{"id":9575,"date":"2026-03-29T10:32:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/03\/29\/joint-missile-drone-attack-destroys-e3-awacs-al-kharj-base\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T10:32:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:32:05","slug":"joint-missile-drone-attack-destroys-e3-awacs-al-kharj-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/03\/29\/joint-missile-drone-attack-destroys-e3-awacs-al-kharj-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Missile and Drone Attack Destroys E-3 AWACS at Al-Kharj Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Relations Office of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has announced that in a joint missile and drone operation, an E-3 AWACS aircraft at the Al-Kharj base in Saudi Arabia was targeted and, according to the organization, &#8220;completely destroyed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The IRGC statement noted that this action was carried out in response to what it called the &#8220;hostile actions of the United States military.&#8221; In addition to the AWACS aircraft, some other planes stationed at the base were also damaged.<\/p>\n<p>The E-3 AWACS is an airborne early warning and control and command aircraft used to monitor air movements and manage operations. The Al-Kharj base in Saudi Arabia is considered one of the key military facilities in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IRGC claims joint missile and drone attack destroyed an E-3 AWACS aircraft at Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Al-Kharj base in response to US military actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}