NBC News has reached out to U.S. Central Command for comment.
“Iran is gradually eating away at the network of early warning systems that the US has built over decades in the region,” Andreas Krieg, a senior lecturer at King’s College London’s School of Security Studies, said in written comments to NBC News on Monday.
“Collectively each radar or (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) platform destroyed further degrades the overall monitoring capability of the U.S.,” he said.
The E-3 Sentry, an airborne warning and control system, or AWACS, was one of six stationed at Prince Sultan Air Base prior to Friday’s attack, according to Air & Space Forces Magazine, one of the world’s foremost publications on the aerospace industry. Prior to the strike, the U.S. had 16 in total, the magazine reported.
NBC News has reached out to U.S. Central Command for comment on the number of E-3 Sentry planes.
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