{"id":395981,"date":"2026-03-29T21:39:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/rare-us-command-plane-destroyed-iran-missile-strike\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T21:39:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:39:59","slug":"rare-us-eye-in-the-sky-command-plane-destroyed-in-iran-strike-on-saudi-air-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=395981","title":{"rendered":"Rare US &#8220;Eye In The Sky&#8221; Command Plane Destroyed In Iran Strike On Saudi Air Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> (USAF) has reportedly lost one of its Boeing E-3 Sentry aircraft following an Iranian missile and drone strike on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. The command plane \u2014 often dubbed the Air Force&#8217;s &#8220;eye in the sky&#8221; for its advanced surveillance capabilities \u2014 was one of several aircraft damaged during the attack, along with multiple KC-135 refueling tankers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has just a handful of E-3 Sentry&#8217;s in mission-capable condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,11087,412,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-awacs","category-military","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395982,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395981\/revisions\/395982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}