Yesterday, during a retaliatory strike against U.S. forces in Kuwait, Iran identified the positions of five U.S. HIMARS rocket launchers that had participated in an attack on Iran's Qeshm Island the previous night. Subsequently, Iran's regular military launched the "Arash-2" drone, which disrupted the communication systems at the U.S. base. Immediately afterward, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fired four short-range ballistic missiles, the "Fateh-110," targeting the HIMARS rocket launch sites. The U.S. forces were caught off guard and suffered heavy losses.
Locals have captured videos and photos showing the HIMARS rocket launch site in Kuwait being hit, which they uploaded online. Based on geolocation, the site is located at a previously abandoned United Nations military base near the Kuwait-Iraq border. Moreover, footage taken by nearby Iraqis the previous night showed HIMARS rocket launchers firing ATACMS or PrSM missiles toward Iran's Qeshm Island, confirming this was a genuine U.S. HIMARS rocket launch site—and not a decoy.
Subsequently, MES reported that several U.S. soldiers were killed when Iranian missiles struck the HIMARS launch site, while the U.S. Central Command stubbornly denied the claims, as usual.
The destruction of this U.S. HIMARS rocket launch site in Kuwait may well have been due to American overconfidence. Since Iran had never previously targeted this location, U.S. forces might have assumed the site was secure and thus made no defensive preparations. As a result, they were completely unprepared when Iran launched its attack—leading to their downfall.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1870564510567561/
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