{"id":2991,"date":"2026-03-19T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/us-airstrikes-on-irgc-naval-base-alma-research-and-education-center\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:22:10","slug":"us-airstrikes-on-irgc-naval-base-alma-research-and-education-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/us-airstrikes-on-irgc-naval-base-alma-research-and-education-center\/","title":{"rendered":"US Airstrikes on IRGC Naval Base &#8211; Alma Research and Education Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of ongoing efforts to secure freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, US Forces have been heavily striking IRGC bases on Qeshm Island. On March 17, Sentinel-2 imagery<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CopernicusEU\">@CopernicusEU<\/a> revealed that 2 bunkers storing UAVs and missiles at the UAV airfield were completely destroyed, along with 3 buildings in the IRGC naval base located north of the airfield. In addition, imagery on March 13 reveals that at least 6 buildings were also destroyed at the UAV airfield, where mobile ground control stations, Mohajer-6 UAVs, and Shahed 171 UAVs are known to be stored from past imagery. Also revealed are at least 8 buildings destroyed at the naval base. 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On March 17, Sentinel-2 imagery@CopernicusEU revealed that 2 bunkers storing UAVs and missiles at the UAV airfield were completely destroyed, along with 3 buildings in the IRGC naval base [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}