According to Bloomberg, the Kuwaiti air defense intercepted the Iranian Fateh-110 ballistic missile. However, its debris fell into the area of the air base and caused relatively extensive damage there.
Debris also injured five American soldiers and destroyed two American MQ-9 Reaper drones, each worth 30 million dollars (624,726,000 crowns), the agency said, citing a source familiar with the consequences of the Iranian attack on the Ali al-Sálim base.
The Iranians struck the base at a time when the US administration led by President Donald Trump is considering an agreement to extend the fragile ceasefire that has been in place since April, although the two sides have occasionally attacked each other since then.
On Friday, Trump said on his Truth Social network that he was ready to make a “final decision” on the preliminary agreement to extend the ceasefire. But his meeting with advisers in the so-called situation room ended the same day without a presidential statement.
The war with Iran has significantly depleted the US stockpile of expensive weapons, including JASSM-ER and Tomahawk missiles, as well as THAAD, Patriot PAC-3 and SM-3 Block IIA air defense systems. According to the latest US Department of Defense report on Operation Epic Fury, 14 Americans were killed and 409 were wounded.
Since the start of the war on February 28, Iran has fired more than 1,850 ballistic missiles at targets throughout the region. The Fateh-110 is a short-range ballistic missile that, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, can carry a warhead weighing 500 kilograms.
