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News & Current Events May 6, 2026 at 3:09 PM

Iran hit more U.S. military targets than has been reported, satellite imagery shows

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Quick_Beam May 6, 2026 +207
[paywall bypass archive link](https://archive.ph/nuWrF)
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Oraxy51 6 days ago +11
Thank you for saving me the process
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Royal-Hunter3892 May 6, 2026 +1231
I think so far the biggest target Iran was able to hit was the radar at the US naval base in Bahrain HQ of US fifth fleet . This radar was labelled as the billion dollar radar in newspapers headlines.
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ninjaluvr May 6, 2026 +1678
* They've taken out the AN/FPS-132 Early Warning Radar we have in Qatar at a cost of $1.1billion * They've taken out 4 AN/TPY-2 THAAD Radars in Jordan, UAE, and Saudi Arabia with cost estimates between $500 million and $1 billion * They have taken out, and continue to take out, 24 U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones costing $720 million. * They destroyed two AN/GSC-52B terminals SATCOM terminals costing nearly $150 million * They've taken out an F-15E Strike Eagle costing roughly $90 million * They've taken out an A-10 Thunderbolt II costing nearly $120 million * 2 MC-130J Hercules transport planes costing $200 million * 4 MH-6/AH-6 Little Bird special operations helicopters cost roughly $20 million * Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS costing $1 billion * Numerous US military bases have been hit with early conservative estimates for cost at over $5 billion * U.S. Navy 5th Fleet Headquarters (Bahrain) * Al Udeid Air Base (Qatar) * Al Dhafra & Al Ruwais Air Bases (UAE) * Prince Sultan Air Base (Saudi Arabia) * Camp Buehring (Kuwait) * Ali Al Salem Air Base (Kuwait) * Muwaffaq Salti Air Base (Jordan) * Erbil Air Base (Iraq) This is unprecedented in scope and cost. I can't stress this enough. The US hasn't seen losses like this since possibly WW2 or Korea. The sheer cost of the high tech equipment they've successfully targeted is breath taking. And I haven't even included the cost of the weaponry we've launched at them. I haven't even factored in how we've depleted our stockpiles to dangerous levels, leaving us with little options if another front were to open anywhere. Iran is still a powerful threat.
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Ja3k_Frost May 6, 2026 +647
Something you might want to look into a bit further about all this destroyed machinery is beyond the cost, simple how many of these machines exist. It’s my understanding that the US only has 8 THAAD radars in the world. That’s it. We can put a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars on one of these but that’s honestly secondary when talking about the US military budget which is basically a blank check anyways. What’s more important is the fact that what some of these machines do is literally irreplaceable in any meaningful amount of time.
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ninjaluvr May 6, 2026 +498
We also have very few Boeing E-3 Sentry planes. We've never lost one before, until Trump.
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BooksandBiceps 6 days ago +310
Best part is this piss poor planning. All these static radars or planes sitting on the ground within range probably would’ve fared better if he hadn’t just tried to f*** Iran like it was some 14 year old girl.
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mdlinc 6 days ago +113
13yo known, thus far.
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Running-With-Cakes 6 days ago +32
Someone said Iran, Trump thought 14 year old girl, don’t mind if I do
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whatsamattafuhyou 6 days ago +21
Wikipedia says the US has 14 operational E-3s. Af.mil says they cost $270M.
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ijakei2000 6 days ago +65
That’s what they cost to build decades ago. The replacement value today is upward of $750 million
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ninjaluvr 6 days ago +27
That is what they cost. Now look into what it will cost to replace one.
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whatsamattafuhyou 6 days ago +11
I’ve seen the $1B number a bunch, but I haven’t seen a source. Doesn’t change the main overall point. I just got curious about the numbers.
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Mirria_ 6 days ago +8
They were supposed to be replacing them with E-7 Wedgetails that have electronically phased array radars that can continuously track hundreds of signals at once... but they decided to launch and rely on spy sats for battlefield C&C *The wedge-tailed eagle is the largest bird of prey in Australia, with a wingspan that can reach over 9 feet wide*
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prancing_moose 6 days ago +5
That was so surprising to me, the E-7 Wedgetail would have been a logical successor to the USAF E-3. Australia was the launch customer, but the RAF also selected the E-7 to replace their E-3Ds, with Turkey and South Korea now also operating E-7s.
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BooksandBiceps 6 days ago +2
Two are down. I questioned it too but the average cost is \~500-600M, and after looking it up the guys grammar just sounded off but would’ve been correct given he said AWAC’s (compared to when he said specific numbers for other stuff)
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Jealous_Response_492 May 6, 2026 +190
Similar story with the stockpiles of missiles and interceptors, stockpiles built up over decades. This Iran folly is likely the USA's single largest strategic mistake.
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MotherTurdHammer 6 days ago +208
The largest strategic mistake was putting this moron anywhere near the levers of power.
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Jealous_Response_492 6 days ago +142
Americans were warned, Project 2025, was well discussed on US and international media, as was the fanatical desires or Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the other Technocracy fanatics openly backing Trump. That, and the complete lack of any opposition, the rest of us beyond the US, can only conclude it's what the Americans want.
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kurtcop101 6 days ago +29
Propaganda machines. Americans don't want this (as a whole) but most don't understand what they're actually voting for. They fall for propaganda. Happening elsewhere, but the trend seems to have slowed because Trump is such a farce, it's holding back anyone who had aligned with him in other countries.
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Jealous_Response_492 6 days ago +23
This is perhaps the one silver lining, here in Europe we can point across the pond and state, is that really what you want‽ Obviously, we'd prefer that the whole relatively stable world order wasn't been turned upside down, but we have to deal with the world we have, not the one we'd want.
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Whodatlily 6 days ago +11
Yea I've recently heard a few things stating how Trump's agenda is essentially furthering the opposite of everything he stands for moving forward. Oil/gas is incredibly expensive now so renewable energies are going to be looked into more. He's pissing off the rest of the world so now the United States grip on the world is slipping because most countries don't trust us or want to do business anymore, he might actually be unifying the rest of the world in ways. After the fact we hopefully can see reform in American government so future Presidents can't do this shit and the country learns a lesson. If not he's at least exponentially pushed the country ahead towards an internal conflict that would have to happen at some point. Things suck right now, so I guess I try to believe these silver linings in the hope that things will eventually be better again.
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Jealous_Response_492 6 days ago +14
Oh the Americans will learn a lesson, 8 decades of developing foreign policy, alliances, partnerships, trade and an effective global leadership role all trashed, betrayed. Domestically gutting education, science and tech, is gonna get them over taken by Europe and leapfrogged by China. Europe and other US allies are reforming alliances, partnerships and trade elsewhere. Even if the US manages to right itself, it'll never be the global leader or sole hegemon again. Hope Americans are comfortable with their diminished position in the world. 250 years was an average innings for an empire.
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BooksandBiceps 6 days ago +48
Combine this with billions of dollars in Chinese and Russian bot farms and billionaire media like Facebook and Twitter and FOX intentionally trying to drive him into power. Let’s not pretend it was a fair and even playing field.
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PointmanW 6 days ago +4
American and blaming others for their ills. Let’s not pretend that those thing, if it exists, made much of a difference, and that the US is defenseless against them, or that the US don't run bot farms themselves.
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MnstrPoppa 6 days ago +43
Single largest strategic mistake *so far*.
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Jealous_Response_492 6 days ago +13
Indeed. Boots on the ground wouldn't surprise me.
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QiTriX 6 days ago +6
which means we will f*** over some kurds again.
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Jealous_Response_492 6 days ago +5
Even the Kurds seem reluctant to get involved with the current US regime.
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Derikari 6 days ago +2
No matter what, the Kurds will suffer. Iran bombed them after Trump whined about missing weapon shipments
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Old_Ladies 6 days ago +7
It is scary how many Americans think they could easily take on China. If Iran can do this imagine the amount of damage a fight with another great power would be. I pray that we never have a war between the US and China.
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Larcye 6 days ago +47
The cost is actually kind of irrelevant. As you pointed out it's the fact that we can't actually produce enough replacements to shore up the losses. We produce advanced missiles in the single digits every month. Iran probably produces Triple digit amounts of drones each month. This is the same issue Russia had during the War in Ukraine before they took every old T-62 out of storage. They produced less than 30 T-72's a month. Oh and for all of this loss of equipment, we have achieved nothing. Iran still has most of it's Ballistic missle stockpiles and launchers intact. They also still have most of thier drone stockpiles and launchers intact. Oh and we martyred a dying old man and put an even more extreme group of people in Iran in power.
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BetterEveryLeapYear 6 days ago +26
Don't forget blew up a school full of girls. That'll surely win over hearts and minds. Got to the point where America can't get enough school shootings at home, has to go abroad for its fix.
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Larcye 6 days ago +4
How could I forget? Honestly this is going to be the biggest defeat of America since well the war of 1812.
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baseballduck 6 days ago +44
Yes, key phrase: "meaningful amount of time". Some of what's been lost can't be made "just in time" or "on demand". The US has to be extremely careful and strategic right now because we're as vulnerable as we've ever been-- and not just because of these losses, or the absolute humiliation of what's happened (though most Americans are probably unaware of the ridicule and how the country is now the laughing stock of the world). Not only do we have a deeply divided and self-antagonistic citizenry, but we also have an unarguably dysfunctional and corrupt government, and now the entire economy looks extraordinarily shaky, especially with the absurdity that is the national debt. Add to this an obliterated middle class, a rapidly declining education system, and enormous civilian susceptibility to all different kinds of propaganda, foreign and domestic, and I think it's safe to say the US has never been more at risk for catastrophe than right now.
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UnpluggedUnfettered 6 days ago +25
I feel like everyone stopped laughing a while ago; he is much closer to Pennywise than Bozo at this point. The only good thing to come out of this is that he's made the US military far too weak to even imagine a takeover of Greenland, much less invasions of Canada or Mexico at this point.
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FaderJockey2600 6 days ago +7
Krusty? Criminal enterprise, picking on kids, bad health and a tv personality with evil sidekicks.
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Mr_Dunk_McDunk 6 days ago +5
You forgot the AI bubble and the tech circle jerk going on that's gonna bust the stock market Edit: and I also forgot the petrodollar being threatened
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Engineer9 6 days ago +3
Like taking a rook with a pawn
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SnooChickens1534 6 days ago +46
They also lost an MQ triton drone worth 240 million aswell .
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captain_slackbeard 6 days ago +47
You forgot to factor in one crucial datapoint to your calculations: * The Dow Jones was briefly over 50,000.
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BetterEveryLeapYear 6 days ago +8
You're also omitting the Polymarket crypto and insider trading gains.
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Miserly_Bastard 6 days ago +3
That's simply what happens when every expectation becomes that we will just print more money to pay ballooning interest on government debt.
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RootHogOrDieTrying May 6, 2026 +46
Camp Buehring (Kuwait) was the base Iran supposedly bombed with an F5 they bought from the US back in the 70s.
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LARPerator May 6, 2026 +51
I mean it's free if you don't pay it. At least that's the Trump MO. They'll do what they usually do; kick the differences for their stupid bullshit down the road. My guess is that they'll give the order to consolidate what equipment they do have into whatever number of functional bases it can manage instead of replacing this equipment. Nevermind that this equipment isn't just for base defense, and the consequences for them will be dire if they willingly forfeit it. But they've seen the timetable for missile restock. It isn't good. They haven't scaled their production and by now it's too late. In comparison China has been scaling for years now in anticipation of an operation they still might not try. For a war like this they should have been preparing for years, and clearly they haven't.
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StatelyTree 6 days ago +17
I'm pretty sure I remember Hegseth and Miller at one point saying  akin to "we have all this military equipment we own, why not use it" 
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NapoleonBlownapart9 May 6, 2026 +75
Add the 2 KC-135’s that collided and as of 20ish minutes ago another one squawked a 7700 emergency, went off radar, and lost transponder contact. I think a couple got perforated on the ground too but maybe I’m mistaken. They’d still be in the inventory (and crew(s) alive) if not for the incompetence of the izrail/p3do-ballgargle-syndicate.
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JooksKIDD 6 days ago +14
wait what? where did you hear about the most recent one. 
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nerodidntdoit 6 days ago +20
That's why every grand strategy game gives several bonuses to the defender. It's so much easier to defend then it is to attack irl.
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ObliviousKangaroo 6 days ago +18
You forgot the 3 f-15s that got shot down by green on blue action as a consequence of this whole thing.
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ImUrFrand 6 days ago +14
A10 thunderbolt costing $120 million? math is mathing wrong here.
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Broad-Lobster7470 6 days ago +11
Biggest fail of a president ever !
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SnooChickens1534 May 6, 2026 +30
Now you know why Americans cant have free healthcare
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Tuesday_6PM May 6, 2026 +73
Americans already pay more per-capita than other Western nations. We just let middlemen take massive cuts and deny care based on profit impacts
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MagicDartProductions 6 days ago +7
And we spend 3x our defense budget on healthcare as of 2025 numbers IIRC. This argument is such a fallacy. People just forget how absolutely enormous the GDP of the US is.
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RocketRelm 6 days ago +8
If americans wanted free health care, they would vote good democrat liberals in everywhere and stop putting in populists like the gop. You need policy oriented people over vapid slogans to get results, but all people want is one sentence cheerleading.
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Tuesday_6PM 6 days ago +6
I’m unfortunately very aware I’m not in the majority of people able and willing to vote. Even in a very blue state, a lot of people seem to have very limited vision for improvement
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SpikyCactusJuice 6 days ago +2
Or, you know, actually revolt.
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SDL68 6 days ago +11
Americans spend almost double per Capita on health care. The difference is, in majority of western countries it's non profit. In the US it's a business.
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disgruntledempanada May 6, 2026 +26
I remember hearing about war games being staged against Iran a while back and Iran ended up winning in the simulated scenario. Would be fun to reread that after this.
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National-Charity-435 May 6, 2026 +6
**SIEGEL:** They are presented with this scenario that you wrote, which included cyber attacks, **assassinations of scientists**, and it escalated from there. When you wrote all of this, did you write it in a way that you thought it was at least possible that diplomacy might prevail over threats of war? [https://www.npr.org/2012/09/24/161706698/simulated-war-between-u-s-iran-has-grisly-end](https://www.npr.org/2012/09/24/161706698/simulated-war-between-u-s-iran-has-grisly-end) [https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/Joint\_Staff/12-F-0344-Millennium-Challenge-2002-Experiment-Report.pdf](https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/Joint_Staff/12-F-0344-Millennium-Challenge-2002-Experiment-Report.pdf) Oof 752 pages
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SmokeyUnicycle 6 days ago +9
> The US hasn't seen losses like this since possibly WW2 or Korea. The US lost literally thousands of aircraft in Vietnam.
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ninjaluvr 6 days ago +9
We did and they were inexpensive compared to today's advanced technology. You're focus on raw numbers of planes. I'm talking about financial density. Those thousands of planes cost a fraction of what these hyper expensive hardware costs.
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SmokeyUnicycle 6 days ago +14
An F-4 Phantom II cost the equivalent of 20+ million dollars in today's money, and a B-52 closer to 100m. We lost 31 B-52s in Vietnam. We also lost over 300 F-105s at about 15 million in todays money each.
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lubeskystalker 6 days ago +3
Where did you get $120 million for an A-10? They were $9.8 million flyaway in 1976, that inflates to $55 million. Gemini says that the early 2000's upgrades were $10-15 million per fin.
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thedeepfake 6 days ago +5
“Breathtaking” is a bit of a stretch, unless you mean that the U.S. can lose all that and not give a shit.
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sonnytai 6 days ago +4
Holy f***
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demonotreme 6 days ago +2
It's okay, less healthcare will pay for it
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WingerRules 6 days ago +2
An A10 costs more than an F15? Now I doubt your math.
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Accurate_Type4863 6 days ago +2
What. These losses to aircraft are minor. We lost more in the Gulf War
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Asleep_Onion 6 days ago +4
It sucks to have lost all of that equipment, but to say we haven't seen losses like this since WW2 is a ridiculous exaggeration, the sum total of that entire list is literally less than the value of the gear we abandoned in Afghanistan.
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JazzyJockJeffcoat 6 days ago +4
Not even counting the handiwork of the Ghost of Kuwait who shot down three U.S. F-15E Strike Eagles ($31m apiece)
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Dragon6172 6 days ago +3
I feel like you can add in the repair cost of the USS Ford. There is a non-zero chance you can conclude the ships extended deployment (over 10 months so far) played a part in the fire.
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thewayitis 6 days ago +2
Roughly $30,000,000,000.00.
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rowjamm 6 days ago +2
Vietnam? That was around $1tn in today's dollars
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DBCrumpets 6 days ago +2
If that is true, you have to consider Vietnam lasted 20 years. This is what, month 3 of Iran?
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dwarffy 6 days ago +36
I'd argue blowing the E-3 Sentry (A billion dollar plane) was the biggest Iranian operational win. US has only a couple dozen of those and those are vital in any Air Defense system and for maintaining Air Supremacy over Iran
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TinyTowel 6 days ago +8
The E-3 is being phased out. While not trying to undercut the loss , we should be aware that space-based MTI is coming along and we can buy the E-7, a superior aircraft. 
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NGTech9 May 6, 2026 +25
They took out a SATCOM terminal (maybe multiple) which limits the capability of the AN/TPS-59 Radar. A quick search says the terminals cost $30M.
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Jorteg 6 days ago +5
It was a new one too. Or at least refurbished. It was replaced sometime in 2020 or 2021 if I remember correctly.
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HighOverlordXenu 6 days ago +547
I legitimately find it darkly hilarious that we have concrete, verifiable proof that the government is lying to us; and the usual conspiracy theorists are the ones in denial.
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nexusSigma 6 days ago +93
The irony is delicious, normally this is exactly the sort of thing they would be jumping on like rabid wolves but because the implications of it are at odds with their life choices (ie: I signed up for the cult, being wrong would be existentially devastating) they deny it. It’s only ever a conspiracy if the bad guy isn’t on their side. They bury their heads in the sand if there’s any whiff of personal accountability for supporting it. They can’t say “I’m wrong”. If you asked them what would it take for you to admit you were wrong they would proudly say “there’s nothing you could do to convince me”, which tells you everything you need to know about these people. They aren’t capable of critical thought, and reasoning with them is futile.
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tinny66666 6 days ago +39
"I don't really follow politics."
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perenniallandscapist 6 days ago +18
Says the guy with a strong political opinion. Why do they always have such a strong political opinion if they don't follow what's going on? Why have an opinion at all?
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great_whitehope 6 days ago +6
Because they are “smart “ they don’t need to read facts
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WCland 6 days ago +15
That’s the really insidious thing here, Hegseth thinks giving us the facts hurts the war effort, because he rejects democracy and doesn’t care that we have to pay for it.
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EfficientTourist7480 6 days ago +2
1984
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Candid_Cat_5921 May 6, 2026 +350
There is still a US enforced blackout on Middle Eastern satellite imagery from western companies.
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Less-Fondant-3054 May 6, 2026 +262
Which is standard wartime information control. The lack of info about damage isn't what's actually surprising. What is surprising is the lack of over-highlighted successes. Which tells me that the US has accomplished a lot less than they want people to know.
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Law-of-Poe May 6, 2026 +132
What are you talking about? We completely wiped out their nuclear capability like four times. And their navy at least twice /s
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Jealous_Response_492 May 6, 2026 +55
Yepp, this from June 2025 is still up [https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2025/06/irans-nuclear-facilities-have-been-obliterated-and-suggestions-otherwise-are-fake-news/](https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2025/06/irans-nuclear-facilities-have-been-obliterated-and-suggestions-otherwise-are-fake-news/)
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Capivara_19 6 days ago +15
Omg what the actual f is that pop up soliciting email addresses?
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Jealous_Response_492 6 days ago +9
No idea, my ad-blocker must have prevented whatever your seeing. But I'm curious to what pop-up your seeing?
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Capivara_19 6 days ago +14
It’s not letting me post the screenshot but it says, “Welcome to the Golden Age! Sign up for updates from the Trump White House” and it has a picture of him pointing. Pretty sure it would put you on his personal fundraising list 🤮
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Jealous_Response_492 6 days ago +4
That reads atrociously, FFS I'm getting Homelander vibes from Primes The Boy's.
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weristjonsnow 6 days ago +5
Can you even imagine a future when we all have like 10% confidence that what we're hearing from the white house is true? That future feels very far away
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bestmaokaina May 6, 2026 +60
Huh? No other president has ever won the same war over 20 times in the same month. Many people are saying it was a tremendous success
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plotholesandpotholes May 6, 2026 +12
Bingo. They think they are being sly but it is having the opposite effect.
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GrandRoyal_01 6 days ago +3
But at least we got to know so much about the downed pilots they saved.  They’ve been on every talk show and news program for months.  You know, Dude44 - the one who looks a bit like Tom Cruise and Alpha - the guy who looks a bit like a young Val Kilmer and the Colonel who led the rescue mission, who looks a bit like … the Colonel!  You know, the saved pilots, the American heroes … those guys … 
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m3rcapto 6 days ago +9
Can they try to use social media for the sharing of satellite images so they ban social media too? "US enforces Facebook Blackout, Twitter restricted to only show LIV golf videos"
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Peacer13 6 days ago +8
Anyone got link to a free Chinese satellite image provider so we can take a look at the base damages?
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d1andonly May 6, 2026 +10
Standard stuff. Iran has a blackout on its complete internet unless you’re approved by the government.
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Capn_Chryssalid May 6, 2026 +51
Got a non-paywall version?
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PurpleStabsPixel 6 days ago +42
Yet people still falling for the propaganda. US taking notes from Russia.
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Old_Ladies 6 days ago +8
The US isn't at war. This is a special military operation.
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SnooChickens1534 May 6, 2026 +52
That cant be true , Trump said Iran were defeated after 3 days .
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czs5056 6 days ago +8
My buddy shared a video of Camp Buehring and it was a bit surreal seeing buildings I recognized in ruins.
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Hairy_Technology_213 6 days ago +22
Wait. What? You mean the Trump Administration lied? Are you sure?
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JerHat 6 days ago +18
Is this why the administration was trying to cover up satellite imagery of the war?
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xpda 6 days ago +22
With the open, transparent government of the United States, we're forced to get our news from Iran. It's just like Russia. Please vote.
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octopus86sg 6 days ago +5
I mean, trump can blame it on Biden for this
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badpineapple6400 6 days ago +17
Funny how our free press seems to not be reporting on this.
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Admiral_Ballsack 6 days ago +3
I think you forgot to put "free press" between quotes.
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cassydd 6 days ago +5
The article is from the Washington Post. It doesn't get too much more mainstream than that.
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ChipsAhoy2022 6 days ago +4
Paywalled
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noir_lord May 6, 2026 +91
I mean... yeah. That's one one of the facets of authoritarian forms of government (all governments do it and some level is probably wise but there is a balance, they simply turn it to 11). > The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
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Snlxdd May 6, 2026 +64
There is not a military on this planet that's going to publicize information about how effective or ineffective an opposition's attacks are. All it does is help the enemy hone in their strategy and put more people in danger.
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WingerRules 6 days ago +5
Yeah, but the military is lying to congress in hearings. The numbers they gave in testimony to congress for the cost of the war so far was obvious bullshit lies. Most independent observers are estimating 200%-400% the numbers they gave. Think about that, the military is lying to congress. Thats how militaries become partisan in corrupt countries and governments lose control of their militaries. It's the start of how dictators gain power or militaries that end up running a coup. Also can result in completely ineffective militaries due to corruption or lying about their status/capabilities to officials, look at Russia at the start of the war in Ukraine.
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CatFancier4393 May 6, 2026 +38
If you are fighting a war its normal to not reveal to the enemy the extent of battle damage.
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Jealous_Response_492 May 6, 2026 +13
Iran already know, they have a Chinese satellite, not as good as the US, but good enough.
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CatFancier4393 May 6, 2026 +6
Yea but the point is the US is still going to make Iran work for that info. Militaries don't just broadcast that stuff and the way the articles are trying to portray it like the government is purposefully hiding battle damage to decieve the public is disingenuous.
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ninjaluvr May 6, 2026 +13
The Trump administration is undeniably trying to deceive the American public about how this "war" is going.
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Larcye 6 days ago +2
I'm still waiting for proof of life on that pilot we supposedly "Rescued"... For how Vain Trump is, I know for a fact he wouldn't pass up the opportunity to parade him/her around the white house press corp.
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Jealous_Response_492 6 days ago +5
They're not working for it, they have high res satellite imagery of their own. The US is downplaying that it has achieved very little for great losses.
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Electrifying2017 May 6, 2026 +21
But it’s not a war.   /s
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ThePickleConnoisseur May 6, 2026 +1
These people need to learn about opsec
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Memitim 6 days ago +5
Opsec is a fun phrase that means nothing in practice once the US government has been compromised to this extent.
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AtrociousMeandering 6 days ago +7
You mean the folks who invited a journalist to their Signal chat without realizing what they did? Yeah, they need to learn about Opsec. Concealing the damage to US operations sustained is just public relations for the domestic American audience, Iran was watching their drones hit or miss on live video.
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Glass_Librarian9019 May 6, 2026 +24
I've seen comments from people along the lines of "are you really going to believe a satellite photo you saw over Trump?". I like to think they're bots.
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Memitim 6 days ago +3
I'd believe the guy sleeping next to the dumpster at the gas station before Trump. The gas station bum doesn't have a history of lying with every breath and violating US law regularly enough to keep US courts releasing judgements pointing the violations out.
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xmuskorx May 6, 2026 -1
dude. no government will leak military intelligence during a war. you never heard of op sec? this has nothing to do with a form of government
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Shiriru00 May 6, 2026 +10
Do you seriously believe Iran have no ways to assess the damage they've done, as well as their Chinese and Russian allies? They know. It's not op sec, it's face saving.
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yuimiop 6 days ago +5
There's been tons of stories about fit bits and apple watches compromising military operations. Is anyone seriously going argue that satellite images and battle damage reports aren't going to offer valuable information to Iran?
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radioactivebeaver May 6, 2026 +3
It's both, you know get can get it elsewhere but you can't just throw up your hands and hand it to them for free because of that. You have to at least do what you can to hide the info.
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GHOSTYvfx 6 days ago +6
Kinda obvious. Just look at the way orange man has been talking about Iran recently. Empty threats over and over with no actual result. He knows he bit off more than he could chew and now we’re all paying for it
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RebelliousInNature May 6, 2026 +6
Hey whisky Pete, what you saying about all this?
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fenikz13 6 days ago +4
Just big winners over here, glad we are getting taxed out the ass for this lovely non war that we keep winning every week
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leon_alistair 6 days ago +6
Experts and analyst whos in the know have said this for a while. US basically has minimal military presence at the middle east presently. The Iranian kicked em out and its unclear whether they'll be back since the cost of rebuilding all those damaged facility is too high. Its also impossible to do for now since they can get targeted again. But ofc ppl will call it anti US propaganda
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Tyrtaeus 5 days ago +2
Racism is expensive
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rhino369 May 6, 2026 +48
There have definitely been some hits on some major assets, but that’s expected. Interceptors aren’t perfect.  But above ground unhardened structures like barracks and mess halls are sitting ducks. Cheaper to just rebuild them than to build them in a way that would stand a missile barrage.  Also it’s not some evil authoritarian plan to hide damage. If your enemy sends 10 missiles and you shoot down 8. You don’t tell which ones missed and which ones hit. That’s just narrowing their second attack target list. 
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faceintheblue May 6, 2026 +29
I enjoyed reading about how during the V-1 and V-2 terror bombings the British press talked about the weapons falling short in rural Kent, doing no damage. The Germans actually had the range on London right, but they adjusted their flight plans/ballistic trajectories based on BBC radio and British newspaper coverage, and all of a sudden a lot of the terror weapons started landing on farmland to the northwest of London.
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crazedizzled May 6, 2026 +12
They've gotten some hits on some REALLY major assets though. Kind of disappointing. Taking out billion dollar equipment with a mortar shell on wings is pretty wild. The trump administration is laughably incompetent
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666666Satanislife 6 days ago +2
I think the real question is whether these countries would want these bases back at all. They’ve don’t really protect the host country and just become targets.
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FutureThought4936 May 6, 2026 +5
Yeah the picture on the right are barracks tents at Camp Buehring (sp?) in Kuwait (I've been in similar tents but at a different camp in Kuwait). That's the damage an F-5 caused earlier in the war. It basically amounts to nothing (this damage specifically, not saying Iran didn't cause lots of damage elsewhere, they did). Good job Iran, you bombed an empty tent.
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DateMasamusubi May 6, 2026 +3
Pentagon has plenty of experienced leaders who know how to fight. The armchair admirals who were wondering why the US Navy was not in Hormuz made me chuckle.
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crazedizzled May 6, 2026 +15
Well there was until trump fired them. It's likely now just a bunch of people going "Yes sir! Great idea sir!"
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Money_Do_2 May 6, 2026 +12
Lmao they stand up to the drunk frat bro and get fired. Less and less of those competent generals every day. Also we've been simply killing tons of people then retreating for half a century.
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RedplazmaOfficial May 6, 2026 +1
Also the US is notorious for setting up dumy targets.
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PositiveUse 6 days ago +3
Anyone surprised? Iran shot 10000+ missiles and drones… At the same time, this is also info misused to twist Iran into a super power which is also ridiculous. They have lost a lot, yes, the Iranians played it politically very smart.
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HelloYesItsMeYourMom May 6, 2026 +9
The US abandoned these bases before the war. This isn’t surprising. It’s the reason only 13 have died through the entirety of Iran’s assault.
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No_Rain8512 May 6, 2026 +34
Which begs the question, what good is a "base" if it can't be defended?
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GenghisKazoo May 6, 2026 +19
I'm sure the illusion of safety they gave the Gulf States was lucrative for a while.
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crazedizzled May 6, 2026 +2
It would cost more to defend than rebuild
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HelloYesItsMeYourMom May 6, 2026 +8
A base is useful until it isn’t. It was useful for non wartime scenarios. During war, certain bases within range are no longer necessary because the US has much more range than Iran.
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No_Rain8512 6 days ago +2
So they were useful how?  Aside from providing a false and very expensive sense of security 
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HelloYesItsMeYourMom 6 days ago +4
They were useful for missions that happened before the war.
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No_Rain8512 6 days ago +4
And what mission was that?  Operation waste money and look useful? 
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YoungRichBastard26s May 6, 2026 +5
Remember when they was putting troops in hotels as a sort of protection from strikes and Iran still bombed then wonder what those numbers was
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antryoo May 6, 2026 +3
There were definitely people involved in planning that were smart enough to know it would be impossible to have 100% effective defense
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KlatuuBarradaNicto 6 days ago +1
Our government has not been telling us the truth.
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SlightlyAngyKitty 6 days ago +2
They never do
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