CENTCOM completed a roughly five-hour wave of strikes overnight on Iranian naval and coastal targets along Iran's southern coast, including Bandar Abbas, Bushehr, Chabahar, Jask, Konarak, and Abu Musa. The operation marks the first-ever use of unmanned attack drones and vessels by US forces against Iran, according to CENTCOM.
CENTCOM completed an approximately five-hour wave of strikes overnight against Iranian naval and coastal infrastructure, hitting targets including Bandar Abbas, Bushehr, Chabahar, Jask, Konarak, and Abu Musa Island. The operation, now the third consecutive night of US strikes against Iran, marks the first confirmed deployment of unmanned attack drones and unmanned surface vessels against Iranian targets, CENTCOM said.
As The Zioneer reported (Tue 00:13 Jerusalem), the exchanges began after a one-way attack drone hit a Panama-flagged tanker near the Strait of Hormuz, triggering a CENTCOM response. Over the previous two nights, strikes targeted air defense and radar sites and then expanded to missile and drone infrastructure. On Tuesday, CENTCOM detailed a five-hour initial wave hitting naval systems across the same set of locations. Tonight's wave adds unmanned systems to the US arsenal in the campaign.
The latest strikes come as Iran has retaliated against US targets in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan in earlier rounds, and IRGC forces have claimed attacks on the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain. US officials have dismissed Iran's claims of successful hits as exaggerated. No reports of Iranian counterstrikes against US forces overnight have emerged yet from this wave.
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