So those B1-B bombers and F-22s are just transiting through Prince Sultan airbase?
Please respect your moderator position and stop making up stuff that can easily be fact checked.
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"Prince Sultan Air Base (PSAB) is an active United States Air Force Air Expeditionary Base operating in Saudi Arabia and assigned to the U.S. Air Forces Central Command."
Everyone knows that Saudi is a US protectorate and the idea it leads anyone when it cannot even maintain itself without US protection is absurd. Trump even said publicy that KSA would not last 2 weeks without US.
If that was true..why are the US and KSA negotiating a deal for protection..
Get your facts right and stop personal attacks based on your fallacies..
During the
War in Afghanistan, the Saudi government refused to allow the United States to use its air bases in Saudi Arabia to launch offensive air operations against the
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and
al-Qaeda, but did allow them to use Prince Sultan Air Base to coordinate offensive air operations of air combat operations launched from other countries.
[4] In mid-2003, all U.S. operations at PSAB began migrating to
Al Udeid Air Base in
Doha,
Qatar.
Between 2003 and 2005
Vickers VC10s from
No. 101 Squadron RAF were based here in support of
Operation Telic before moving to RAF Al Udeid (a section of the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar).
In October
2019, 2,000 U.S. troops joined approximately 700 service members already stationed at the air base, along with deploying
B-1B bombers,
F-22 Raptor stealth fighters and
Patriot missile batteries.
The new troop buildup followed several attacks on oil tankers by Iran in the Gulf of Oman.
The
378th Air Expeditionary Wing was activated at Prince Sultan on 17 December 2019, with the Air Force stating the wing's mission is to 'provide strategic depth and increased defensive support while sustaining regional presence to promote peace through deterrence'
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