Reviews from a number of sources have indicated that the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has efficiently neutralised 5 Eurofighters at Ali Al-Salem Air Base in Kuwait. The strike is reported to have destroyed three Kuwaiti Air Drive Eurofighters and severely broken two Italian Air Drive Eurofighters. This follows the confirmed destruction of an Italian Air Drive MQ-9 Reaper reconnaissance and assault drone on the identical facility, and strikes on Italian floor forces at services in Iraq by Iranian-aligned Iraqi paramilitary teams. These operations have highlighted Italy’s usually ignored however important position in supporting U.S.-led operations in opposition to adversaries of the collective Western Bloc, which have been disproportionate to the Southern European state’s army energy and the dimensions of its economic system.
Following the U.S. and Israel’s initiation of a full scale assault on Iran on February 28, which has been supported by nations throughout the Persian Gulf and Europe, Iranian counterattacks have achieved appreciable successes in destroying excessive worth plane and main army services throughout the Gulf area. Strikes by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have been on March 16 reported to have destroyed a United Arab Emirates Air Drive Saab GlobalEye airborne early warning and management (AEW&C) system valued at roughly $500 million at Al Dhafra Air Base in Abu Dhabi, with the destruction of a number of different plane together with MQ-9s additionally assessed to be seemingly through the assault. A carefully coinciding assault broken at the least six U.S. Air Drive KC-135 tankers at Prince Sultan Air Drive Base in Saudi Arabia.
Kuwaiti Air Drive Eurofighters are among the costliest tactical fight plane operational anyplace on the planet, with a contract signed in 2015 to accumulate a single squadron’s value of 28 plane valued at 8 billion euros, or over $9 billion, putting their price at an exorbitant $321 million every. The destruction of three fighters would thus set the Kuwaiti Defence Ministry again over $900 million. The intense price of the plane led the Kuwaiti parliamentary committee to research a attainable large-scale misappropriation of state funds in 2020, though it has been removed from unusual for defence shoppers within the Arab World to pay outstandingly excessive costs for Western fighter plane. The capabilities of the Eurofighter have persistently been evaluated poorly, with the Qatar Emiri Air Drive confirmed in October 2025 to be looking for to retire its 24 Eurofighters from service, simply three years after they started deliveries to the nation in 2022.
