Iran severely damaged U.S. air ops center in Qatar soon after war began

The command center that ran America’s air campaigns in the Middle East for over two decades took a direct hit during the U.S. war with Iran and was severely damaged, a senior U.S. official and other people informed about the attack told Air & Space Forces Magazine. The facility was not in use at the time and no injuries were reported.

Multiple Iranian missiles struck the Combined Air Operations Center at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar during the early weeks of the war, rendering it inoperable. Yet the Iranian missile attacks didn’t interfere with Operation Epic Fury’s air campaign, which began on Feb. 28, or the more limited airstrikes conducted since the tenuous ceasefire reached in early April.

Anticipating that Iran would target the facility, the U.S. military directed the campaign from a facility at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., from the start of the operation. Personnel were transferred away from Al Udeid before the conflict.

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