US military equipment worth billions of dollars destroyed in Iran war
Key takeaways
- The United States lost aerial equipment worth up to $2.8bn, according to a US-based think tank.
- The very next day, Iran fired missiles and drones that struck a US base in Saudi Arabia, wounding several US soldiers and destroying a radar surveillance plane that cost $700m.
- The CSIS estimate is the first detailed tabulation by a major international research group of US military losses in the war that began on February 28, and Al Jazeera is the first to report it.
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The United States lost aerial equipment worth up to $2.8bn, according to a US-based think tank.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo By Alia Chughtai Published On 30 Apr 202630 Apr 2026Speaking at a televised Cabinet meeting on March 26, the US secretary of defense boasted of US military successes against Iran in the ongoing war. “Never in recorded history has a nation’s military been so quickly and so effectively neutralised,” he said, seated next to US President Donald Trump.
The very next day, Iran fired missiles and drones that struck a US base in Saudi Arabia, wounding several US soldiers and destroying a radar surveillance plane that cost $700m.