Iran’s Missile Attacks Cause $800 Million Damage to US Military Bases: What You Need to Know

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U.S. bases in the Middle East sustained at least $800 million in damage from Iran’s strikes (about ₩1.07 trillion).

On the 20th (local time), the BBC — citing analysis by U.S. think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and its own review of satellite imagery — estimated that U.S. military infrastructure suffered that level of damage in the two weeks after the clashes. The assessment suggests the toll is larger than previously reported.

Mark Cancian, a senior adviser at CSIS and the report’s author, said, “Damage to U.S. bases in the Middle East has been underestimated,” while adding that the precise scale will require additional information to confirm.

Iran’s strikes targeted U.S. bases across the region, including facilities in Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

Analysts say an AN/TPY-2 radar — a key sensor for the THAAD missile-defense system — at a Jordanian air base was heavily damaged. The radar system is valued at about $485 million (roughly ₩646.7 billion).

The report also estimates roughly $310 million in additional damage to buildings and base infrastructure (about ₩413.3 billion).

CSIS found that Iran repeatedly struck at least three sites: Kuwait’s Ali Al-Salim, Qatar’s Al Udeid and Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan air base.

Radar facilities at Kuwait’s Camp Arifjan and at Prince Sultan were hit, and satellite imagery showed smoke coming from parts of the THAAD system.

Some satellite photos also showed radomes — the protective covers for U.S. radar equipment — destroyed.

Radar and satellite communications are the “eyes and ears” of modern military operations. That likely explains why Iran focused on them early in the campaign.

THAAD batteries at U.S. bases in the UAE and Jordan were also targeted, though specific damage there has not been confirmed. The U.S. has reportedly redeployed some THAAD systems that had been stationed in South Korea to the Middle East.

Damage to U.S. bases from Iran’s retaliation represents only part of the conflict’s cost. The Pentagon told Congress that operations in the six days following the Iranian strikes cost about $11.3 billion (roughly ₩15.07 trillion).

The Defense Department has requested an additional $200 billion for the war (about ₩266.7 trillion). Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned costs could rise further, saying, “It costs money to remove bad actors.”