Multiple US military aircraft suffered damage in Iran’s retaliatory strikes on the US-run Muwaffaq Salti air base, also known as al-Azraq base, in Jordan, western media is reporting.
In an X post Wednesday, a CBS reporter said an American A-10 Thunderbolt (also called Warthog) was struck and left with a missing wing, while roughly eight F-15 fighter jets sustained damage.
“American forces in Jordan launched more than 30 Patriots missiles defending against the Iranian strikes,” the report noted, further proving several reports that months of war with Iran have diminished the US weapons stockpile and left the country with a depleted arsenal of interceptors.
Located roughly 100 kilometers from Jordan’s capital of Amman, the Muwaffaq Salti air base is a key facility used by terrorist US forces. It has been repeatedly targeted by Iran in reprisal for deadly US attacks on the Islamic Republic.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said its Aerospace Force had struck the Muwaffaq Salti air base with a missile barrage after the United States attacked several Iranian commercial and oil vessels.
It added that the operation, which targeted maintenance and repair hangars, aircraft preparation facilities, and shelters housing F-35, F-16, and F-15 warplanes, inflicted “heavy damage” on the enemy.
“Faced with the heroic and powerful naval forces of the IRGC in the Strait of Hormuz, the enemy, from a position of incapacity, helplessness, and weakness, resorted to desperate actions and immediately received a decisive response,” the elite military force said in a statement.
The United States and Israel launched their war against Iran on February 28.
Forty days later, on April 8, the two sides agreed on a ceasefire brokered Pakistan.
However, this did not last long as in July, the United States conducted waves of deadly air raids on Iran and imposed a naval blockade of Iran.
In response, the Iranian armed forces launched strikes against strategic American targets across West Asia and declared the Strait of Hormuz closed to all traffic.
