On February 2, an attack was carried out on the US military base in Jordan using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The newspaper also writes that the facility does not have air defense systems suitable to suppress them. washington post With reference to sources.
According to one of the unnamed officials, the US Armed Forces base was attacked by Shahed-101 type unmanned aerial vehicles. The documents highlight the use of such devices by militants in Iraq.
Journalists suggested that American soldiers may not have noticed the approaching UAVs because their flight path was quite low. Moreover, the leadership of this base relied solely on electronic warfare (EW) equipment. As a result, the facility did not have an air defense system that could shoot down the plane in question.
US Armed Forces on the night of February 3 applied More than 85 targets were attacked in Iraq and Syria, including warehouses and command and control points where unmanned aerial vehicles were located. Representatives of the country’s Army Central Command noted that American troops responded to the drone attack on their bases in Jordan in this way.
later situation commented Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin. He said the attacks on targets in Syria and Iraq were just the beginning of the response to the attack on the base in Jordan.
Formerly in the US Senate criticized President Joe Biden for the slowness of the operation in the Middle East.