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With two 12,000-feet passages in Qatari desert, Al Udeid is the largest and most important US military installation in the Middle East.
Before it is targeted by an Iran in missile barrage On Monday, satellite visualization last week shows US relocating several aircraft from the base after Israel’s attack in Iran. About 40 US military plane was lost, changing the base fleet until June 19.
Qatar Defense Ministry says this “successfully restricted” all missiles are shot at the base.
Al Udeid is the habitat of the united center of the Air Commence Central Command – the center of the Nerve for the window of Centcom from Egypt to Central Asia. It is also the main operation office for the Royal Air Force in the UK in the Gulf Region.
From base, american, British and other alliance officials ordained air-ordained air campaigns and Syria hits the support of Yemen and Logisticals for Afghan operations.
There are no US planes involved in Attacks against Iran nuclear targets on Sunday used facilities. Qatar previously said that it is not allowed to be based on Iranian attack, the neighbor where it is traditional with good relationship.
Built in 1996 with Qatari funds after September 11, 2001 US attacks, the basis now hosts 10,000 US staff, with a rotating cast of Coalitia Partners.
Near about 12 square feet size, Al Udeid also boasts the Patriot Anti-Missile Exectlectors, hardened storage stories. It always hosts B-52 Bombers, F-15 Eagle Fighter Jets, KC-135 Refueling Tankers Surveillance like RC-135 Rivet Joint. During the height of war of terror, it serves a launching pad for daily strike and resupply sensies across the region.
Although al udeid is the air hub, the main presence of the US Naval in the Gulf is based near Manama, Bahrain, in the US fifth fleet. Join, both forms are a complex architecture: Naval Dominice in tight hormuz, and fast log in Qatar air.
Bahrain on Monday confirmed the temporary airspace suspension as a step of precaution.
Al Udeid’s long-tong status remain sensitive, and the standard becomes an unstoppable American leverage symbol in the Gulf region of the US military force.
US legislators use negotiations about the base rental extension – recently changed for a decade – as an opportunity to demand older Qatari, Iranian proxies and terrory proxies in Iran.
Qatar, a small country guarding its vulnerability to larger neighbors, well invested to maintain US presence, which spends more than $ 1bn in infrastructure reports.
But Qatar’s role was a sensitive issue because the regions in the region intensifying the attack of Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023. Regional officials do not serve in the regional,
