Iran Severely Damaged US Air Ops Center in Qatar Soon After War Began
Iranian missiles severely damaged the U.S. CAOC at Al Udeid, though operations had shifted to Shaw Air Force Base.
Air & Space Forces Magazine reports that multiple Iranian missiles hit the Combined Air Operations Center at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar early in the U.S.-Iran war. The facility was reportedly not in use, no injuries were reported, and the air campaign continued from Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina. The incident raises questions about rebuilding, hardening, dispersing, and networking forward command nodes under missile and drone threats.
An exclusive report by Air & Space Forces Magazine reveals that the U.S. military's Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar was struck by multiple Iranian missiles in the early phase of the U.S.-Iran war, leaving the facility severely damaged and inoperable. For more than two decades this command center was responsible for planning and executing numerous U.S. air operations across the Middle East, including in Afghanistan and Iraq, against ISIS, and most recently against the Yemen Houthis. The report stresses, however, that the facility was not in use when the attack occurred, and no casualties were reported.
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