# Photos reveal damage at U.S. bases

> New images show Iranian strikes damaged aircraft, barracks and vehicles at U.S. positions across the Middle East.
- Title: Photos reveal damage at U.S. bases · CBS News | Shortify
- Summary: New images show Iranian strikes damaged aircraft, barracks and vehicles at U.S. positions across the Middle East. The newly surfaced photos point to far…
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- Source: CBS News — https://cbsnews.com/news/new-photos-damage-u-s-kuwait-saudi-arabia-iran-drone-missile-attacks
- Author: Jonah  Kaplan
- Published: 2026-09-15T21:14:00+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: iran, military, middle east, pentagon, news
## Photos surface
CBS News obtained images showing damaged buildings and vehicles at several U.S. positions after Iranian missile and drone attacks.
## Troops broke silence
Active service members shared the images anonymously, citing tight military media rules and frustration over what Americans have not been told.

> This is major damage to our bases that hasn't been communicated to the American public
## A radar plane hit
At Prince Sultan Air Force Base in Saudi Arabia, one photo shows a Boeing E-3 Sentry with its tail cut from a burned fuselage.
## Defenses fell short
Other photos show gutted buildings and barracks beside intact cement T-walls, barriers built for ground threats that did little against air attacks.
## Kuwait sites scarred
Camp Buehring and Camp Arifjan in Kuwait also appear in the images, with destroyed trailers, damaged buildings and wrecked vehicles.
## Losses reached billions
A Pentagon inspector general report put equipment losses as high as $3.7 billion, including nearly 60 aircraft. The Pentagon did not comment.

> We're just watching them get destroyed.
## Key takeaway

The newly surfaced photos point to far wider damage from Iranian missile and drone attacks than the public had seen.