from a successful attack on a US base by an Iranian fighter jet, is far worse than publicly acknowledged by the White House, NBC News reported on 26 April.

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Most notably, an Iranian F-5 fighter jet successfully evaded layered US air defenses to bomb the US base Camp Buehring in Kuwait during the early days of the US-Israeli war on Iran, the NBC report stated.

The successful strike directly undermined US President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the Iranian Air Force had been “completely obliterated.”

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The last incident of an enemy warplane successfully hitting a major US military base reportedly occurred in 1953, during the Korean War. North Korea’s air force carried out a low-altitude night raid in April of that year that killed two US soldiers on Cho-do Island. For more than 70 years following that incident, the US maintained near-total air superiority over its military bases.

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    1 month ago

    I wonder if other countries have (or will have) their one genre of trashy books like in the USA where some outdated piece of military equipment magically gets transported to a future, technologically advanced, battlefield and saves the day?

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      1 month ago

      the monkey’s paw curls it’s one of those Boston Dynamics robot dogs they’re always kicking over and it defeats the Sasquatches because it’s immune to their main move.