Satellite imagery analysis revealed that Iran's missile strike on Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, despite being downplayed by the Trump administration, severely damaged a geodesic dome housing a $15 million US secure communications system.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian attack on an air base in Qatar that’s key to the U.S. military likely hit a geodesic dome housing equipment used by the Americans for secure communications, satellite images analyzed Friday by The Associated Press show.

Before-and-after photographs from a different agency also indicate that a radome inside the dome was destroyed, with some visible damage to a nearby building, likely caused by a bomb-carrying drone