Overview
- U.S. officials said Iranian ballistic missiles fired overnight Tuesday into Wednesday damaged multiple American aircraft at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.
- Jordanian forces reported they detected 20 incoming ballistic missiles and intercepted 18 with no reported casualties on the ground.
- U.S. personnel launched roughly 30 Patriot interceptor missiles to stop the barrage, a high single-night expenditure that officials and analysts say adds pressure to already stressed stockpiles.
- Sources say one A-10 Thunderbolt II lost a wing and roughly eight F-15E Strike Eagles sustained light damage and were returned to service, with repairability concerns heightened by earlier cuts to A-10 depot maintenance capacity.
- The strikes followed U.S. strikes that destroyed five Iranian-linked tankers and drew an IRGC claim of targeting aircraft sites, while President Trump publicly denied that U.S. planes were damaged, raising contested public narratives and heightening regional operational risks.